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Mantra Meditation Flashcards

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Mantra Yoga or Meditation is regarded as one of …?

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Mantra Yoga or Meditation is regarded as one of safest, easiest, and best means of systematically overhauling the patterns of consciousness in order to awaken higher experience and to sustain a higher voltage of energy.

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Mantras are science based on what?

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the realization of the omnipotent power of the eternal sound.

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The regular practice of Mantra helps what?

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psychic and spiritual purification.

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Explain what happens when a mantra is chanted?

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Whenever a mantra is enunciated or chanted in a specific rhythmic manner, its associated sonic waves expand in a specific pattern and after traversing across the layers of energy-particles in the surrounding space reach and penetrate the corresponding cosmic nuclei of divine powers.

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Mantras are

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impulses or rhythms of the consciousness

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Mantra is a _____ vibration?

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SOUND!

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Mantras are used for?

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Mantras used to free the mind from its obsessive nature.

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MananaTrayate iti Mantrah - what does this mean/definition?

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The definition of the word mantra is ‘liberating the mind from its obsessive involvement in tensions, worries, and anxieties’.

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Sound belongs to which element?

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Space element

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The whole work of Yoga is to develop what?

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the ever-expanding space within us or how to enhance our consciousness.

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Yoga says the sound is the basic ingredient of what?

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Energy

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Hence sound is ?

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one of the powerful and easiest tools to experience higher energy and consciousness.

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What do sound vibrations do?

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permeate every cell of your being and allow your mind to dissolve and repose. Every vibration has a frequency. Sound can easily change the behavior of any living being.

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Give evidence of how sound changes the behavior of any living being.

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some types of music bring peace and some make the listener move and dance.

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Mantra is more subtle, for the sound vibrations of mantra work at the Pranic level and Conscious level of a living being. rpt

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Mantra is more subtle, for the sound vibrations of mantra work at the Pranic level and Conscious level of a living being.

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16
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What does Om Namah Shivaya” mean from a religious perspective?

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‘I Salute Shiva’

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What does Om Namah Shivaya” mean from a yogic perspective?

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Om is the seed mantra (Bija mantra) of Ajna Chakra, the Sixth Centre. ‘Na & Ma’ are sounds of the Fifth Centre, Vishuddhi chakra. ‘Shi & Va’ are sounds of the Second Centre, Swadhisthana Chakra. ‘Ya’ is the sound of the Heart, Anahata Chakra.

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What are the sounds or mantras, which correspond to the chakras in the body?

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‘Om Namah Shivaya’.

Om is the seed mantra (Bija mantra) of Ajna Chakra, the Sixth Centre. ‘Na & Ma’ are sounds of the Fifth Centre, Vishuddhi chakra. ‘Shi & Va’ are sounds of the Second Centre, Swadhisthana Chakra. ‘Ya’ is the sound of the Heart, Anahata Chakra.

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In yoga, when you say ‘Om Namah Shivaya’, what is happeing?

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We are actually affecting and altering the behavior of the Shakti in these Subtle Energy Centers.

20
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What are the four Stages of mantra chanting or mantra awareness?

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1) Vaikhari
2) Upanshu
3) Manasik
4) Shravana

21
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What is the first stage of mantra chanting/awareness?

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Vaikhari

22
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What is Vaikhari?

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It’s the initial or first stage of Mantra Chanting.
In this stage a mantra should be chanted aloud. This is especially useful in stabilizing the patterns of consciousness when the mind is disturbed or highly distracted.

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Why should we chant the mantra loud in the the first stage of mantra chanting? Vaikhari?

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Because it’s especially useful in stabilizing the patterns of consciousness when the mind is disturbed or highly distracted.

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What is the second stage of mantra chanting/awareness?

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Upanshu

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How do we do Upanshu?

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It’s whispered repetition.

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How do we do Upanshu?

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In this stage a mantra should be chanted by using lips but without producing any sound.

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What is the third stage of mantra chanting/awareness?

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Manasik

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Describe the Manasik stage?

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Manasik is the mental stage. This is where the practitioner chant or intone the mantra mentally without even using the lips.

The most powerful and subtle form of mantra chanting is on the mental plane.

This is the form which is being widely investigated for its physiological and psychological effects in many laboratories around the world today.

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What/where is the most powerful and subtle form of mantra chanting?

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It’s is on the mental plane.

30
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What is the last stage of mantra chanting/awareness?

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Shravana

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What do we do in the stage of Shravana?

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We just listen. We just listen the inner sound with full awareness and alertness. Complete stop of chanting. Just remaining a witness to all sounds within and listen them carefully without any judgment of good or bad.

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What are some other forms of mantra chanting?

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One of the best and simplest is the repetition of the mantra using a mala. Here a fixed number of rounds of the mala are undertaken each day as instructed by the guru.

This Sadhana is known as Japa Anushthana, where the aspirant makes a resolve to complete the required number of rounds each day.

Another form of mantra repetition is the synchronization of the mantra with the inflowing and outflowing breath.

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