Shani Shingnapur: The Doorless Village dedicated to Shri Shanidev

February 1, 2010

A friend from India, Shirin, recently sent me an article about a small village, Shani Shingnapur, dedicated to Shri Shanidev, a Hindu God of Saturn. In Shani Shingnapur people rely on Shri Shanidev for protection and crime prevention.  To demonstrate their faith in Shri Shanidev, they unofficially ban the use of latches, doors or even [...]

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Learn to read Sanskrit – Lesson 3

January 30, 2010

Tantric mantras use a variety of seed sounds, which do not have any meaning in terms of words, but which do have meanings in terms of the effects that those sounds produce. Words that we use in language are symbolic representations of different ideas, however the seed sounds and the Sanskrit words are not only [...]

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Learn to read Sanskrit – Lesson 2

January 26, 2010

Repeating different sounds can have powerful effect on stimulating different energies within your body. You may discover the power of different sounds even through your own experiments, noticing where do you feel that sound in your body and in your energy field and what changes are you experiencing. With some sounds you may experience the [...]

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Learn to Read Sanskrit – Lesson 1

January 24, 2010

Here is a fun and easy way to learn Sanskrit and to chant Sanskrit mantras While you can experience many beneficial results from chanting mantras even if you don’t know the meaning of the words and even if your pronunciation is not perfect – after all people do have different accents and many people have [...]

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Staving Off Death with Mahamrityunjaya Mantra

January 16, 2010

A prominent Vedic astrologer in India, K.N. Rao, was glancing over a friend’s horoscope when he noticed that the man was about to enter an extremely dangerous planetary cycle. Death was imminent. The astrologer didn’t mention what he’d seen, but strongly advised his friend to chant the Maha Mrityunjaya mantra faithfully every day. His friend [...]

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Mantra Siddhis

January 4, 2010

Each Sanskrit mantra has its own “siddhi” – a spiritual power that unfolds through the use of mantra. The word “siddhi” literally means “perfection”, “attainment”, “success”, but is frequently used to refer to any powers we may view as supra mundane, from telepathy and clairvoyance to psychokinesis, levitation, remembering past lives, changing the size of [...]

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What can Sanskrit Mantras do for you

January 1, 2010

Sanskrit is primarily an energy based language, where each sound puts you in resonance with a specific vibration. Everything in the universe, in your body and in your life, is made out of energy and everything vibrates with its own specific frequency. Sanskrit mantras can establish within you a resonance with the energies of health, prosperity, [...]

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