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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]
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 .
The Ram Nam mantra, originally attributed to Ramdas, was adopted by Brahmachaitanya, and was central to his teachings. [5] According to S. G. Tulpule, Brahmachaitanya, like saints Mirabai , Ramdas, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu , and Tulsidas , was a well-known practitioner of reciting the divine name as an incarnation of God .
The sixteen mantras that Narada was advised to recite by Brahma relate to jiva the immortal soul which has sixteen kalas. [2] There are no rules and regulations to chant this maha-mantra ('great mantra'). It should be chanted always irrespective of whether one is in a pure or impure condition. [15]
Shri Rudram is also famous for its mention of the Shaivite holy mantra Namah Shivaya, which appears in the text of the Śatarudrīya in the eighth anuvāka of Taittiriya Samhita (TS 4.5.8.1). [4] In Shukla Yajurveda it is found in chapter 16, verse 41. It also contains the mantra Aum namo bhagavate rudraya and the Mahamrityunjaya Mantra. [5] [6 ...
Om Namo Narayanaya (Sanskrit: ॐ नमो नारायणाय, romanized: Om Namo Nārāyanāya, lit. 'I bow to the Ultimate Reality, Narayana'), [1] also referred to as the Ashtakshara (eight syllables), and the Narayana Mantra, is among the most popular mantras of Hinduism, and the principal mantra of Vaishnavism. [2]
Tulsidas composed this mantra in the late fifteenth century in what is now Uttar Pradesh and created many other literary pieces including the magnum opus Ramcharitmanas. Rudrashtakam appears in the Uttara Kand of the Ramcharitmanas , where the sage Lomasha composed the hymn to invoke the energy of Shiva .
A common mantra commemorating Swami Samarth is read as "Aum Abhayadata Shree Swamisamarthaya Namaha". His first biography was written by Sakharam Balkrishna Sarnaik (Chambalikar) named as Shripadbhushan [ 12 ] in 1871 followed by Sant Wamanbhau Maharaj's Shree Guruleelamrut written in 1872.