Dissolving with - Bija, Chakra

and the Goddess

Locating the seven chakra's, knowing their basic
attributes of colour, element, and psychological
associations for energy work is essential. Meditating on
these points and chanting can be practised in order to
free up the energy flow within, which brings results
externally. The process of chanting itself shakes up the
held patterns of energy and reshapes them to their
higher possibility.

These chakras are visualized and struck with the seed

sound of the bija mantra in order from the base of the
tail bone upwards to the top of the head. 
Chant each of these in order, drawing your mind to each
chakra, striking the chakra with the mantra:
KREEM - KLEEM - HUM - HREEM - AYM -
SHREEM - OM!

As your concentration gets better, think of each Goddess

at each chakra and dissolve the chakras into each other
until they dissolve at the crown. 
So,you can dissolve Earth into Water (root chakra to sex
chakra), Water into Fire, Fire into Air, Air into Space,
Space into Mind and Mind into the Cosmic realm. 

1. Root chakra - mantra “KREEM” - this mantra is the

sound which creates electricity and transformation. 
It is the seed sound for the Goddess Kali, who is the
personification of Kundalini, hence placing this mantra
at the tail bone stimulates this higher, transformational
prana to activate. Kali is TIME and rules over the
dissolution of matter back to energy (death) as well as
the destruction of illusion. When chanted at the root
chakra, this mantra also helps us to understand what true
security is - inside the Self! 
OM KREEM KALIKAYE NAMAHA!

2. Sex chakra - mantra “KLEEM” - this mantra is sticky,

in that it holds things in it’s place, and attracts to itself.
It is the energy of attraction, beauty, creativity, and love.
Connected with the Goddess, Tripura Sundari who
symbolises a pacified crown chakra grants us the
experience of beauty and truth from within. It can also
be used for Lord Krishna, and any deity or thing we
wish to pull towards us. As the sex chakra is concerned
with creativity and love, awakening the higher side of
this chakra with this mantra, we become a source of
love and creativity, without the need to manipulate
others to satisfy us. 
OM KLEEM SUNDARYE NAMAHA!

3. Navel chakra - mantra “HOOM” or “DOOM” as you

can hear these two mantras both employ the long U
sound, which has a similar effect of protection. Chant
HOOM, with a short U sound, emphasizing the exhale
and you will feel the navel contract; this is where the
navel chakra is. HOOM is specific for Agni or FIRE.
DOOM is specific for the Goddess Durga who is sought
for protection. These mantras increase intensity and
heat, which is a good thing especially for the digestive
strength. The higher notion of this chakras meaning of
power is the expression of a quiet power that does not
need violence to attain it’s ends. Instead, true power is
when all things are given freely to us without request or
struggle. 
OM HOOM AGNIYE SWAHA!

4. Heart chakra - mantra “HREEM” - This mantra is like

"OM" but for the Goddess, and connects you magically
at a heart level to the Supreme, or, any other deity or
thing we wish to get closer to. This is one of the most
important mantras and has positive effects upon the
physical heart as well as the energetic heart. The higher
aspect of the heart chakra is to let the expression of love
become unconditional and the direct perception of the
air element.
OM HREEM MAHADEVYE NAMAHA!
5. Throat chakra - mantra “AYM” (like AIIIIM) - chant
this mantra for wisdom, higher learning, teaching
ability, and the gift of convincing speech. Connected
with the Goddess Saraswati, this mantra is the most
important mantra after OM.
OM AYM SARASWATYE NAMAHA!
6. Third eye - mantra “SHREEM” - Lately I have been
talking about SOMA, and the bindu chakra at the back
of the head. The mantra SHREEM brings about beauty,
devotion, abundance, softness, and can be used to take
refuge in whatever deity we choose. SHREEM is
connected to the goddess Lakshmi, who’s two lower
arms dispense tangible wealth, and who’s two upper
arms hold lotuses, the abundance in spirit, the SOMA
we yogis are seeking. 
OM SHREEM MAHALAKSHMIYE NAMAHA!

7. Crown chakra - mantra “OM” - liberation, going

beyond all form. When you chant OM, bring your mind
to stillness after the sound has finished, which takes
your mind to the pure stillness within.

'Bija' means 'seed; germ; semen; source; origin; primary

cause; truth
as the cause of being; basis for the mind'. A Bija Mantra is
formed by
a combination of the sounds of the Sanskrit alphabet, which
contains
50 sounds. As tradition suggests, all these sounds are
sacred sounds,
therefore they have powers. There is a very elaborated
concept behind
this, the present article will try to simplify things and go to
the
main ideas and practices regarding the tantric Mantras.
Many times in
the specific literature, Tantra Yoga is called Mantra Yoga,
this is to
acknowledge that Mantra Yoga is a central part of Tantra
Yoga.

The practice is used in India at the popular level, in villages

and
day to day life. Higher practices of Mantras are however,
restricted
to a few people who have access to old documents and who
according to
the tradition have evolved to be able to use Mantra Yoga in
a creative
way. Certain Guru-s do also initiate in Mantra Yoga of higher
level,
almost any initiation do contain a Mantra initiation. In the
Shaiva
tradition of India, the usual Mantra is Om Namah Shivaya,
other
traditions like the vedic one use Gayatri, the most sacred
vedic
Mantra of twenty-four syllables arranged as a triplet of eight
syllables each.

What is said about the tantric Mantras is that they produce

results
rapidly. The effects are almost instantaneous, therefore a
great deal
is paid to keep them secret to a certain degree. It was
Arthur Avalon
(Sir John Woodroffe) who started for the western culture, a
systematic
study of Tantra, because of his experiences with Mantras
while he was
a judge in Calcutta. He was so astonished by the effects of
Mantras on
him, that he later became a great scholar and made
remarkable services
to humanity by preserving manuscripts and doing unique
translations
(with the help of some Brahmins). What is actually the idea
behind
practices with Mantras?

Mantra as meditation technique

The practice of Mantra Yoga leads to a state of meditation.

The
popular cultures see meditation as a kind of state in which
the
recipient is somehow "lost" in other world (a 'transcendental
world'),
unable to have a perception of what it is in the world of
immediate
perception. This is however a simplistic way of seeing
meditation.
Meditation (Dhyana) comes from the Sanskrit root 'dhyai'
which means
'to imagine, to contemplate'. The most important things to
know about
meditation is that it is an active state, the awareness as
unbroken
state of flow of thoughts, a process of expansion of
consciousness in
which time (represented by Shiva) is united with space
(represented by
Shakti).

The state obtained by meditation is called Pratyakshatva

(Pratyaksatva) a state of conscious continuous perception.
Although
the conscious perception can be focused on many things, the
fundamental idea behind meditation and Mantras is that
they produce an
active state of perception, an awareness call 'transcendental'
only as
far as does transcend the ordinary perception, but has
nothing to do
with transcending any world. It is in short a refined way of
experiencing our world.

The concept behind the sacred sounds

We cannot elaborate about the sacred sounds without

bringing the deity
(Deva or Devata) concept into the attention. It is in this idea
that
Mantra practices have developed over many centuries, from
the dawn of
humankind. A deity, as is understood in the Indian tradition,
is a
manifestation or function of the Universal Consciousness
(known as
Cit). The fundamental idea about deities is that they
manifest both
externally and internally as far as the human body is
concerned. As
such, they become accessible through cognition and
experience, they
are seen as sentient to a certain degree.

It is on these lines where Mantras do make a connection

between a
practitioner and a certain deity. Mantra is thus a sacred
formula as a
subtle form of a deity as sound or vibration, an expression of
that
part of consciousness represented by the deity. The range of
Mantras
is extremely wide since the range of those manifestations is
wide,
extending from the world of humans to the world of
Brahman, the
Supreme Consciousness. It follows nevertheless that
according to this
concept there are no limits in accessing anything in the
world of
manifestations of Brahman. This is indeed astonishing.
Mantra provides
thus, with the right tool to access the manifestations of
Gods, and
know the principles behind, in order to increase own
freedom.

Deities and their Mantras

Deities have certain functions to perform. By practicing with

a Mantra
for a specific deity, a practitioner gets closer and closer to
that
deity, thus sharing in the good qualities of that deity. To
start
with, is the elephant-headed god Ganesha. Mantra related to
Ganesha is
Gam (or Gang). By practicing with this Mantra a Sadhaka
(practitioner)
overcomes the obstacles in life, as overcoming obstacles is
one of the
main functions of god Ganesha. Similarly Saraswati
represents
learning, arts, artistic sensibility.

Below is a table to show deities and their Mantras:

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Deity .......................................Mantra
......................Comments
(Function)
(Name)

Ganesha (D) ......................Gam (Gang)

..................Protection, success
Kali (D) ..............................Krim (Kring)
.................Protection, liberation, victory
Krishna (D) ........................Klim (Kling)
..................Love, attraction, bliss
Lakshmi (D) .......................Shrim (Shring)
.............Prosperity, wealth, beauty
Rama (D) ..........................Rama, Rama, Rama
....Courage,
justice, marriage and love
Saraswati (D) ...................Aim (Aing) ....................Arts,
sensibility, music, knowledge
Shakti (D) ..........................Hrim (Hring) ...............Good
qualities, energy, family values
Shiva (D) ................Hum, Om Namah Shivaya
.....Protection,
liberation, awareness

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The above table lists only a few Mantras, the most famous,
known for
great effects in specific areas. There are many combinations
leading
to more specific results (Note 2). Out of all, the most
celebrated is
Mantra Om (Ong), the sound going towards absorption, i.e.
going back
to the source of manifestation (Bindu). However, the
supreme Mantra,
the most secret, is known as Panchadashakshari, or the
Mantra having
15 syllables. It is forbidden to be revealed, only in special
circumstances a high profile spiritual master can initiate
somebody in
this Mantra. It is said that by practicing with this Mantra
liberation
is at hand and anything can be achieved.

Precautions and effects

An aspirant to the practice of Mantra Yoga with Bija Mantras

has to be
warned that Mantras are not to play with. The consequences
of a
practice can have a great impact in somebody's life and
people around
that person. As I have seen so far from literature and own
experience,
there are big changes in somebody's life by practicing with
Bija
Mantras. There is a great temptation to experiment and try
the effects
of Bija Mantras, but the practice has to be done with
caution.
Firstly, Mantras do induce a certain state of consciousness,
we might
even say a certain state of sub-consciousness we are not
aware about.
Consequently, there are result of surprises and wonders.
Consciousness
is thus enhanced towards a certain direction, the practitioner
is
'carried away' by the vibration. However, this might sound
unrealistic
unless we try and experience the new consciousness induced
by Mantra
practice.
The practice

Mantra practice goes in spiral bringing the mind closer and

closer to
the source of the sound, thus creating a link between the
practitioner
and that deity, principle or function. In a quite place, a
practitioner sits comfortable and starts to pronounce that
Mantra
approx. with the same speed as the ordinary speech or less.
During
Mantra practice many ideas invade the mind, they should be
left to
manifest but the pronunciation of Mantra has to continue all
the time.
Those invading ideas come in front in order to be eliminated.
They are
usually negative ideas, experiences and worries the
practitioner has.

The practice is done twice a day at approx. the same hour

for about 20
to 30 minutes each. The end of practice is by gently coming
out after
stopping the Mantra pronunciation, open an eye, then move
a finger. In
short the transition to the external world is made gently.
Mantra is
best practiced in conjunction with Asanas and (or)
Pranayama, but this
is not strictly necessary as Mantra Yoga has value on its
own.
Transcendental Meditation technique is a typical Mantra
Yoga
technique.

Final words
>From time to time a Mantra may be changed, in so giving
the
practitioner a new direction. This practice can be use
creatively in
many ways. If somebody wants for a specific period of time
to become
sensible, write poems, music, the right Mantra is the one for
Saraswati. If love is the desire, the Mantra is the one for
Krishna,
for family values Rama Mantra is used as Rama is the
epitome of
success in marriage. If there are problems and obstacles in
life, the
Ganesha Mantra is the one to be used. There is no harm in
practicing
with Mantras unless somebody tries to take advantage of
other people
in order to dominate, or use in negative actions, etc.
Otherwise for
anything positive in making own life full of joy and happiness
the
practice with Bija Mantras is very beneficial.

This work is a brief of main ideas regarding the Mantra

practice. It
will be enough for somebody to start an investigation or
even a
practice. There are many interesting books on this subject.
The
practice will be enough to convince somebody of this
unusual method of
acquiring enhanced states of consciousness with a clear and
creative
direction. I will conclude the work with the Mantra "Om Tat
Sat".

Notes
1. See "Siva Samhita" V, 10. A Mantra Yoga practitioner can
obtain
success after 12 years of practice.
2. See "The Tantra of the Great Liberation" (i.e.
"Mahanirvana
Tantra") by Arthur Avalon.

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The Divine Powers in
the Sound Energies and vibrations of ...

OM  , EIM , HRIM  , SHRIM  , KLIM  ,  ARHAM

HUM ,  PHAT ,  SWAHA  ,  
 KRIM , STRIM   

their meanings ,  areas of influence and

transformations which they bring ...

OM
It represents the energy at
tha Ajna chakra ,
the third eye energy center (chakra),

where the feminine and masculine currents

become joined and consciousness becomes Unitary ..
into the Whole Unity of existence.

You will have noticed that all  Mantras begin with Om .

This is because Om is the supreme sound

from which creation was born.
It is the Cosmic vibration

Om is the sound that reveals all other words

and their different meanings.
Om also has a luminous nature and reveals things.

Hence we must first contact the power of  Om for

other mantras to work and
for their specific meanings to be known.

We must first contact Om to know the Guru or

Divine guiding power within us.

Hence Om precedes all other Mantras.

Only through their connection with Om can other Mantras be

effective or be understood in their specific natures.
EIM
( Mantra -   Om Eim Namah )

Eim is a seed sound for the feminine aspect of The Divine Energy ...
the Divine Powers within GODDESS Saraswati.

This energy unfolds  spiritual knowledge and   rewards

you with   Knowledge, Science , Art , Visualising
Talents ,  Creativity , Poetry , Literature, Sculpture and such ...

HRIM
( Mantra  - Om Hrim Namah )

Hrim is a seed sound that dispels illusion in which we are

all trapped . This illusion of Life is commonly known as " Maha Maya " ,
or just " Maya " ( " A Dream state ") . the veil of creation ...

It is said that meditation on this seed sound will lift this veil and will
give the meditator a glimpse of the Universe as it is
and not as it appears to us ordinary human beings.

Hrim is a mantra of purification and transformation.

Hrim brings  inner transformation.

It dispels off our dillusions and our ignorance

in which we are trapped as human beings.

Hrim is Goddess Parvati  as well  as

Goddess Kali.

The Goddess Parvati and the Goddess Kali are the

divine forms for the Mantra - HRIM.

HRIM is one of the most important of all Mantras.

Of all mantras , Hrim is regarded as the supreme

It is called the Devi Pranav, or the equivalent of Om

Hrim refers to the heart (Hridaya).

The mantra Hrim is the  mantra of Shiva's

consort and of Maheshvari , the supreme Goddess.
It is the main mantra of the Sri Chakra
It is a single syllable easy for anyone to use.

The Devi Gita states that " All my worship can be

performed with the mantra Hrim. Of all the mantras ,
Hrim is regarded as the supreme guide.

The Mantra sounds

  Klim  and   Krim

( Mantra  -  Om  Klim  Namah )

Goddess Kali is  represented by  the mantra sound

Klim and Krim.

Klim is the aspect of Divine Energy that has the ability to

attract other energies    ( like a magnet ) .

Hence this sound energy is  used in association with

many Mantras to attract the fruits of the other
Mantra sounds that are used in them .

This speeds and increase the effectiveness of the Mantras

that use the " Klim " sound energy .

The Mantra  sound

Shrim.
Shrim is the mantra of beauty and light

Shrim brings glory and fame.

Shrim is the aspect of Divine Energy that brings abundance .
Abundance of food, friends , family , health
and prosperity .

Shrim is Godddess Laxmi , the Goddess of Wealth

and Prosperity.

The Mantra Sound

Strim.
( Mantra - Om Hrim Strim Hum Phat Svaha )
Strim is the feminine nature (stri) and provides
the power to give birth and sustenance.

 
The Mantra Sound
Sauh
(  Mantra -  Eim  Klim  Sauh )
The Divine  Energy in the sound of the syllable    " Sauh " 
is associated with  the third eye (Ajna) chakra.

It is a ' shakti '  (Power) activating sound.

The Mantra Sound

Hum
( Mantra -  Om Hum Namah )

Hum gives the power to cut through illusions

Hum is the mantra of inner fire to ward off

negative energies.
Hum provides protection.

It is also a sound with Healing Powers.

The Mantra Sound

Phat
Phat serves to concentrate the force of the mantras.

it does the work of amplifying energy

from the other seed sounds in any mantra
and hence it is common to attach this sound
at the end of many Mantras.

The Mantra Sound

Svaha.
Svaha offers  yourself  ( your surrender ) 
to your  inner fire of Awareness  That is why Most Mantras
end with   "svaha"

Here's a Powerful Mantra for healing

HUM  PHAT  SVAHA 

A Very Very Important Message Regarding Mantras 

Your outer world is governed by 

your inner world, so Divine Powers 
that are generated inside you , 
now start making all positive events
 happen in  your  life in the outer  world.

This inner world is nothing but your

intent which actually you are expressing in 
the mantra. So , here ,I wish to make the 
most valuable statement about mantras.

If you don't understand the meaning of

the mantra  you are repeating and 
what you are saying to the cosmos from
your spirit and subconscious mind, 
-   if you are not visualising this meaning 
of the mantra by feeling the meaning 
of the mantra deep within your soul ,
while saying  the mantra , then 
it is not going to benefit you much .

Most people don't even understand 

what the mantra is all about even
after using it for years , so they do not
progress much , so we encourage you
to understand the explanations we
 have given on each mantra and
which Divine Energies it is attracting
and addressing .

    You will experience that an invisible    

          Divya Shakti' , Divine energy  is      
    helping you out in everything you do