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    Mantra Meditation: Change Your Karma with the Power of Sacred Sound
    Mantra Meditation: Change Your Karma with the Power of Sacred Sound
    Mantra Meditation: Change Your Karma with the Power of Sacred Sound
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    Mantra Meditation: Change Your Karma with the Power of Sacred Sound

    By Thomas Ashley-Farrand

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    “Through mantra practice, positive karma flows freely into our lives … desires are fulfilled … spiritual abilities manifest … and we have moved another step forward toward moksha—complete spiritual freedom.”
    —Thomas Ashley-Farrand

    Karma: the consequence of all of your actions, decisions, thoughts, and emotions. According to Thomas Ashley-Farrand, karmic patterns from the past are always with you, affecting everything you do—for better or for worse. With Mantra Meditation, you will learn how to use genuine Sanskrit mantras to balance your chakras (your body's seven spinning energy-centers) to dissolve negative karma.

    “When you begin to chant these ancient formulas,” teaches Ashley-Farrand, “the petals on your chakras begin to resonate, and they pull in spiritual energy.” With Mantra Meditation—designed as a 40-day practice or a lifelong tool—your spiritual energy grows, your karma disperses, and your path clears to bring you everything you desire through the fusing of your own efforts and the infinite generosity of the universe.

    Includes 15 guided mantra meditations and instructions for Sanskrit pronunciation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSounds True
    Release dateJul 1, 2010
    ISBN9781591798200
    Mantra Meditation: Change Your Karma with the Power of Sacred Sound

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      Best book I ever read thanks for such wonderful work.
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      Short and to the point, great book for developing a mantra recital routine
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      informative and yet applicable to real life - thank you
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      Waste of time complicated to read. The author is jumping one thing to another thing without any relationship

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    Mantra Meditation - Thomas Ashley-Farrand

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    Acknowledgments

    Liz Williams, my agent and friend, has my gratitude for her insightful advice on a variety of projects. This book is really her doing from beginning to end. Thank you so much, Liz. But it would also not be completed with such attention to detail without the care of Sounds True producer and editor Randy Roark. I am grateful for his commitment to quality and the ease he creates in the process.

    There are people who contribute in quiet, but extremely important ways. First, my wife, Margalo, can take credit for all the books and audio products I have been able to complete. Without her support in a variety of ways, it is improbable that I would have written any books at all. Her love is an ongoing inspiration. Joseph Morales, my webmaster, has contributed countless hours of page design, graphic design, and schedule posting for sanskritmantra.com. In fact, the website was his original idea. In 1996, I had no idea what a website was. I am very, very grateful. I also want to express my gratitude to Theresa Van Zante of WMS Media for her skillful and tireless publicity work, of which I have been the happy recipient.

    Lastly, of course, my late spiritual teacher and benefactor, Sadguru Sant Keshavadas, who told me many years ago that I would be writing books and teaching. I am amazed as well as more grateful than I can adequately express. His widow, Guru Mata, continues his spiritual work with great humility. Fortunate are we who can spend time with her now and then.

    Introduction

    We are custodians of great power, but we do not think about it or sometimes even believe it. To most of us, power is something that exists outside of ourselves, and no one seems to have control over the events and conditions of his or her life. It can be an internal condition, a relationship, a chain of events, an organization ... there is always something out of our control.

    Complicating matters, there is little in the way of reference material—spiritual or otherwise—that explains what tangible, accessible power really is or how to get it. To be sure, there are many self-help books that show us how to control our habits, and develop new and better ones. There are also books that instruct us how to communicate more effectively, and build better personal and business relationships. But nowhere are there clearly defined and explained texts that tell us how we can have an immediate, powerful effect on our environment through the application of some kind of personal force.

    In the West, we are not at all accustomed to the idea of having a personal force or power. We are well aware of the power of government and other institutions. We respect and even admire the brute force of machines that power our economy. We are all becoming better informed through the power of mass media, but it, more than anything else, can convince us that real power lies outside of us. In fact, in the West we are faced with a de facto conditioning that all power is really external to the individual. Part of the lure of the computer is that it increases our sense of personal power and our impact on the world, though for all of its tremendous advantages, it is still external.

    In the East, the idea of personal power has been commonly accepted for centuries. It is a paradox that, while there is great poverty in many Eastern nations, there is also a history and legacy of great spiritual power, from Rama, Krishna, the Buddha, and others. Like Western religious leaders, these Eastern figures stated clearly that whatever they have attained, we can also attain. There are, of course, many different methods taught for accumulating personal power for spiritual and material advancement. The one that has been taught to me and that I present in this book is mantra meditation.

    Mantra meditation is not only something one practices, but a radical re-envisioning of ourselves, our lives, and our ability to create the future we desire. The principles of mantra meditation are based on a classical Eastern model of how the universe operates, and our place and purpose in it. In this model, the universe is composed of energy, and the most important thing we can do in order to manifest the kind of life we want is to tap into that energy, specifically in this case through the power of sound.

    Through the application of Sanskrit spiritual formulas, energy comes into our body that dissolves our difficulties and improves our lives. Over time, sometimes many lives, our karma—which is a term I discuss in more detail a bit later—becomes exhausted, and we become spiritually free of any worldly bondage. Then we are presented with a new set of options as evolving entities.

    Among the many mantras that have been recorded by sages and mystics, some of which have come to the West, I have selected and categorized a few that are the most useful in pursuing the classical Eastern aims of human existence: prosperity, worldly desires, ethical and noble development, and spiritual fulfillment leading to liberation. Those goals are explained in subsequent chapters, but for now, know that with mantras you can begin to shape the outer manifestations of your life.

    So powerful are these ancient tools that they were intentionally hidden by the Brahman priesthood for centuries. It is only in the last century that the lid has come off, and teachers have come from India and Tibet to share their spiritual wealth with students in the West, many of them the teachers’ former students from previous lives. Collectively, this spiritual work will ultimately reshape the planet, but in the short term, you can fulfill some of your most cherished desires and have a better life.

    Mantra meditation is not magic, but the results can be magical. Through the practice of a daily discipline that is simple and easy to use—customarily over a period of forty days—anyone can learn how to organize some of the fundamental energies of the universe to directly affect his or her specific concerns.

    People have healed themselves or family members using mantra as a tool to guide them to proper health practitioners and methods. New relationships have appeared, satisfying long-standing desires. Better jobs have been secured,

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