Mantra Yoga/Japa

[IcyCosmic]

Namaste.
I'm really starting to enjoy Mantra Yoga/Japa and was wondering if someone could direct me to some detailed sources about this art and also specific sections of scriptures explaining potent details about it if possible.
I did google searches but what I found was mostly surface level generic material. Thanks.

[Eastern Mind]

Namaste.
I'm really starting to enjoy Mantra Yoga/Japa and was wondering if someone could direct me to some detailed sources about this art and also specific sections of scriptures explaining potent details about it if possible.
I did google searches but what I found was mostly surface level generic material. Thanks.

Vannakkam Icy: Push the beads with the thumb to roll them over the middle finger of right hand. You probably know this already, but I see people using beads in many different ways.

Aum Namasivaya

[IcyCosmic]

Namaste EM,
I am indeed already using the technique you have described.
I'm trying to find material like you could for any other fleshed out school of thought in Hinduism; like Advaita/Dvaita, or any of the popular forms of Yoga, Hatha, Kundalini, or Patanjali. Whatever it may be.

All the information I'm unearthing about Mantra Yoga/Japa is very generic and often contradictory. (With the exception of something I found about Ramani Maharshis technique).

Perhaps one of the Upanishads such as Madukya has more information?

[Eastern Mind]

All the information I'm unearthing about Mantra Yoga/Japa is very generic and often contradictory. (With the exception of something I found about Ramani Maharshis technique).

Vannakkam Icy: Most likely one of the problems you are experiencing in finding information is that Japa is often related to an initiation into doing it, and the instructions would be passed on orally from teacher to shishya. Of course this may vary right down to the individual student, not just the sampradaya.

Aum Namasivaya

[IcyCosmic]

Vannakkam Icy: Most likely one of the problems you are experiencing in finding information is that Japa is often related to an initiation into doing it, and the instructions would be passed on orally from teacher to shishya. Of course this may vary right down to the individual student, not just the sampradaya.

Aum Namasivaya

I assumed so.
Wish there was more widely available..

[IcyCosmic]

Namaste

All the Astika schools of Hinduism accept Mantra as a legitimate means to get closer to deities?
I assume so because, its potency is in the Upanshads & therefore will be in the Vedas.

I've also been contemplating Yajvan's well example in the other thread. I miss various gods all the time. I always feel gravity towards deities in my day to day life. It is very odd. It doesn't come with a stimulus like reading about a certain deity. It's random. Sometimes I feel drawn to worship Ganesha, and other times Hanuman, then very randomly other times Katyayani & so on...Even though in my lonesome or when I personally ''speak'' to god; it is always Lord Shiva. So it doesn't cause any disconnect between me and istadevta.

EM-ji does Saivism for example permit the freedom to speak to and worship other gods while having Lord Shiva seated as the ''supreme'' manifestation.

This is all so interesting. I know that one mantra may be the most benefical, but I always pray to various gods, so doing mala jaapa of more than one when I feel like it can't be to bad....

If we ascertain the view that all deities are a manifestation of the supreme, then surely it is the same thing...