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A Magical Mantra Recital of Nainital






Among the various single word mantras for meditation and chanting, the divine name Ram is one of the most excellent and easiest to practice.

In my mystic travels through Nainital District in the summer of 2007, I learnt a particularly beautiful and rhythmic way to recite this mantra. Its effects were magical. Some of those effects have been described by me in another blog devoted to spirituality. This recitation was recently recorded by me in three YouTube videos so as to make them available to any interested person. One of them is as shown with this post.

Ancient records describe that Ram was also the favorite mantra of Lord Hanuman a divinity revered highly in Nainital, India and all over East Asia. Ancient recorded descriptions of Hanuman ji vary from nation to nation. It is because, no human can fully know or understand the divine and therefore all human words about Him and His Angels are approximate attempts. However, through love and devotion, one can sense His love as also of His Angels as well as the blessings in one’s heart. One may experience magical effects in physical life.

One can find an exhaustive summary about Lord Hanuman and his worship throughout India and East Asia in Wikipedia. Our Universe is inhabited with many different life forms and humans are neither the most evolved nor the only intelligent life form in the universe. There is greater description of this from a scientific standpoint in another blog of mine. It is only limited knowledge and ego of humans that make some think they are the only intelligent race in the universe. Even on Earth different intelligent races have appeared in past. One of them as per literature was the Vanar race. It is now extinct. This race had some characteristics similar to humans including the ability of speech like humans and some similar to monkeys that included a tail as well as some of the physical characteristics of monkeys. The Divine Hanuman to appear on Earth was born in this race.

The impact of any mantra woul differ somewhat from person to person since each personality is unique with its own storehouse of unique experiences. For me this mantra appears to drive consciousness towards divine parts of the created universe as compared to another single word Supreme mantra,  Om, that for me drives consciouness towards the eternal infinite consciousness.


Jai Ram, Jai Shri Hanuman
For a beautiful traditional rendering of this mantra please see
https://youtu.be/pBxYyJXwe8k

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