In pursuit of God from six years of age I was always fascinated by mantras in Hinduism and also Jainism. Born a Jain I always asked elders in the family or outside to convey the exact meaning behind mantras. I even asked many Jain Munis the correct meaning of mantras but none could explain anything. Exasperated I contemplated and finally […]
Chanting of any mantra was an inward process, must always be done in the silence of the brain! Mantra chanting must never be vocal, it must always occur in our thought process! When we talked to god, it was always mentally… never vocal! Chanting a mantra vocally does not mean anything. As we cannot see God, we always offered […]
The efficacy of any mantra was understanding, its essence. We could always chant a mantra in our mother tongue or language convenient to us. In my childhood many mantras were given to me, which I could never understand. When I asked the giver (so-called religious or spiritual teachers) the meaning of mantra, they hesitated for they knew nothing. With passage […]
The value of mantras can be realized only by a spiritual aspirant. For religious travelers indulgence in mantras was never necessitated. For reaching God in present life our negating karma to zero was necessitated. Whatever negative karma we indulge in present life could be neutralized but what of negative residual balance of karma from previous manifestations! It took me […]
Mantras were effective only if we understood their inherent inner meaning. All my life in search of God I was given many mantras by various religious gurus. Before indulging in them I wanted to understand the inherent hidden underlying meaning but none of these so-called religious masters explained anything. I did not follow a single mantra the meaning of which […]
Why would we want to chant a mantra if our goal of life was not spiritual? Most prayers, worship offered to God was not accepted by him… how could we assess that chanting a mantra would prove beneficial! In West most did not chant any mantra ever but were totally successful in different walks of life. Mantras must be […]