Mantras for healing, wellbeing and spiritual liberation

Dhanavantari Mantra for healing and general health.

Om Namo Bhagwate Vasudevaya Dhanvantaraye Amrita Kalash Hastaya Sarva Maya Vinashanaya Trailoka Nathaya Sri Mahavishnave Namah.

Meaning: Om, I bow to Lord Dhanvantari, the divine physician holding the nectar of immortality, who removes all diseases and fears. Continue reading

What does Sadhana mean

And why should I have a daily sadhana?

What is the meaning of sadhana? Sadhana originates from the root sadh meaning to accomplish, to attain, or going straight to a goal. It acts as a spiritual practice and is a tool for personal transformation, allowing the sadhaka to work on themselves to achieve their life purpose. Continue reading

Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti

Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti is a powerful Vedic mantra or sacred sound with healing vibrations that call for cosmic peace. It is chanted aloud at the start of a meditation to relax and still the mind and body. It is chanted aloud as a peace invocation after all Hindu prayers. It is also used like a greeting or parting salutation. Continue reading

The Mother Goddess takes care of all her children

Dear ones, I have cervical spinal stenosis and I had to have a procedure. I was in the hospital and I came home the next day.

What I want to share with you is that while it was being performed, I was awake. It was done with local anesthesia and I was aware throughout. It was terribly painful, when I felt the needle on my spine. What was wonderful was that they played Devi Kavach. Continue reading

Who can practice Tantra Shastra?

Any one of us can practice Tantra Shastra. It is for those, who are sincere and genuine and who surrender themselves to Shakti.

In Tantra Shastra, every practice is combined and adjusted with the attitudes and behaviors of an average person. One follows the natural process as one does in daily life. Awakening the Goddess does not mean abstinence and rigidity in one’s life. Continue reading

Ma Kali – the protectress

Ma Kali’s essence is the fierce transformative power of the Divine Feminine, embodying time, destruction, and liberation by annihilating illusion (Maya). She destroys the ego to reveal the ultimate paradox of terrifying power and unconditional maternal love that purifies and renews. She represents the primal power and she destroys negativity and ignorance by granting wisdom. Continue reading

What does the circle represent in the Yantra?

The bondage in life is represented by the circle of the Yantra, the cyclical continuation of life and death. When one becomes free from the influences of the senses, then one can identify with one’s inner nature. One becomes like the tortoise, which has withdrawn itself into its shell. The sadhana of Pratyahara enables one to achieve this state. Continue reading

Liberate your mind through the Shakti of the mantra

There are eight, total primary Bija mantra according to the Mantra Yoga Samhita. Aum, Aim Hrim, Klim, Krim, Shrim, Trim and Strim. The Shakti Bija mantras are considered the most important of all mantras for meditation, worship of deities, energizing prana or for healing purposes. Continue reading

Mantra Meditative Awareness

Originally, the mantra system one needed to identify with the vibration as much as possible. That is why mantras are always repeated, not chanted just once. If for half an hour, one keeps repeating Aum, Aum, Aum or Soham, Soham, Soham and nothing exists beyond this repetition. When the mantra is sustained over a period of time in this manner, for five minutes, ten minutes or fifteen minutes, then one merges one’s consciousness in the feeling, chanting and repetition of the mantra and one begins to identify with vibrations that one is creating while chanting the mantra. This is called Mantra Meditative Awareness.

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Transform yourself through Brahmari Sadhana

Brahmari Sadhana is the practice of Brahmari pranayama, with the mantra Soham. In Sanskrit Brahmari is bee, and the pranayama is akin to a bee humming. It comes from the humming sound made while exhaling. Brahmari pranayama is the life-force that vibrates the whole brain by control of the pituitary gland. Continue reading