Month 1, Lesson 4 (M1-L4)

Basic Mantras to chant – all times for a month

These are the mantras to chant to balance the five elements within you. You have five elements, five Action Organs (hands, legs, mouth, sexual organ and anus), five sense perceiving organs (ears, nose, mouth, skin and eyes) and five subtle works of senses (hearing, smelling, tasting, touch, seeing). All these 15 elements are connected to five elements. To balance the five elements in you, you should chant the names of five elements. Your mind and intellect have greater impact of these five elements.

The Five elements are not just things. The five elements are divine souls who play the important role in cosmic management system of Prakriti. You also need to have good emotional feeling towards them, when you chant their names. The chanting cannot be just mechanical without any emotions. Like, if you call your friend for coffee, you need to have such emotions and love towards him / her so those feelings generate the good vibes which can be received by your friend and then, he / she will feel good about you and they in turn reciprocate with their vibrations.  Like that, you should chant the following mantras

You may think, you know these mantras or sounds but it does not mean that every mantra gives you energies. When the mantra comes from the mouth of Guru, then those mantras carry the cosmic energies.  Mantras need to come from the mouth of the Guru, then only they carry the required energies. Simply picking up mantras from books and internet and all do not carry the energies. You do not know your guru yet. But your Guru’s soul knows who you are.

People from other countries, as they do cannot pronounce the long Sanskrit mantras, these sounds are given for their comfort. If you are India born and if you can chant the Sanskrit based mantras, you can go for the Sanskrit based mantras. Whatever you choose is fine.

KRIYA – 1

Kriya means, you are required to practice. It is not meant for just reading.

1. Lamm – sound of earth
2. Vamm – sound of water
3. Rammm – sound of fire
4. Yamm – sound of air
5. Hamm – sky
6. OUM Shreem Guru Dakshina Murthi Namaha
7. Oum Hari-Hara-Brahma Namaha – Creation, sustenance and dissolution work of the cosmos happens only due to these three fatherly divine energies. Chanting their name help you have Yoga Gnana (knowledge of being in harmony with Nature in life).
8. If you were chanting any other mantras previously such as Om Namashivaya or Om Namo Narayanaya or any other mantras, you can also add them to this list. Because you had faith in such mantras, you came up to this level. So continuing that faith will add value to this process. You can also add the name of Jesus or Allah or whatever you have the name of God you have had the faith so far. But say OUM instead of OM, in case you have OM in front of that mantra. IF you did not chant any other mantras so far, you can chant the previous seven chants given.

You always chant these mantras, like while walking, while driving, while eating food and so on. You can chant these mantras without counting, silently in the mind.

Mantras given to practice in the lessons of AUMism are three types as follows.

1. Type 1: All Time Mantras
   The above list of mantras are called all time mantras. All time mantras mean, you chant these mantras all times like, while walking, while eating, while driving and so on. You silently do the chanting in your mind all times. That is why we call these mantras “All Time Mantras”. These all-time mantras will change in future. Till it is mentioned clearly, you continue chanting these mantras.
2. Type 2 – Mantras in the morning after wake up and in the night before sleep.
3. Type 3 – Mantras done in kriya meditation
   Some of the mantras done in meditation are not done all times. They are only done in meditation.
   

What is Mantra?

Mantra means, it is the technology of tying the mind to the cosmic forces of Nature.  Mind, with its feelings and emotions, will touch the soul and through soul your vibrations will reach the cosmic force of Nature whom, you are invoking by chanting these mantras.

The more you chant these mantras, the more your mind, and intellect will start balancing. Meditation requires the balancing of mind and intellect. This is the reason why, meditation practitioners will not be able to focus and they get lot of thoughts and so on. Chanting of the mantras is like WARM UP exercise (Before doing exercises or playing games, warmup they play right?). In the same way, this chanting works. When body, adjusts and muscles expand, then it helps in the real game. In the same way, this chanting helps your mind and intellect, people around situations, all those will be well adjusted.

As you keep chanting these mantras, you will start finding few changes in life, such as changing relationship, changing friends, employment changes or changing residences and so on. All these happen for your GOOD SAKE. Do not think that, these are disturbing you. The place you are living currently might be hindering your development – this is just an example. Like this some changes will take place.

You do not know which friend is good for you and which friend is bad. You do not know which job is good for you and so on.  So, some adjustments will happen which is good for your ENTIRE LIFE.  Your life will automatically start shaping up, better opportunities, more peace, more happiness starts coming in to you automatically. When these changes happen, do not THINK NEGATIVE about the changes and situations. Think positive that these changes are happening in your life, for your good sake. You also do not know what is good and what is not good in your life. You may like a job, but you might have some problem there after joining.  Nature knows about your future problems and Nature keeps pushing towards other jobs which are good for you and your life – this is just an example.

So you should see these changes positively. Do not complain about them. If you complain and go as per your preferences, it is your karma, that you will have to bear the pains in future (because you choose). Always go as per Nature directions. Guru works through Nature. Guru Shree Dakshinamurthy keeps guiding you from within in the form of thoughts (that suddenly drop in your mind) and some visions you might experience in meditation or in deep sleep (in the form of dreams). Sometimes, the Guru of this path, Shree Guru might communicate some message to you – which you may connect you to the current situations and problems that you go through.

Some Changes after chanting these Mantras

Especially five elements mantras, lam, vam,ram, yam, ham are given in the first one month, to tune the chakras and to balance the chakras.  During this process you may experience some dullness or disinterest of life or work in the first one month. Do not worry about these feelings and emotions. In the 2^nd month, you will stop chanting these mantras and a mantra that actually gets to your interests, passion in life and accordingly that Mantra will energize you. So then, you will become more and more passionate about the works / jobs / businesses you do and then in those businesses and professions, you will start seeing great progress. In six months, after joining this path, you will find lot of changes in life in terms of material growth, stability in life, peace and happiness you will find.

If you are happy with existing places and jobs, then these changes will not happy. In case you have a small desire in your heart about progress or money and all in your life, then these changes will take place. Along with these changes, you might also change jobs or change places (of living) and so on, But see them positively. Do not see them negatively. All those changes are meant to give you better development and growth in all aspects of life. These changes are also a kind of churning in real life.

So see situations positively and learn to go in the wind flow direction of the Nature.

When you feel dullness etc, you can chant the Guru mantra more and you can also connect to the physical Guru, Shree Guru and may be you can send him any messages and also have any casual talks with him. You will feel relaxed by such conversations with him as some energy will come to you.

Whenever you feel like low, you can download this song of Shree Guru Dakshinamurthy  Stotra and listen to it. It will give lot of peace.

You can watch this video to understand its meaning.

If you want to download the audio – You can download from here – I found this version of audio, sung out of love for Guru,Shree Dakshina Murthy.- DOWNLOAD AUDIO FILE FROM GOOGLE DRIVE