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The Pavamana Mantra (pavamāna meaning "being purified, strained", historically a name of Soma), also known as pavamāna abhyāroha (abhyāroha, lit. "ascending", being an Upanishadic technical term for "prayer" [1]) is an ancient Indian mantra introduced in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad (1.3.28.) [2] [3] [4] The mantra was originally meant to be recited during the introductory praise of ...
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Prayer (Sanskrit: प्रार्थना, romanized: prārthanā) is considered to be an integral part of the Hindu religion; it is practiced during Hindu worship and is an expression of devotion . The chanting of mantras is the most popular form of worship in Hinduism. The Vedas are liturgical texts (mantras and hymns). Stuti is an ...
He who learns the vidya (knowledge) and the mantras in the scripture is sanctified and earns the merit of reciting the Gayatri Mantra, the maha-rudra hymns and Om mantra numerous times, and is cleansed of all sin. [18] Meditating on the mantra taught, asserts the text, leads the yogi to transmute, fuse with the supreme and realize god within ...
The oral tradition of the Vedas consists of several pathas, "recitations" or ways of chanting the Vedic mantras.Such traditions of Vedic chant are often considered the oldest unbroken oral tradition in existence, the fixation of the Vedic texts as preserved dating to roughly the time of Homer (early Iron Age).
Om Namo Bhagavate Vāsudevaya in Devanagari. Om Namo Bhagavate Vāsudevāya (Sanskrit: ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय, lit. 'I bow to God Vāsudeva'; listen ⓘ) is one of the most popular mantras in Hinduism and, according to the Bhagavata tradition, the most important mantra in Vaishnavism. [1]
Aum, according to Hindu philosophy, is the primordial sound from which the whole universe was created. Aum, also called the Pranava, is the original Word of Power, and is recited as a mantra. A mantra is a series of verbal sounds having inherent sound-power that can produce a particular physical or psychological effect, not just something that ...
Swaminarayan was given the mantra, ‘Brahmāhaṃ Kṛṣṇadāso'smi,’ which means “I am Brahman, servant of God.”In 1801, when Sahajanand Swami succeeded Ramanand Swami as the spiritual head of the sampradāya, he continued using this mantra for the purpose of initiating followers into the sampradaya, however he sought to introduce a new mantra to be used for daily worship and chanting.