- The chanting of Om drives away all worldly thoughts and removes distraction and infuses new vigour in the body.
- When you feel depressed, chant Om fifty times and you will be filled with new vigour and strength. The chanting of Om is a powerful tonic. When you chant Om, you feel you are the pure, all pervading light and consciousness.
- Those who chant Om will have a powerful, sweet voice. Whenever you take a stroll, you can chant Om. You can also sing Om in a beautiful way. The rythmic pronunciation of Om makes the mind serene and pointed, and infuses the spiritual qualifications which ensure self-realization.
- Those who do meditation of Om daily will get tremendous power. They will have lustre in their eyes and faces.
That is a rather interesting post Raj.
Thank you for sharing.
gordon
Thank you Gordon! I found it here omsakthi dot org/worship/mantra.html and thought of sharing with people.
I like your suggestions to people. I wish you were in Vancouver, BC so that I could come to your classes 
-Raj
Nice, Raj.
It’s hard not to feel energized after chanting om. The enlightened ones say it’s like the cosmic motor of the universe.
A littlereading. Please note that in it’s time this was an esoteric lesson, not publicly available. The presented text are notes of the spoken lecture, made by someone in the audience.
“[I]We find a mighty drive in the animal kingdom that’s independent of sense organs. If one brings a foreign pair of butterflies to Germany and releases the male in Frankfurt and the female say in Magdeburg, the two will reunite without fail. They do this with special organs that are even finer than sense organs. If we meet a total stranger whom we feel a great sympathy for, as happens between man and wife and also between friends, then this is a sign that these people belong together and that they have soul organs that tell them this and bring them together[/I].”
Thanks for the tip. I’ll try this some time. I do get stressed a lot.
Hello Raj
Is this because AUM is associated with the opening of the third eye which when exercised, promotes your health?
even a bad tooth will repair itself?
I will add this to my shortlist of good tools to use in everyday situations…Thanks
Hello Kareng, True that AUM is associated with the third eye or Ajna or Agya Chakra as the [U]bija sound of third eye chakra is AUM[/U]. It certainly promotes good health but not sure about the repairing of bad tooth. May be others can explain.
Hello Raj…there are a number of odd things occur when the third eye is opened and even stranger when you meet the inner Guru. Health is improved to the nth degree in all aspects of health, including the teeth. It sounds far fetched but you have my word on this.
Kind Regards Kareng
Some mantras tend to have longer exhalation of breath naturally.
Also, the concentration of repeated mantra reduces extra thoughts bombarding our heads.
I’ve often wondered what brainwaves my head goes thru during some mantras, they seem to be nice ones whatever they are.
Meditate, don’t medicate, Gil
Do you think the Om should be in a specific Octave…I tend to automatically come out with Om at the low end, it feels natural…what does anyone think on this?
[QUOTE=Hubert;24957]A littlereading. Please note that in it’s time this was an esoteric lesson, not publicly available. The presented text are notes of the spoken lecture, made by someone in the audience.
“[I]We find a mighty drive in the animal kingdom that’s independent of sense organs. If one brings a foreign pair of butterflies to Germany and releases the male in Frankfurt and the female say in Magdeburg, the two will reunite without fail. They do this with special organs that are even finer than sense organs. If we meet a total stranger whom we feel a great sympathy for, as happens between man and wife and also between friends, then this is a sign that these people belong together and that they have soul organs that tell them this and bring them together[/I].”[/QUOTE]
Oneness. We are all one. We are all like a huge Internet network. This is
performed through our DNA’s, which can communicate:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/07/15/is_dna_hypercommunication_a_native_internet.htm
There is a lot moree to it.
Raj…Do you think the Om should be in a specific Octave…I tend to automatically come out with Om at the low end, it feels natural…
Kind Regards Kareng
Hi Kareng,
I don’t chant ‘Om’ often or not in my home practice. I (tend to )say it mentally or on the level of consciousness, i.e intone it silently as part of a deep mantra-based meditation after pranayama practice(and possibly asana before that). But you might find this thread interesting.
http://www.yogaforums.com/forums/f16/practice-the-om-mantra-6519.html
Also check out post #12 of that same thread :-
I’ve come across a number of options from aum where the extended ‘o’ is the same as in the words ‘home’, 'alone, to the oonng of some kriya yoga schools/circles( i can’t remeber if it was yogananda or lahir mahasaya or yukteshawar,yogananda’s guru). and then the third option which may resonate more in deep mantra meditation applications(rather than verbal chants) where you may say it as it arises naturally, with ease or least resistance.
What you suggest sounds good to me. I say this becase a good or devotional attitude counts-i.e sincerity( just doing it for it’s own sake,tuning in,)surrender, from the heart or third-eye perhaps might be more accurate, open etc.
The ‘om’ does, it is alleged, help open the third-eye, spiritual intuition, inner guru, inner space etc( and the crown,over-all generally).
If you say and then feel the vibrations, the reverberations then that seems like good application. If you’re open ,then the divine is listening so to speak.
I’ve tried all 3 above( or a mixture) including chaniting. I would say do what feels most naturally and comes easily.I’m not aware there is any right or wrong as it’s the devotional attitude that i would have thought counts or God’s grace.If it’s done with an open mind and so on.
Perhaps other may be able to shed fmore light on this subject.I believe om is the seed mantra of all mantras.Perhaps quantum physiics might be able to verify this for those that would like the scientific evidence.Of course the best proof that trumps the rest is to find out for yourself.
Feel free to comment on any or all of this, Kareng.
My approach is i tend to experiment, i.e learn through practice(i’m not too sure how else you can learn , i.e through lessons, all learning is like that, arriving at good perception) , and see what works.I think if we trust our spiritual instincts and intuitons, call it inner guru then this helps to guide us. The Om practice should be really benefical in this regard.
By tuning in through mantra in theory i suspect we can start workiing on the level of the [U]causal[/U] plane or at least trying to access it.The level of choice,free-will karma, beyond mind ,divine flow and God’s grace, beyond ego & separation and so on.
The causal plane is where really work gets done i would have thought.This is the quantum level.
I think after a while in yoga you just learn to fly blind and just put your faith that everything will work out in the end.Whatever happens happens but we do have it in our power influence effect things.This is where the appllied science part comes in.Having the knowledge, and being prepared and happy to use it. There the thiing about haviing effective techniques but also i think there’s using techniques that are most appropriate for different individuals. Which is why there are different yoga paths and they are all valid and have their strengths and weakness for different individuals.The trick is arriving at what works for you,the knowledge perhaps moodifying it as you go along and applying it.
Thank you Core789 The main reason Im asking is because I used to be a Singer and can reach the lower end if I want to. I was wondering if all women can do this as many women have naturally higher voices and presumably would find lower octaves more difficult…surya is right in stating that the lower octaves produce greater vibrations, or is it like …‘What you suggest sounds good to me. I say this because a good or devotional attitude counts-i.e sincerity’
Ive heard numbers of Buddhists sounding the Om and by coincidence perhaps, mine is in the same as theirs. After experimenting I noted I [B]always[/B] tune in the same as theirs so it begs the question is it a specific Octave that is more appropriate, natural and does everyone tune in on this frequency, identically?
I suppose we need more women answering this question…ladies please respond if you read this…
Thankyou for sharing! Raj
Hi Kareng,Thanks for your perspective & feedback on this subject.
I’ve tried the higher pitch myself and the effects are efficacious and desirable also.I have been playing with this one myself after SD’s post, and i’m sure i’d come across this suggesstion before in the literature( i think in one of yogananda’s letters he mentioned this to his guru ,sri yukteshewar unless i am mistaken and talked about how he was impressed by it i think, therafter yukteshawar was experimenting with it. it might also have been practied by other lineages/teachers which is how yogananda got hold of it. as i say i’m not too sure as i am not a scholar on the history of yoga,handed down somehow)
I might be inclined to go with the lower pitch if iwas’nt too sure about a long-term approach or strategy…However i don’t think it really matters.The third option could cover 1 & 2 and vary over time and indeed within each sitting.
The deep low drone that one might associates with buddhist temple halls & buddhists,there’s maybe no coincidence if you’re hitting the same frequencies or notes.There may be some kind of organic pattern inherent. But i’m all in favour of listening deep within to inner guru if in any doubt.If it comes naturally then that suggests to me there’s a natural harmony and resonance that is harmonising, though what this might be could vary over one sitting and over time.
Therefore i would say you try the lower ocatves relative to your range and see what happens…or go with what seems to arise naturally so you’re not unconsciously influencing it.
As i say i don’t reallt chant so i don’t have a great deal of experience with it. but i’ve been thinking of adopting the gayatri and mritunjaya mantras after a little exposure recently.Plus some dude i know is always telling me they are really effective ,as is mantra chanting generally, and a complete sadhana by itself.
Ive heard numbers of Buddhists sounding the Om and by coincidence perhaps, mine is in the same as theirs. After experimenting I noted I [B]always[/B] tune in the same as theirs so it begs the question is it a specific Octave that is more appropriate, natural and does everyone tune in on this frequency, identically?
I think people may tune into freequencies that are appropriate for them. But over time patterns emerge.So in that sense they could be different.So Resonance,pitch, frequency etc all may differ in order for there to be over-alll harmony.As everyone is different and occupies dfferent levels and flavours of consciousness.But organic patterns do emerge.
Thanks core789 …Are their any ladies who can comment too x
I might give the lower octaves a try during meditation, now you mention it…
I think i also remember a tibetan lama mentioning it.
Try & See…