The Ancient Science of Mantras: Wisdom of the Sages

by Om Swami

“When due to ignorance, you can’t get over your grief, your sorrow,” Shiva said, “it is suffering.”

Seventy million different sounds manifested that covered the entire spectrum of all mantras to be ever created.

These 57 letters came to be known as Maheshvara Sutra and formed the basis of the most ancient spoken language in the world:

All existence is simply an arrangement of silence and sound. Or simply, sound at different frequencies, for silence, too, is a type of sound.

The basic unit of life is the nimesha, the instant. Fifteen nimeshas make one kastha, thirty kasthas one kaala, thirty kaalas one muhurta and thirty muhurtas one day. Thirty days is a maasa, a month, which is one day of the gods and ancestors; six maasas make an ayana, two ayanas a year. One human year is a day and a night for the celestials, uttarayana being the day and dakshinayana the night. Three hundred and sixty-five human years make a divine one. Four are the yugas in the land of Bharata: the krita, treta, dwapara and kali. The pristine krita lasts 4,800 divine years, the less perfect treta 3,600 years, the half-corrupt dwapara 2,400 and the almost entirely evil kali, 1,200.

A chaturyuga, one cycle of four ages, is 12,000 godly years long, 12,000 x 365 human years. Seventy-one chaturyugas make a manvantara, fourteen manvantaras a kalpa. A kalpa, of 1000 chaturyugas, 12 million divine years, is one day of Brahma, the Creator. 8,000 years of Brahma make one Brahma yuga; 1,000 Brahma yugas make a savana. Each Brahma lives for 3,003 savanas. A day of Brahma’s has 14 Indras, his life 54,000 Indras. One day of Vishnu is the lifetime of Brahma. One day of Siva is the lifetime of Vishnu…

Anything secondhand cannot be knowledge; it is merely information. When we use that information and arrive at a conclusion based on our own experience, it is knowledge.

Elemental Compatibility (Kula-Akula Chakra) Kula means race, tribe, lineage, community or a body. Akula is the opposite of kula, i.e.,

Rudrayamalam and other scriptures are quite clear on the mantras that don’t need special assessments.