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Jagadguru Shri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Shankaracharya Mahaswamigal (born in a Kannada Smartha family as Swaminathan Shasthri; 20 May 1894 – 8 January 1994) also known as the Sage of Kanchi or Mahaperiyavar (meaning, "The great elder") was the 68th Jagadguru Shankaracharya of the Moolamnaya Saravjna Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham.
It is an interesting story of how the temple was discovered from its ruins. One of the Bhakts approached Maha Periyava Sri Chandra Sekarendra Saraswathi Swamigal and sought His blessings for his new built home at Selaiyur. Maha Periyava blessed him, and told him that there is an old Siva temple lying in ruins at a nearby village called Madambakkam.
The Hare Krishna mantra, also referred to reverentially as the Mahā-mantra (lit. ' Great Mantra ' ), is a 16-word Vaishnava mantra mentioned in the Kali-Saṇṭāraṇa Upaniṣad . [ 1 ] In the 15th century, it rose to importance in the Bhakti movement following the teachings of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu .
Mantra-śāstra - textbooks on Mantras, metaphysics of mantric sound, related practices and rituals Prapañcasāra tantra and its commentaries and Ṭīkās; Śāradatilaka tantra by Lakṣmaṇa Deśikendra; Mantramuktāvali of Paramahaṃsa Pūrṇaprakāśa; Mantramahodadhi of Mahīdhara; Mantradevaprakāśikā of Viṣṇudeva
Shanti Mantras are invoked in the beginning of some topics of the Upanishads. They are believed to calm the mind and the environment of the reciter. Shanti Mantras always end with the sacred syllable om (auṃ) and three utterances of the word "shanti", which means "peace". The reason for the three utterances is regarded to be for the removal ...
The Mantra yoga is stated by the Yogatattva as a discipline of auditory recitation of mantras but stated to be an inferior form of yoga. [46] It is the practice of mantra recitation or intonations of the sounds of alphabet, for 12 years. [47] This gradually brings knowledge and special powers of inner attenuation, asserts the text. [14]
The Mahāmāyā Tantra probably first appeared within Buddhist tantric communities during the late ninth or early tenth centuries CE. Based on instances of intertextuality [note 2] it is considered to postdate the Guhyasamāja Tantra; and because it is less doctrinally and structurally developed than tantras such as the Hevajra Tantra, its origins are likely to precede that text, and it is ...
In the biographies of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, a Bhakti movement saint poet, the mantra he received when he was given diksha or initiation in Gaya was the maha-mantra of the Kali-Santarana Upanishad. In Gaudiya tradition, he is credited to have propagated it to the world along with Krishna bhakti .