To Puneet about Sadhana for health

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Puneet wrote:

I'm new to the group.For the past year my health has been verybad.Can

someone suggest to me a sadhana for improving health?I've tried

chanting the Maha Mritunjaya Mantra but got no benefit.

Dear Puneet ~ welcome to the group. Suddenly we are getting quite a

few new people, and each new person adds to and enriches all of us. I

too have very bad health ... I have several chronic illnesses. First

let me say, that I realize I have provided what may seem an

overwhelming amount of information, so please know it is only to

provide an answer to your question ... and you don't have to read it

all at once.

My sister also has many of the same illnesses. Recently she told me

that, at one time when she was visiting the Mandir, and walking along

talking with Swamiji, she asked him your same question, what could she

do for her health. She was already sick then, but had no diagnosis and

over the years has become progressively more ill.

She told me that Swamiji told her to recite the 9 Planets Mantras. So

you could not have picked a better time to join the Devi Mandir group

because we are doing a year long sankalpa involving the 9 Planets. My

sister told me that Swamiji said to her that, just as reciting the 9

Planets Mantras help to heal the Earth (which is what our sankalpa is

about), they also help to heal our bodies. I have recently written to

Swamiji to ask him if he could tell us something about this.

But I have found, even though I cannot chant as many malas of mantras

as others, and I cannot make a havan kund for the fire, that saying

these mantras is, in some way, helping me. I still have terrible

chronic pain, but for the time when I am reciting the mantras, I feel

only peace and relaxation. I usually do my recitation reclining in

bed, and often I have to switch from reciting out loud to reciting

silently, because even the movement of my mouth will cause my pain to

become worse. (I do one Planet a day according to the day associated

with the planet ... don't worry, all of this information is on our

page. Also, when we were doing the Chandi Path as a group

sankalpa, I wrote to Swamiji to tell him of my illness and ask if it

would be alright for me to chant while reclining in bed, and he said

yes. What a loving guru to take our individual circumstances into

account).

When you go to the Page where each Mantra is given for the

Planet it is associated with, don't let the numbers scare you off. I

have been scared off a number of times because what I am able to do

is so limited, if I compare myself to others in the group. I am

learning that even if I can only manage one mala, that one mala

matters, and as I have gone along, the number of malas I do each day

has grown (though I seem to have hit a temporary ceiling at 5). I

also have some additional information I can send to you via email,

with background about the meanings of the planets if you'd like. Here

is the link to the page. Scroll down almost to the bottom, and you'll

find the Mother Earth Sankalpa, which is a word document you can

print out.

Another thing you can do to participate in this sankalpa that would be

very beneficial would be to get the 9 Planet Mantra CD from Shree

Maa's website. If nothing else, the sweet lilting voice of our

Blessed Mother singing the mantras will seep into your skin and bones

and cells as well as your mind, heart and soul. Here is the link to

the homepage, and when you are there, , Our

Bookstore. http://www.shreemaa.org/

I had been told to chant/listen, etc. to the Maha Mritunjaya Mantra

for my health, and I didn't see any benefit deriving from it either.

Yet, as part of our Saturday prayer group sankalpa, we recite the MM

Mantra, as we call it, 21 times for the names on the prayer list. I

feel I have perhaps already overwhelmed you with so much information,

so I won't go into the prayer list too. If you want to know about it,

there is a folder, "Prayer Club List of the Month," about 2/3 down on

the list.

If there is anything you don't understand, just post questions to the

group and Nanda or Parvati or someone will be able to answer them.

Again, welcome ... there are a number of us here who are quite ill, so you are not alone.

Jai Maa , Jai Swamiji ~ Linda

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was visiting the Mandir, and walking along talking with Swamiji, she

asked him your same question, what could she do for her health. She

was already sick then, but had no diagnosis and over the years has

become progressively more ill. She told me that Swamiji told her to

recite the 9 Planets Mantras. So you could not have picked a better

time to join the Devi Mandir group because we are doing a year long

sankalpa involving the 9 Planets. My sister told me that Swamiji said

to her that, just as reciting the 9 Planets Mantras help to heal the

Earth (which is what our sankalpa is about), they also help to heal

our bodies. I have recently written to Swamiji to ask him if he could

tell us something about this. But I have found, even though I cannot

chant as many malas of mantras as others, and I cannot make a havan

kund for the fire, that saying these mantras is, in some way, helping

me. I still have

terrible chronic pain, but for the time when I am reciting the

mantras, I feel only peace and relaxation. I usually do my recitation

reclining in bed, and often I have to switch from reciting out loud to

reciting silently, because even the movement of my mouth will cause my

pain to become worse. (I do one Planet a day according to the day

associated with the planet ... don't worry, all of this information

is on our page. Also, when we were doing the Chandi Path as a

group sankalpa, I wrote to Swamiji to tell him of my illness and ask

if it would be alright for me to chant while reclining in bed, and he

said yes. What a loving guru to take our individual circumstances into

account). When you go to the Page where each Mantra is given

for the Planet it is associated with, don't let the numbers scare you

off. I have been scared off a number of times because what I am able

to do is so limited, if I compare

myself to others in the group. I am learning that even if I can only

manage one mala, that one mala matters, and as I have gone along, the

number of malas I do each day has grown (though I seem to have hit a

temporary ceiling at 5). I also have some additional information I

can send to you via email, with background about the meanings of the

planets if you'd like. Here is the link to the page. Scroll down

almost to the bottom, and you'll find the Mother Earth Sankalpa,

which is a word document you can print out.

Another thing you

can do to participate in this sankalpa that would be very beneficial

would be to get the 9 Planet Mantra CD from Shree Maa's website. If

nothing else, the sweet lilting voice of our Blessed Mother singing

the mantras will seep into your skin and bones and cells as well as

your mind, heart and soul. Here is the link to the homepage, and when

you are there, , Our Bookstore.

http://www.shreemaa.org/ I had been told to chant/listen, etc. to

the Maha Mritunjaya Mantra for my health, and I didn't see any

benefit deriving from it either. Yet, as part of our Saturday prayer

group sankalpa, we recite the MM Mantra, as we call it, 21 times for

the names on the prayer list. I feel I have perhaps already

overwhelmed you with so much information, so I won't go into the

prayer list too. If you want to know about it, there is a folder,

"Prayer Club List of the Month," about 2/3 down on the list.

If there is

anything you don't understand, just post questions to the group and

Nanda or Parvati or someone will be

able to answer them. Again, welcome ... there are a number of us

here who are quite ill, so you are not alone. Jai Maa , Jai Swamiji ~

Linda

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