The Ancient Science of Mantras: Wisdom of the Sages

by Om Swami

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When you tuck in your thumbs in their respective fists and turn these fists over, this is called sambodhini or sannirodhini mudra. After chanting your mantra and while showing the mudra, just chant, ‘Jaya Devi! Suswagatam!’ if you are invoking feminine energy, or ‘Jaya Deva! Suswagatam!’ if you are invoking the masculine energy.

Sammukhikarana means to present. In sammukhikarana, you mentally present various offerings like a glass of water, or a cool drink, or fanning your deity. All of this is done mentally while you visualize with utmost reverence and devotion. When fists formed in the sambodhini mudra are turned upwards, this is called sammukhikarana mudra.

Chant your mantra and add ‘sarvam samarpyami’ in the end. Finish by showing the sammukhikarana mudra.

The joining your palms next to your heart in the posture of namaste is called sakalikaran mudra.

To make a fist with your left hand while keeping the left index finger out and pointing it at the ground and turning the index finger anti-clockwise is called avagunthana mudra. Avagunthana is done by mentally chanting your mantra and performing the avagunthana mudra.

Dhenu mudra is shown for amaratikarna. Dhenu mudra is performed by bringing your palms together. The tip of the right index finger should touch the tip of the left middle finger while the tip of the left

index finger should touch the tip of the right middle finger. The tip of the right ring finger should touch the tip of the left little finger while the tip of the left ring finger should touch the tip of the right ring finger. Join both thumbs at their tips. Point it downwards. This is the auspicious dhenu mudra.

Chant the mantra of your deity but give a samputa of the amrita beeja (vam) by appending it in the front and at the end. ...

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Chant your mantra and then say ‘aham brahmasmi’ three times. Finish by showing the paramikaran mudra.

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Application (Viniyoga) Take a bit of water in your right palm from the water pot for offering (arghya patra) and chant the following mantra. (The type, use and arrangement of water pots are covered in detail in Arrangement of Pots (Patrasadan) in Detailed Notes. Sanskrit (Devanagri) Sanskrit (IAST) ॐ अस्य श्री मातृका न्यास मन्त्रस्य ब्रहमा ऋषिः गायत्री छन्दः मातृका सरस्वती देवी देवता हलो oṃ asya śrī mātṛkā nyāsa mantrasya brahmā ṛṣiḥ gāyatrī chandaḥ mātṛkā sarasvatī devī devatā halo बीजानि स्वरा : शक्त्यः (क्षं कीलकं) अखिलातप्ये न्यासे विनियोगः । bījāni svarāḥ śaktyaḥ (kṣaṃ kīlakaṃ) akhilātapye nyāse viniyogaḥ । After chanting the mantra above, leave the water in your palm in the plate next to you. Nyasa of the sages (rsyādi-nyāsa:)

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