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Words define our reality.
Mantras and sutras are sacred sounds that connect us with the infinite.
William Shakespeare invented 25,000
words, which are now part of our regular
vocabulary, thus broadening our abilities
to perceive our world in a unique and
much broader way.
In some cultures, certain words, like those
Sanskrit words used in the Ancient India,
were used to connect a person with
ultimate reality. This unique language
appears in the earliest Upanishads (7th-8th
century b.c.e.). It has also been used as a way to converse with God, or the great mystery of causation and origination, the pervasive pure consciousness that informs all experiences.
A mantra is a sound that does not mean
anything but which helps you transcend
the limitations of thought and move to a
state of ascending awareness. An example
is "Om" which is used to represent the
sound of creation, the primeval vibration
that is believed to have created all the
other vibratory phenomena we call a
universe. By sitting still and repeating this
word with full attention, you transcend the
limitations of the senses, the limitations of
your identifications, and the limitations of
your sequential thought processes. You
attain stillness, poise, and equanimity over
time because the word comes to inform
your awareness.
A sutra is a sound as well, but it is also a
word; it is something that has meaning.
The word "sutra" itself means a stitch; it
stitches the finite being with its infinite
capacity. The word "suture" that is used in
English to describe a stitch by a surgeon
comes from this word.
Sutras abound in Sanskrit, and in fact the
entire language of Sanskrit can be said to
have been invented as a way for a person
to communicate with the divine. It is even
believed that saying the word has an
impact on the chakras, energy vortexes in
the each of the subtle bodies, and the
nadis , the subtle nerves. Their purpose is
to conduct prana or vital force through the
subtle bodies.
Many cryptic traditions refer to a number
of discrete planes of existence, each with
its own parallel "vehicle" of consciousness.
Instead of a single physical body housing
the soul, we have a series of "bodies" or
"vehicles of consciousness". All these
planes and bodies are connected by a
pervasive consciousness. Thus by using a
sacred language, we not only connect with
divinity, but with our own subtle powers
that exist in an invisible way.
William Shakespeare invented 25,000
words, which are now part of our regular
vocabulary, thus broadening our abilities
to perceive our world in a unique and
much broader way.
In some cultures, certain words, like those
Sanskrit words used in the Ancient India,
were used to connect a person with
ultimate reality. This unique language
appears in the earliest Upanishads (7th-8th
century b.c.e.). It has also been used as a way to converse with God, or the great mystery of causation and origination, the pervasive pure consciousness that informs all experiences.
A mantra is a sound that does not mean
anything but which helps you transcend
the limitations of thought and move to a
state of ascending awareness. An example
is "Om" which is used to represent the
sound of creation, the primeval vibration
that is believed to have created all the
other vibratory phenomena we call a
universe. By sitting still and repeating this
word with full attention, you transcend the
limitations of the senses, the limitations of
your identifications, and the limitations of
your sequential thought processes. You
attain stillness, poise, and equanimity over
time because the word comes to inform
your awareness.
A sutra is a sound as well, but it is also a
word; it is something that has meaning.
The word "sutra" itself means a stitch; it
stitches the finite being with its infinite
capacity. The word "suture" that is used in
English to describe a stitch by a surgeon
comes from this word.
Sutras abound in Sanskrit, and in fact the
entire language of Sanskrit can be said to
have been invented as a way for a person
to communicate with the divine. It is even
believed that saying the word has an
impact on the chakras, energy vortexes in
the each of the subtle bodies, and the
nadis , the subtle nerves. Their purpose is
to conduct prana or vital force through the
subtle bodies.
Many cryptic traditions refer to a number
of discrete planes of existence, each with
its own parallel "vehicle" of consciousness.
Instead of a single physical body housing
the soul, we have a series of "bodies" or
"vehicles of consciousness". All these
planes and bodies are connected by a
pervasive consciousness. Thus by using a
sacred language, we not only connect with
divinity, but with our own subtle powers
that exist in an invisible way.
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statements. They can also be woven into
complete dialogues that invoke the
potentiality of the non-local mind.
The most famous is the Gayatri Mantra:
Om Bhoor Bhuwah Swaha, Tat Savitur
Varenyam, Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi,
Dhiyo Yo Naha Prachodayat.
A rough translation might be: "Oh God!
Thou art the giver of life, remover of pain
and sorrow. The bestower of happiness.
Oh! Creator of the universe, may we
receive they supreme light. May thou
guide our intellect in the right direction."
The purpose of this invocation is to make
the devotee more intelligent, more capable
of insight, ingenuity and inspiration. This
wisdom will then create a life of balance
and harmony, truth and meaning, purpose
and fulfillment, and ultimately a life of
transcendental joy.
This mantra is said to be so potent that
some people consider it their only form of
devotion. There are numerous anecdotal
reports of people who have miraculously
resolved complex situation by using this
mantra. They range from resolution of
court cases, relief from debt, and escape
from life-threatening circumstances,
ranging from potential violence to a critical illness.
Over eons, the concept of God has
changed to represent the idea of a physical being of sorts, but in the time the
language of Sanskrit was evolving to
connect with God, divinity was considered
more along the lines of Baruch Spinoza, as
an intelligence that informed all of
creation, an abstract, energetic, and
effortless organizing principle.
Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677), a Dutch
philosopher, was considered one of the
great rationalists of 17th-century
philosophy. He created a sharp separation
from the medieval approach, especially
scholasticism, which considered God as a
being that was separate and distinct from
its creation, an authoritative figure, not
unlike the Grecian God, Zeus, or the
Nordic God, Odin, that demanded a servile
obedience that reflected the relationship
between a Medieval lord and his serf.
Today Quantum Mechanics finds that the
entire universe is intimately inter-related
at a subatomic level. This leads to the
speculation that the idea of separation
itself may be the ultimate illusion.
Everything may, in fact, be stitched
together by consciousness, what has been
referred to as "the non-local mind." Thus,
through the use of the sacred language,
the spiritual aspirant hoped to suture the
relationship between individual,
conditioned consciousness with universal,
pure consciousness, to suture the linear
with the synchronistic, and to suture the
time-bound and limited with the timeless
and infinite. He sought to find the rhythm
in the universe that would bless his life
with a stream of well-being, and that
would heal the schism of separation and
seal the wound of fear with the balm of
love.
The ultimate purpose of sentience appears
to be to embrace the mystery, and for this
it has evolved beings capable of creating
sounds to penetrate the veils of existence
in an attempt to suture the visible and the
invisible worlds, the realm of effort with
the effortless experience, the algorithmic
with the non-algorithmic, and the
conscious with the supra-conscious.
Language has been used to connect us
with each other, to share our experience
with one another, but once upon a time,
in a world now almost completely
forgotten, language was used to try to
connect all the worlds together and to
experience the bliss of transcendental
harmony.
So I am having a hard time and I think light meditation and just simple facets of life are what I handle right now. Because if I invest a lot in mantras and then my thinking is just crap I feel bad profaning and then just frustrated from the mental dissonance in hoping for creation to be loving and a good feeling. I think there is a fear in me to give over power to a mantra and then the mantra ends up agitating me and frustrating. My thinking is all over the place.
Is your spirituality Hinduism or influenced by Hinduism? How did you think to come to newbuddhist?
http://newbuddhist.com/discussion/14143/what-is-newbuddhist-com#Item_1
By the way, @:Bhagavan, if you quote anything which is not originally written by you, please simply supply links, and do not copy and paste great tracts of text.
It's illegal.
Simply ask people to read *this* link (paste link) then ask for comments.
Thank you.
This is truthness its presented in buddha teaching of peace and bliss. To the least is blessing from sutra and mantra sounds recitation. A technique for one mind in focus of non grasping. Just relax as happiness is what new buddhist is heading for all, isnt it. May peace be upon all. Om Mani Padme Hum
It's a simple enough basic forum request.
Paste a link and point us to it.
simple.
I'm not curtailing your speech.
If anything, we're keeping it broad.
It is always best (particularly if the text is quite long) to merely give a link, like this:
http://newbuddhist.com/discussion/14432/words-define-our-reality#Item_12
and to add something like -
"Please take a look at what our moderator asks, it's a reasonable request"
Or something.
www.newageinfo.com/mantras-sutras.htm
That's not a link though....
this is:
http://www.newageinfo.com/mantras-sutras.htm
copy it from the top bar....
But you didn't.
I'm so good....