हरे राम कृष्ण

Many years ago, after my Buddhist Vajra initiation, I was taught some very interesting meditation techniques which included mudras, invocation, and visualization. These techniques helped me a great deal back then and even today, as I meditate and chant my mantras on a regular basis.

About a year go I had a conversation with my Jyotish Guru in regards to the order in which mantras should be chanted, particularly the Guru Parampara mantra and those mantras used for daily practice or as a long-term remedy for certain doshas. The following is an extract from that conversation, which adds more understanding to my meditation practice.

Some people do the Parampara mantra before getting out of bed, even before touching the ground. The order of the mantras is based on chakras:

Ganesha, sitting in the Muladhara chakra at the root or first chakra. Following is Swadhisthana chakra where Krishna can be worshiped in one particular form, but most people skip this chakra, Kamadevata sits here.

Then we go to Manipura chakra in the stomach area where the Sun is worshiped or even the Gayatri mantra. Then we go to the Anahata chakra or heart chakra where Vishnu is worshiped. Then to the throat chakra (Vishuddha) where in which Devi is worshiped. This particular chakra is where Devi sits with Shiva because is like the student and the teacher seating together discussing, so also Shiva and Gauri are a symbolism of the student and the teacher discussing. Therefore, when we do the Devy mantra we are actually making ourselves very good students of this world. If one however is doing Devi Mantras as a focus point, then these Devi mantras are instead done at the end because normally at the end, in the third eye (Anja chakra) we have Shiva. In the end Shiva should be worshiped, always. But sometimes people reverse the order of Shiva and Shakti, Shiva and Devi based on the focus. If the focus is Devi we put that in the end, if the focus is Shiva we put Shiva in the end.

The 7th chakra is the Sahasra. The appropriate term is the Sahasrara, and it means a thousand ras. Ra is light, like agni, fire. A thousand agnis’ are sitting in the top or crown chakra, Sahasrara chakra. How to worship this chakra? The Guru is worship here as the first thing. This means that the first thing we do is the top chakra, and then we go down to the bottom chakra. Actually, what we are doing is, if the top chakra is not opened the other chakras will not open either. So the first thing we do every morning is that we worship the Guru on our head. We actually meditate on the Guru, seated, without any complexion, as if it's just a white frame of the Guru seated on the top of our heads on the Sahasrara chakra, seated on a thousand petals lotus, completely clad in white and meditating in a lotus posture, and then when we are thinking about that we recite the mantra for our Guru at least 108 times to begin with and increasing it and making it your focus with time. Then, only after that do we go to Ganesh (Muladhara), because then only, will the Guru allow the other chakras to open. This is the importance of Guru. When you get a mantra from your Satguru or spiritual master, it will be to open that chakra, and then you will do that mantra first in the morning.

Depending on the practice, some people will go to the Muladhara chakra after opening the Sahasrara chakra and then work their way up to the Anja chakra, while others will go down to Anja, Vishuddha, etc.

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