Guest guest Posted November 9, 2004 Report Share Posted November 9, 2004 Dear LIST I have a query " Purascharana is the discipline in which we repeat our chosen mantra as many 100,000 times as there are syllables in the mantra. Eg. " Namah Shivaya " has 5 syllables and so to complete a Purascharana of this Mantra one has to repeat the Mantra 500,000 times When i thought i would do Purascharana on the Ramakrishna Mantra i was initiated with (which also has 5 syllables) I realized i would have to stretch it out over several weeks or even months, depending on the amount of times i repeated the Mantra each day I mention all this because i would like to know how it is written that people like the Supremely REvered Holy Mother was able to repeat Her Mantra 10 million times a day (1 Crore times) It is physically impossible. i decided to repeat my Mantra 12,500 times a day for 38 days which works out to 500,000. 12,500 times a day took 3-4 hours depending on how fast and furious and devoted i wished to say it. (The less the devotion the faster it was!) BUt nothing less than 3 hours however fast i might say the mantra. Even that was a considerable effort on my part and i wondered whether i was cut out to completing the Purascharana. at the most one can say the mantra 100,000 times a day, that is saying it continously through out the day even if we are attending to our other duties like the Holy Mother used to do. 1 Crore times and all that is mere exaggeration or am i wrong??? any thoughts? pranaams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 Ramakrishna , " jairam seshadri " <jairamseshadri@h...> wrote: > > > at the most one can say the mantra 100,000 times a day, that is saying it > continously through out the day even if we are attending to our other duties > like the Holy Mother used to do. > > 1 Crore times and all that is mere exaggeration > > or am i wrong??? > > > any thoughts? > Namaste, If you stick to the literal meaning, you are right; if you are seeking the spiritual meaning you are wrong! In the state of Consciousness of vishvaruupa darshana, which Mother (and Thakur) were in often, " one eats with a thousand mouths, sees with thousand eyes " - so why not purashcharana with a million minds? (also mental japa is 1000 times verbal japa). Regards, Sunder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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