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Mantras are all enshrined in Vedic literature. These are various to the four yugas, and the Hare Krishna mahamantra is to kali yuga. [1] The Hare Krishna mantra is composed with the three names of the supreme power: Hare, Krishna, and Rama. [2] [3] [4]
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The temples are connected to the "Taraka", the "ferryboat mantra" [2] or "mantra of the crossing" [3] believed to guide the spirit of the dying to moksha. [4] One Shivite form of the prayer is Om Sri Rama Jaya Rama Jaya Jaya Rama (" Om , Victory to God with his shakti , victory, victory to God"), supposedly taught by Shiva to his wife Parvati .
Reciting this mantra daily without any aspirations would help overcome "fire, wind, sun, moon, devas, plants and poison". [11] At the center of this Sudarshana Chakra, Om as the Taraka mantra of Nrisimha are inscribed. [15] These are: Sudarshana (on six petals), Narayana (on eight petals), Vasudeva (on 12 petals), and mathruka (on 16 petals ...
The text discusses three goals of introspection, Taraka yoga and the nondual nature of Reality . [5] The text also includes verses on Raja yoga, [ 6 ] and Kundalini Tantra. [ 7 ] The Upanishad also states that maya or illusion is the reason for the "differentiation" of the living from God.
The Upanishad thereafter glorifies Narayana, by stating that "Om Namo Narayana" is the means to cross from mundane world into spiritual world (Taraka). [4] Om in this mantra is Atman (self, soul) asserts the text, Namah represents Prakriti (nature, changing reality), and Narayana is the nature of Parabrahman (supreme Brahman).
The temple in Manikarnika Ghat is located in front to the Tarkeshwar Mahadev Mandir [11] built in 1795 by Ahilyabai Holkar, [12] where Lord Shiva is said to recite the Taraka Mantra (salvation mantra).
Stella Kramrisch's full analysis of the Tripurasamhara episode appears in Chapter XI.3 of her book, The Presence of Siva [Princeton University Press, 1981], in the section on "Cosmic Demons." [6] In one part, Kramrisch speaks of the story as having "the body of man for its scene": "the Asuras entered the bodies of men.