“Om (AUM) the Divine song is at the same time Symmetry, Supersymmetry, broken Symmetry, and the unbroken Symmetry of Nature.” – Amit Ray
Through out the ages man has tried everything under the sun in hopes of becoming more intelligent or experiencing something that would take him beyond the confines of mundane reality.
One of the preferred tools for the Yogis and Sages was the use of sacred mantras. Over thousands of years after being immersed in deep contemplation they discovered that certain sounds if repeated with an unshakable earnestness would produce various results.
I know for many people all this may sound like hocus pocus, but let’s try to put our prejudices aside for a bit and look into the theory of mantras as tools for transformation.
The Power of Mantras and Chants
I will only lightly touch on this subject as it is beyond the scope of this article. Essentially everything around us is energy, in turn this energy is an immense ocean of vibrations. The sages believed that if one put their entire being and devotion into the repetition of certain sounds they would eventually change the vibration of their whole physiology while also permeating their astral and causal bodies. Their cells would begin to vibrate at a different frequency. This in turn would attract compatible vibrations. In India they have a mantra for everything. They have mantras to attract wealth, love, a career, enlightenment, etc.
You don’t have to believe in a mantras out of this world power to receive its benefits. From the western perspective one thing is clear is that sounds do have a profound and pronounced effect on our psyche. Go to a heavy metal concert and let me know how peaceful you feel after the show. At the very least you will receive many therapeutic and purifying effects from many of these mantras, and if health, wealth, and happiness also come as a result of your practice, all the better.
For me I just find many of the mantras sounds based on Sanskrit to be beautiful and the vibrations they create within me when I meditate is a lovely feeling. Also if you don’t feel comfortable you don’t have to use something that is foreign to you. You could use any word that creates a good feeling within you as a meditation practice. Many people like to just repeat and meditate on a word such as “love,” but for me I simply like focusing on the sounds and not necessarily the literal meaning behind those words.
Mantras in meditation also serve to help the mind become one pointed, and from this one pointedness make the jump to “no” mind. Experiment until you find something that resonates with you and your spiritual practice.
Mantra for Education and Intelligence
Today I would like to share one of my favorite mantras. This mantra is believed to bring you knowledge and intelligence. As a result, many parents teach their sons and daughters this mantra in hopes that it helps with their studies. This mantra comes from the Hindu deity Saraswati. She is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, arts and science. She is the companion of Brahma. There are many variations of the mantra, but the one that I like to use is: OM AING SARASWATYAI NAMAHA or OM SHREEM HREEM SARASWATYAI NAMAHA
Here is a video to help you with the pronunciation.
As a general practice you can chant the mantra daily for at least 108 times out loud, mentally, or both all while focusing your attention at the point between your brow (third eye). Your eyes can be slightly turned up but it shouldn’t cause you any strain. If you like you can also visualize the goddess in your minds eye.
If you can’t sit in a lotus position, a chair is perfectly fine just make sure to keep your spine nice and straight. The important thing is that your bring your full attention to the sounds, as soon as your mind starts to wander gently bring it back. Just be passive but alert and simply witness the sounds and whatever inner manifestations they may stimulate. Best times are morning or in the evening. You can use beads to help you count.
Dedicate a nice, quite, tidy place for your practice. In time this place will begin to hold the vibrations of your practice and become a sacred place for you. It’s just like when you are traveling and sleep in another bed, it doesn’t feel quite right because that space hasn’t absorbed your vibrations. With children it’s their beloved “blanky” which is charged with their own energy and that they can take comfort in. With Yogis it’s their mala beads that hold the vibration from their meditation practice.
Thank you for reading my short post, it is my sincere desire that one day through your sincere practice you will in your innermost core hear the soundless sound of creation. Peace.
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IT REALLY GREAT TO KNOW VIBRATION POWER OF MANTRA TO GET KNOWLEDGE FROM YOU
Thank you, wish you the best!…many blessings to you.
nice inspiring article.
Thank you.
Do you feel that after chanting saraswati mantra you have grown in intelligence?
Thank for the kind words. It is hard to say but it definitely helps me start my day in a much more peaceful and mindful way, which then helps me deal with my day in a more intelligent way. Please let me know your experience.
It is an amazing post and you have taught people a new powerful technique to meditate.People in India have been practicing this for centuries but unfortunately very few actually know the significance which you have clearly pointed out.
Thank you my friend Anish, I hope we can meet in India some day soon. Peace.
welcome to india
people like you are required for the whole world
thank you for the kind words, I really hope to have an adventure in your country in the near future…namaste 🙂
Thanx for the enlightening mantra. I have always been a great devotee of Goddess Saraswathi and would pray Her for education and knowledge. Somehow I feel that Goddess Saraswathi is not kind to me and wanted to please Her by all means I could. I would want to recite this mantra daily and also please help with the ways to appease Goddess Saraswathi to bless me with education, Knowledge, arts and music. I want Her blessings desperately, as I am already 40 years old and cannot help myself with out Her kindness at least now to achieve success in my life. Please mail me.
please send me mantras by which i can increase my attention,intelligence,wealth,attractiveness,and health to my e-mail address.
thankyou very much!!!!
My pleasure 🙂 come back soon! Many blessings to you!
What is there for me to say! You are one among the few blessed souls in this world. I am sad that we Indians are missing everything, and fortunately people like you are compensating for the loss! I am sure your organised way of being in anything, will ultimately help establishment of peace in this human world. God bless you.
Thank you for your sentiment. I will continue to try my best to spread positivity. Namaste.
i try lost 2 days for this mantra but i dont have any vibration in my studies………
Thank you. Really great.
you’re very welcome 🙂
Well Well Well…This mantra had really worked for me, especially it had enhanced my concentration power.
Since childhood, my mother used to tell me to Worship Goddess Saraswati if I wanted to score good, although I never did that 😛
But today I came to know the importance of it indeed, thankk you for sharing this mantra with me.
Being An Indian, We have always practised this mantra 🙂 and it gives a sense of stress relief to me. 😉
thank u very much.
wow its working gud…..now im happy happy
Thanks for mantra suggestions. I will try.
My memory is weak I can’t able to understand anything .I think I am a slow learner I can’t able to do any mental work please give me some powerful mantras
I AM ALSO SUFFERING FROM THE SIMILAR TYPE OF PROBLEM LIKE 1.POOREST MEMORY 2. DELAY IN UNDERSTANDING THE THINGS 3.COULD PLEASE SORT OUT MY MIND PROBLEM PLEASE
My name is dileep,my memory,focus,attention, concentration, retrieving power is very low,can you send me maa saraswati mantra with pronunciations on my email address which will be beneficial for me,plz send me thanx
My name is dileep,my memory,focus,attention, concentration, retrieving power is very low,can you send me maa saraswati mantra with pronunciations on my email address dileepchouhan1982@gmail.com will be beneficial for me,plz send me thanx
Thankyou
I am interested in this in a sense that it will involve knowledge. My apprehension though, becasue it is based in India, is this applicable to other nationality like Filipinos? I wan to gain insight in this matter.