Nama Article- 23-12-08

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Scientific explanation of word mantra By Swami Sivananda

 

 

Japa is the repetition of any mantra or name of the Lord.

 

Mantra Yoga is an exact science. " Mananat trayate iti mantrah - by the manana

(constant thinking or recollection) of which one is protected or is released

from the round of births and deaths, is mantra. " That is called mantra by the

meditation (manana) on which the jiva or the individual soul attains freedom

from sin, enjoyment in heaven and final liberation, and by the aid of which it

attains in full the fourfold fruit (chaturvarga), i.e., dharma, artha, kama and

moksha. A mantra is so called because it is achieved by the mental process. The

first syllable of the word mantra comes from root 'man' meaning 'to think' and

'tra' from 'trai' meaning 'to protect' or 'free' from the bondage of samsara or

the phenomenal world.

 

The mantra is a mass of radiant tejas or energy. Mantra awakens supernatural

powers. A mantra is divinity. It is divine power or daiva sakti manifesting in a

sound body. The mantra itself is devata (deity).

 

Sounds are vibrations. They give rise to definite forms. Each sound produces a

form in the invisible world, and combinations of sound create complicated

shapes. Thus repeated singing of the name of the Lord builds up gradually the

form of the devata or the special manifestation of the deity whom you seek to

worship, and this acts as a focus to concentrate the benign influence of the

divine being, which radiating from the centre, penetrates the worshipper.

 

The repetition of the panchakshara mantra, 'Om Namah Sivaya' produces the form

of Lord Siva. The repetition of 'Om Namo Narayanaya,' the ashtakshara mantra of

Vishnu, produces the form of Vishnu.

 

There is the dictum of the Mimamsa philosophers that the gods do not exist apart

from the mantras (Mantratmako devah). This really means that when a particular

mantra appropriated to a particular god is properly recited, the vibrations so

set up create in the higher planes a special form which that God en-souls for

the time being.

 

The sacred mantra or the divine name is a vital symbol of the supreme divinity

directly revealed in the innermost depths of divine communion to the sages of

Self-realisation in the hoary Vedic and Upanishadic times.

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

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