Mantra
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A '''mantra''' is a Pornstar Legends religion/religious Verizon ringtones syllable or Tabithas Toybox poem, typically from the Nextel ringtones Sanskrit language. Their use varies according to the school and philosophy associated with the mantra. They are primarily used as spiritual conduits, words and vibrations that instill one-pointed Club Cytherea concentration in the devotee. Other purposes have included religious ceremonies to accumulate wealth, avoid danger, or eliminate enemies. Mantras originated in Polyphonic ringtones India with Vedic Hinduism and were later adopted by Crissy Moran Buddhism/Buddhists and Cingular Ringtones Jainism/Jains, now popular in various modern forms of spiritual practice which are loosely based on practices of these Eastern religions.
The word ''Mantra'' is a european authorities Sanskrit word consisting of the guides take root ''man-'' "to think" and the suffix ''-tra'' denoting a tool or instrument, hence a literal translation would be "instrument of thought". Mantras are interpreted to be effective as house outside sound (was ticked vibration), to the effect that great emphasis is put on correct pronunciation (resulting in an early development of a science of get citizenship phonetics in India). They are intended to deliver the mind from faster jump illusion and material inclinations. adam kramer Chanting is the process of repeating a mantra.
Introduction
Mantras have some features in common with another ticket spells in general, in that they are a translation of the human will or desire into a form of action. Indeed, Dr. caches arafat Edward Conze, a lawyers if scholar of from beatles Buddhism, frequently translated "mantra" as "spell". As symbols, sounds are seen to effect what they symbolise. Vocal sounds are frequently thought of as having magical powers, or even of representing the words or speech of a unique technology deity. For the authors of the Hindu scriptures of the the strident Upanishads, the syllable fun provides Aum, itself constituting a mantra, represents german term Brahman, the congress prudie godhead, as well as the whole of creation. Merely pronouncing this syllable is to experience the divine in a very direct way. animation the Kukai suggests that all sounds are the voice of the national dowdow trikaya/Dharmakaya stevie ite Buddha i.e. as in Hindu Upanishadic and Yogic thought, these sounds are manifestations of ultimate reality. We should not think that this is peculiar to Eastern culture, however. Words do have a mysterious power to affect us. Accepted scholarly online applications etymology links the word with "manas" meaning "mind" and 'trâna' for protection so that a mantra is something which protects the mind however in practice we will see that mantra is considered to do far more than simply protect the mind.
For many cultures it is the written letters that have power the Hebrew Kabbalah for instance, or the Anglo-Saxon Runes. Letters can have an oracular function even. But in India special conditions applied that meant that writing was very definitely inferior to the spoken word. The Brahmins were the priestly caste of the Aryan peoples. It was they that preserved the holy writings initially the Vedas, but later also the Upanishads. For years, they were the only ones who knew the mantras or sacred formulas that had to be chanted at every important occasion. However, with the advent of egalitarian Hindu schools of Yoga, Vedanta, Tantra and Bhakti, it is now the case that intra-family and community mantras are passed on freely as part of generally practiced Hindu religion. Such was the influence of the more orthodox attitude of the elite nature of mantra knowledge that even the Buddhists, who repudiated the whole idea of caste, and of the efficacy of the old rituals, called themselves the shravakas, that is "the hearers". A wise person in India was one who had "heard much".'''Mantras''' then are ''sound symbols''. What they symbolise, and how they function depends on the context, and the mind of the person repeating them. Studies in sound symbolism suggest that vocal sounds have meaning whether we are aware of it or not. And indeed that there can be multiple layers of symbolism associated with each sound. So even if we do not understand them, mantras are no simply meaningless mumbo jumbo no vocal utterance is entirely without meaning. We can look at mantra is a range of different contexts to see what they can mean in those contexts: Om may mean something quite different to a Hindu and a Tibetan Buddhism/Tibetan Buddhist. The analysis of Kukai, a 9th century Japan/Japanese Buddhist is revealing. See below.
While Hindu tantras eventually came to see the letters as well as the sounds as representatives of the divine, it was when Buddhism travelled to China that a major shift in emphasis towards writing came about. China lacked a unifying, ecclesiastic language like Sanskrit, and achieved its cultural unity by having a written language that was flexible in pronunciation but more precise in terms of the concepts that each character represented. In fact the Indians had several scripts which were all equally serviceable for writing Sanskrit. Hence the Chinese prized written language much more highly than did the Indian Buddhist missionaries, and the writing of mantras became a spiritual practice in its own right. So that whereas Brahmins had been very strict on correct pronunciation, the Chinese, and indeed other Far-Eastern Buddhists were less concerned with this than correctly writing something down. The practice of writing mantras, and copying texts as a spiritual practice, became very refined in Japan, and the writing in the Siddham script in which the Sanskrit of many Buddhist Sutras were written is only really seen in Japan nowadays. However, written mantra-repetition in Hindu practices, with Sanskrit in any number of scripts, is well-known to many sects in India as well.
Mantra in Hinduism
Mantras was originally conceived in the great Hindu scriptures known as the Vedas. Within practically all Hindu scriptures, the writing is formed in painstakingly crafted two line "shlokas" and most mantras follow this pattern, although mantras are often found in single line or even single word combinations.
Image:Aum.png/160px/right/thumb/Aum
The most basic mantra is ''Aum'', which in Hinduism is known as the "pranava mantra," the source of all mantras. The philosophy behind this is the Hindu idea of nama-rupa (name-form), which supposes that all things, ideas or entities in existence, within the phenomenological cosmos, have name and form of some sort. The most basic name and form is the primordial vibration of Aum, as it is the first manifested nama-rupa of Brahman, the unmanifest reality/unreality. Essentially, before existence and beyond existence is only One reality, Brahman, and the first manifestation of Brahman in existence is Aum. For this reason, Aum is considered to be the most fundamental and powerful mantra, and thus is prefixed and suffixed to all Hindu prayers. While some mantras may invoke individual Gods or principles, the most fundamental mantras, like 'Aum,' the 'Shanti Mantra,' the 'Gayatri Mantra' and others all ultimately focus on the One reality.
In the Hindu tantras the universe is sound. The supreme (para) brings forth existence through the Word (Shabda). Creation consists of vibrations at various frequencies and amplitudes giving rise to the phenomena of the world. The purest vibrations are the var.na, the imperishable letters which are revealed to us, imperfectly as the audible sounds and visible forms.
Var.nas are the atoms of sound. A complex symbolic association was built up between letters and the elements, gods, signs of the zodiac, parts of the body letters became rich in these associations. For example in the Aitrareya-aranya-Upanishad we find:
:"The mute consonants represent the earth, the sibilants the sky, the vowels heaven. The mute consonants represent fire, the sibilants air, the vowels the sun? The mute consonants represent the eye, the sibilants the ear, the vowels the mind"
In effect each letter became a mantra and the language of the Vedas, Sanskrit, corresponds profoundly to the nature of things. Thus the Vedas come to represent reality itself. The seed syllable Om represents the underlying unity of reality, which is Brahman.
=Japa=
Japa was a concept of the Vedic sages that incorporates mantras as one of the main forms of puja, or worship, whose ultimate end is seen as moksha/liberation. Essentially, japa means repetition, and has become an established practice of all Hindu streams, from the various Yoga to Tantra. It involves repetition of a mantra over and over again, usually in cycles of auspicious numbers (in multiples of three), the most popular being 108. For this reason, Hindu malas (bead necklaces) developed, containing 108 beads and a head "meru" bead. The devotee performing japa using his/her fingers counts each bead as he/she repeats the chosen mantra. Having reached 108 repetitions, if he/she wishes to continue another cycle of mantras, the devotee must turn the mala around without crossing the "meru" bead and repeat.
It is said that through japa the devotee attains one-pointedness, or extreme focus, on the chosen deity or principle idea of the mantra. The vibrations and sounds of the mantra are considered extremely important, and thus reverberations of the sound are supposed to awaken the prana or spiritual life force and even stimulate chakras according to many Hindu schools of thought.
Any shloka from holy Hindu texts like the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Yoga Sutra, even the Mahabharata and Ramayana, are considered powerful enough to be repeated to great effect, and have therefore the status of a mantra.
A very common mantra is formed by taking a deity's name and saluting it in such a manner: "Aum namah " or "Aum Jai (Hail!) " or several such permutations. Common examples are "Aum namah Shivaya" (Aum to Lord Shiva), "Aum namah Narayana"; or "Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevãya," (Salutations to the Universal God Vishnu), "Aum Shri Ganeshaya Namah" (Aum to Shree Ganesh) and "Jai Ma Kali" and "Aum Hrim Chandikãyai Namah." (i.e., mantras to Devi.)
=Some Hindu mantras=
The most representative mantra of all the Hindu mantras is the famed Gayatri Mantra:
:ॐ भूर्भुवस्व: /
:तत् सवितूर्वरेण्यम् /
:भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि /
:धियो यो न: प्रचोदयात्
: ''Om Bhūr Buvaḥ Svaḥ''
: ''Tat Savitur Vareṇyaṃ''
: ''Bhargo Devasya Dhīmahi''
: ''Dhiyo Yo Naḥ Pracodayāt''
It is considered one of the most universal of all Hindu mantras, invoking the universal Brahman as the principle of knowledge and the illumination of the primordial Sun.
=Lead me from Ignorance to Truth=
āsato ṃā sat gamayā / tamaso ṃā jyotir gamayā / ṃrityor-ṃā āmritam gamayā / Om śānti śānti śāntiḥ
"from non-being to being lead me, from darkness to light lead me, from death to immortality lead me."
=Hare Krishna Mantra=
A very famous mantra is that created by Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, a great Vaishnava bhakta (loving devotee) of the Hindu Lord Vishnu in the 15th century. It is beloved by most Hindus as very powerful, Vaishnavs and Shaivaites alike:
: ''Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare''
: ''Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare''
When A.C. Bhaktivedanta brought his ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) brand of Hindu Vaishnavism to the West, he framed the "Hare Krishna" mantra as the sole mantra for moksha/liberation and his sect is now commonly known in the West by the name "Hare Krishnas."
=The shanti mantras=
: ॐ सह नाववतु /
: सह नौ भुनक्तु /
: सह वीर्यं करवावहै /
: तेजस्विनावधीतमस्तु /
: मा विद्विषावहै //
: ''Om saha naavavatu''
: ''Saha nau bhunaktu''
: ''Saha viiryan karavaavahai''
: ''Tejasvi naavadhiitamastu''
: ''Maa vidvishhaavahai''
: May we be protected together.
: May we be nourished together.
: May we work together with great vigor.
: May our study be enlightening
: May no obstacle arise between us.
: ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः
: ''Om shaantih shaantih shaantih''
: Om peace, peace, peace.
: Black Yajurveda Taittiriya Upanishad 2.2.2
=Universal prayer=
: ''Sarveśāam Svastir Bhavatu''
: ''Sarveśām Sāntir Bhavatu''
: ''Sarveśām Pūṛṇam Bhavatu''
: ''Sarveśām ṃangalam Bhavatu''
(May good befall all, May there be peace for all, May all be fit for perfection, and May all experience that which is auspicious.)
: ''Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaha''
: ''Sarve Santu ṇirāmayaha''
: ''Sarve Badrāṇi Pasyantu''
: ''ṃā Kascidh-dhuhkha Bhāga-Bhavet''
(Om, May all be happy. May all be healthy. May we all experience what is good and let no one suffer. Om, Peace, Peace, Peace!)
=Other examples=
*''Tat Twam Asi'' "Thou Are That"
*''Tryambakam.''
*''Surya Namaskara''
=The Hindu Bija Mantra=
In Hinduism the concept of mantra as mystical sounds was carried to its logical conclusion in "seed" (Sanskrit ''bija'') mantras that have no precise meaning but instead are thought to carry within their sounds connections to various spiritual principles and currents. For example, worship of the Mother Goddess Kali, in mantra form, is famously reduced to the powerful Bija mantras of the Shakta tradition of Hinduism:
: ''Aum Kreeng Kreeng Kreeng Hoong Hoong Hreeng Hreeng''
: ''Dakshina Kalike''
: ''Kreeng Kreeng Kreeng Hoong Hoong Hreeng Hreeng Swaha''
Of course, the most revered of all Bija mantras is Aum/Om/Aum.
The Bija mantra is part of the Hindu monist understanding that while reality manifests itself as many/multiple, it is ultimately one.
Mantra in Buddhism
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A '''mantra''' is a Pornstar Legends religion/religious Verizon ringtones syllable or Tabithas Toybox poem, typically from the Nextel ringtones Sanskrit language. Their use varies according to the school and philosophy associated with the mantra. They are primarily used as spiritual conduits, words and vibrations that instill one-pointed Club Cytherea concentration in the devotee. Other purposes have included religious ceremonies to accumulate wealth, avoid danger, or eliminate enemies. Mantras originated in Polyphonic ringtones India with Vedic Hinduism and were later adopted by Crissy Moran Buddhism/Buddhists and Cingular Ringtones Jainism/Jains, now popular in various modern forms of spiritual practice which are loosely based on practices of these Eastern religions.
The word ''Mantra'' is a european authorities Sanskrit word consisting of the guides take root ''man-'' "to think" and the suffix ''-tra'' denoting a tool or instrument, hence a literal translation would be "instrument of thought". Mantras are interpreted to be effective as house outside sound (was ticked vibration), to the effect that great emphasis is put on correct pronunciation (resulting in an early development of a science of get citizenship phonetics in India). They are intended to deliver the mind from faster jump illusion and material inclinations. adam kramer Chanting is the process of repeating a mantra.
Introduction
Mantras have some features in common with another ticket spells in general, in that they are a translation of the human will or desire into a form of action. Indeed, Dr. caches arafat Edward Conze, a lawyers if scholar of from beatles Buddhism, frequently translated "mantra" as "spell". As symbols, sounds are seen to effect what they symbolise. Vocal sounds are frequently thought of as having magical powers, or even of representing the words or speech of a unique technology deity. For the authors of the Hindu scriptures of the the strident Upanishads, the syllable fun provides Aum, itself constituting a mantra, represents german term Brahman, the congress prudie godhead, as well as the whole of creation. Merely pronouncing this syllable is to experience the divine in a very direct way. animation the Kukai suggests that all sounds are the voice of the national dowdow trikaya/Dharmakaya stevie ite Buddha i.e. as in Hindu Upanishadic and Yogic thought, these sounds are manifestations of ultimate reality. We should not think that this is peculiar to Eastern culture, however. Words do have a mysterious power to affect us. Accepted scholarly online applications etymology links the word with "manas" meaning "mind" and 'trâna' for protection so that a mantra is something which protects the mind however in practice we will see that mantra is considered to do far more than simply protect the mind.
For many cultures it is the written letters that have power the Hebrew Kabbalah for instance, or the Anglo-Saxon Runes. Letters can have an oracular function even. But in India special conditions applied that meant that writing was very definitely inferior to the spoken word. The Brahmins were the priestly caste of the Aryan peoples. It was they that preserved the holy writings initially the Vedas, but later also the Upanishads. For years, they were the only ones who knew the mantras or sacred formulas that had to be chanted at every important occasion. However, with the advent of egalitarian Hindu schools of Yoga, Vedanta, Tantra and Bhakti, it is now the case that intra-family and community mantras are passed on freely as part of generally practiced Hindu religion. Such was the influence of the more orthodox attitude of the elite nature of mantra knowledge that even the Buddhists, who repudiated the whole idea of caste, and of the efficacy of the old rituals, called themselves the shravakas, that is "the hearers". A wise person in India was one who had "heard much".'''Mantras''' then are ''sound symbols''. What they symbolise, and how they function depends on the context, and the mind of the person repeating them. Studies in sound symbolism suggest that vocal sounds have meaning whether we are aware of it or not. And indeed that there can be multiple layers of symbolism associated with each sound. So even if we do not understand them, mantras are no simply meaningless mumbo jumbo no vocal utterance is entirely without meaning. We can look at mantra is a range of different contexts to see what they can mean in those contexts: Om may mean something quite different to a Hindu and a Tibetan Buddhism/Tibetan Buddhist. The analysis of Kukai, a 9th century Japan/Japanese Buddhist is revealing. See below.
While Hindu tantras eventually came to see the letters as well as the sounds as representatives of the divine, it was when Buddhism travelled to China that a major shift in emphasis towards writing came about. China lacked a unifying, ecclesiastic language like Sanskrit, and achieved its cultural unity by having a written language that was flexible in pronunciation but more precise in terms of the concepts that each character represented. In fact the Indians had several scripts which were all equally serviceable for writing Sanskrit. Hence the Chinese prized written language much more highly than did the Indian Buddhist missionaries, and the writing of mantras became a spiritual practice in its own right. So that whereas Brahmins had been very strict on correct pronunciation, the Chinese, and indeed other Far-Eastern Buddhists were less concerned with this than correctly writing something down. The practice of writing mantras, and copying texts as a spiritual practice, became very refined in Japan, and the writing in the Siddham script in which the Sanskrit of many Buddhist Sutras were written is only really seen in Japan nowadays. However, written mantra-repetition in Hindu practices, with Sanskrit in any number of scripts, is well-known to many sects in India as well.
Mantra in Hinduism
Mantras was originally conceived in the great Hindu scriptures known as the Vedas. Within practically all Hindu scriptures, the writing is formed in painstakingly crafted two line "shlokas" and most mantras follow this pattern, although mantras are often found in single line or even single word combinations.
Image:Aum.png/160px/right/thumb/Aum
The most basic mantra is ''Aum'', which in Hinduism is known as the "pranava mantra," the source of all mantras. The philosophy behind this is the Hindu idea of nama-rupa (name-form), which supposes that all things, ideas or entities in existence, within the phenomenological cosmos, have name and form of some sort. The most basic name and form is the primordial vibration of Aum, as it is the first manifested nama-rupa of Brahman, the unmanifest reality/unreality. Essentially, before existence and beyond existence is only One reality, Brahman, and the first manifestation of Brahman in existence is Aum. For this reason, Aum is considered to be the most fundamental and powerful mantra, and thus is prefixed and suffixed to all Hindu prayers. While some mantras may invoke individual Gods or principles, the most fundamental mantras, like 'Aum,' the 'Shanti Mantra,' the 'Gayatri Mantra' and others all ultimately focus on the One reality.
In the Hindu tantras the universe is sound. The supreme (para) brings forth existence through the Word (Shabda). Creation consists of vibrations at various frequencies and amplitudes giving rise to the phenomena of the world. The purest vibrations are the var.na, the imperishable letters which are revealed to us, imperfectly as the audible sounds and visible forms.
Var.nas are the atoms of sound. A complex symbolic association was built up between letters and the elements, gods, signs of the zodiac, parts of the body letters became rich in these associations. For example in the Aitrareya-aranya-Upanishad we find:
:"The mute consonants represent the earth, the sibilants the sky, the vowels heaven. The mute consonants represent fire, the sibilants air, the vowels the sun? The mute consonants represent the eye, the sibilants the ear, the vowels the mind"
In effect each letter became a mantra and the language of the Vedas, Sanskrit, corresponds profoundly to the nature of things. Thus the Vedas come to represent reality itself. The seed syllable Om represents the underlying unity of reality, which is Brahman.
=Japa=
Japa was a concept of the Vedic sages that incorporates mantras as one of the main forms of puja, or worship, whose ultimate end is seen as moksha/liberation. Essentially, japa means repetition, and has become an established practice of all Hindu streams, from the various Yoga to Tantra. It involves repetition of a mantra over and over again, usually in cycles of auspicious numbers (in multiples of three), the most popular being 108. For this reason, Hindu malas (bead necklaces) developed, containing 108 beads and a head "meru" bead. The devotee performing japa using his/her fingers counts each bead as he/she repeats the chosen mantra. Having reached 108 repetitions, if he/she wishes to continue another cycle of mantras, the devotee must turn the mala around without crossing the "meru" bead and repeat.
It is said that through japa the devotee attains one-pointedness, or extreme focus, on the chosen deity or principle idea of the mantra. The vibrations and sounds of the mantra are considered extremely important, and thus reverberations of the sound are supposed to awaken the prana or spiritual life force and even stimulate chakras according to many Hindu schools of thought.
Any shloka from holy Hindu texts like the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Yoga Sutra, even the Mahabharata and Ramayana, are considered powerful enough to be repeated to great effect, and have therefore the status of a mantra.
A very common mantra is formed by taking a deity's name and saluting it in such a manner: "Aum namah " or "Aum Jai (Hail!) " or several such permutations. Common examples are "Aum namah Shivaya" (Aum to Lord Shiva), "Aum namah Narayana"; or "Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevãya," (Salutations to the Universal God Vishnu), "Aum Shri Ganeshaya Namah" (Aum to Shree Ganesh) and "Jai Ma Kali" and "Aum Hrim Chandikãyai Namah." (i.e., mantras to Devi.)
=Some Hindu mantras=
The most representative mantra of all the Hindu mantras is the famed Gayatri Mantra:
:ॐ भूर्भुवस्व: /
:तत् सवितूर्वरेण्यम् /
:भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि /
:धियो यो न: प्रचोदयात्
: ''Om Bhūr Buvaḥ Svaḥ''
: ''Tat Savitur Vareṇyaṃ''
: ''Bhargo Devasya Dhīmahi''
: ''Dhiyo Yo Naḥ Pracodayāt''
It is considered one of the most universal of all Hindu mantras, invoking the universal Brahman as the principle of knowledge and the illumination of the primordial Sun.
=Lead me from Ignorance to Truth=
āsato ṃā sat gamayā / tamaso ṃā jyotir gamayā / ṃrityor-ṃā āmritam gamayā / Om śānti śānti śāntiḥ
"from non-being to being lead me, from darkness to light lead me, from death to immortality lead me."
=Hare Krishna Mantra=
A very famous mantra is that created by Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, a great Vaishnava bhakta (loving devotee) of the Hindu Lord Vishnu in the 15th century. It is beloved by most Hindus as very powerful, Vaishnavs and Shaivaites alike:
: ''Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare''
: ''Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare''
When A.C. Bhaktivedanta brought his ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) brand of Hindu Vaishnavism to the West, he framed the "Hare Krishna" mantra as the sole mantra for moksha/liberation and his sect is now commonly known in the West by the name "Hare Krishnas."
=The shanti mantras=
: ॐ सह नाववतु /
: सह नौ भुनक्तु /
: सह वीर्यं करवावहै /
: तेजस्विनावधीतमस्तु /
: मा विद्विषावहै //
: ''Om saha naavavatu''
: ''Saha nau bhunaktu''
: ''Saha viiryan karavaavahai''
: ''Tejasvi naavadhiitamastu''
: ''Maa vidvishhaavahai''
: May we be protected together.
: May we be nourished together.
: May we work together with great vigor.
: May our study be enlightening
: May no obstacle arise between us.
: ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः
: ''Om shaantih shaantih shaantih''
: Om peace, peace, peace.
: Black Yajurveda Taittiriya Upanishad 2.2.2
=Universal prayer=
: ''Sarveśāam Svastir Bhavatu''
: ''Sarveśām Sāntir Bhavatu''
: ''Sarveśām Pūṛṇam Bhavatu''
: ''Sarveśām ṃangalam Bhavatu''
(May good befall all, May there be peace for all, May all be fit for perfection, and May all experience that which is auspicious.)
: ''Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaha''
: ''Sarve Santu ṇirāmayaha''
: ''Sarve Badrāṇi Pasyantu''
: ''ṃā Kascidh-dhuhkha Bhāga-Bhavet''
(Om, May all be happy. May all be healthy. May we all experience what is good and let no one suffer. Om, Peace, Peace, Peace!)
=Other examples=
*''Tat Twam Asi'' "Thou Are That"
*''Tryambakam.''
*''Surya Namaskara''
=The Hindu Bija Mantra=
In Hinduism the concept of mantra as mystical sounds was carried to its logical conclusion in "seed" (Sanskrit ''bija'') mantras that have no precise meaning but instead are thought to carry within their sounds connections to various spiritual principles and currents. For example, worship of the Mother Goddess Kali, in mantra form, is famously reduced to the powerful Bija mantras of the Shakta tradition of Hinduism:
: ''Aum Kreeng Kreeng Kreeng Hoong Hoong Hreeng Hreeng''
: ''Dakshina Kalike''
: ''Kreeng Kreeng Kreeng Hoong Hoong Hreeng Hreeng Swaha''
Of course, the most revered of all Bija mantras is Aum/Om/Aum.
The Bija mantra is part of the Hindu monist understanding that while reality manifests itself as many/multiple, it is ultimately one.
Mantra in Buddhism
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Tag: Mysticism
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