that's a beautiful experience steve.
i'm not sure how to make the accents but the mantra taught to us by swami translted in english spelling is,
sriramanama-bijja-mantra-vinyasah (with accents in their proper placement).
he relayed to us the difference between mantra and mantra vinyasah which is a type of kriya.
last night i woke up with anger. i had to walk myself again through yoganandas words, reminding myself that anger is from thwarted desire. in my prayer to god, i realized i was showing a disrespect or, a lack of faith. i believe in god. he has even answered my plea recently. gods will is greater than my own. a part of my spiritual practice is in altering my perspective. god is in all, to direct anger to any one is the same as sharing that anger with god. i asked the lord to help me disconnect from this identification. to send those in my mind who aroused my anger love instead. the spiritual practice is a daily reminder that, "thy will be done." a great faith in the one i believe in, that all is as he wills it. should my lesser desires be unsatisfied, i believe god has plans for me this ego can not readily or always interpret.
anyways. he wants us to practice this mantra for 1 month. 27 times on the point of time, space and energy and 12 times bottom up through the cakra disc in the spinal column.
it was around 1:30AM i decided to enter meditation in the dark, the quiet house and the level of stillness left me feeling very connected. i whispered the mantra and felt the most sensations i have in a while- literally the seed energy was releasing something in each point and this could be felt. there is a level of sincerity and stillness, erect posture.. but... wow, it was that sensation of the chills running along the spine, the tingling atop the forehead and even an entering in the front side of my body.
swami has explained that these sensations in the back are the cakra disc releasing energy, the beginning parts of each mantra is what breaks it down and then we put in the ramaya namah as a type of medicine. he said for those who have mastered the mantra, that if you put your ear along their body, you can hear the cakra disc emanating the mantra sounds.
yesterday before all this i practiced in the yard, and, i decided to include ammas chant lokah samasta this one... it also provided a great release and allowed me to feel a direct channel of energy between earth and sky. i tried to project this one to the world and my surroundings.
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I see you have and are using different spiritual techniques as I have myself. Sometimes i’m more receptive or prefer one technique over the other for various reasons, which also include my friends use of them. Changing are perspectives as you mentioned above happens to be an extremely important element of spiritual awakening because the realization of where we cause our own blocks in awareness can alter our whole outlook on our environment and the people in it. In fact sometimes it is like a revelation that enlightens us to a knew view of ourselves. The mantra is the most basic of all meditation techniques. It trains our mind to practice ‘higher’ techniques with more awareness so we are able to benefit from them by increased awareness.
