Mantras Quotes - Page 8

Feel your prayers, feel your mantra and you will feel God.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Prayer, Meditation, Feels

Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri, Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (2014). “From Amma's Heart”, p.119, M A Center

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If you are unable to meditate, chant your mantra or sing bhajans.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Bhajans, Meditation, Ifs

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Children, pray for the good of everyone. We should pray to God to give a good mind even to those who harm us. One cannot sleep peacefully when there is a theif in the neighborhood. Likewise, when we pray for the well-being of others, it is we who gain peace and quietude. Children, the mantra 'Loka samasta sukhino bhavantu' should be chanted at least once daily.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Children, Sleep, Giving

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Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the ocean of transmigration, the cycle of birth and death. The mantra is the oar of the boat; it is the instrument you use to cross the samsara of your restless mind, with its unending thought waves. The mantra can also be compared to a ladder that you climb to reach the heights of God realization.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Ocean, Restless Mind, Names

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Children, set aside at least half an hour in the morning and in the evening for spiritual practices. After bathing in the morning, a family should sit together and worship. Archana may be performed by chanting the 108 or 1000 Names of Devi or our chosen deity. We can also chant our mantra, meditate or sing hymns at this time.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Spiritual, Morning, Children

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Chant your mantra while engaged in work. This way, the mind will be continuously focused on Him.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Meditation, Mind, Way

Twitter post from Dec 05, 2012

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Children, in the present dark age of materialism, chanting the mantra is the easiest way for us to obtain inner purification and concentration. Japa can be done at any time, anywhere, without observing any rule regarding the purity of mind and body. Japa can be done while engaged in any task.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Children, Dark, Meditation

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Deciding to chant the mantra a certain number of times daily will help foster the japa habit. We should always keep a rosary with us for doing japa. A rosary can be made of 108, 54, 27 or 18 beads of rudraksha, tulsi, crystal, sandalwood, gems, etc, with one 'guru bead'. We should resolve to chant a certain number of rosaries (rounds) daily.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Numbers, Meditation, Rosary

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It is always advisable to obtain a mantra from a self-realized master. Until then we may use one of the mantras of our beloved deity like 'Om Namah Shivaya', 'Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya', 'Om Namo Narayanaya', 'Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare, Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare', 'Om Shivashaktyaikya Rupinyai Namaha' or even the names of Christ, Allah or Buddha.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Self, Names, Meditation

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It is a good practice to write at least on page of mantra daily. Many people get better concentration by writing than by chanting. Try also to inculcate in children the habit of chanting and neatly writing the mantra. This will help to improve their handwriting, too. The book in which the mantra is written should not be thrown around; it should be carefully kept in our meditation or shrine room.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Children, Book, Writing

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When doing archana (daily prayers) as a group, one person should chant the mantra and the others should repeat it. Mantras should be chanted slowly, clearly and with devotion.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Prayer, Meditation, Groups

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Do not get up immediately at the end of the archana. The beloved deity should be brought from the seat in front of us back into our hearts and re-installed there. Seeing the form of the deity seated in the heart, meditate for a little longer. If it is possible, it is good to sing 2 or 3 kirtans. After taking an injection, a patient is asked to rest for a few minutes to let the medicine spread throughout the body. Similarly, to obtain the full benefit of the mantras, we should keep the mind calm for a while after worship.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Heart, Medicine, Meditation

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In the beginning, not everyone may be able to clearly repeat every mantra in the 1000 Names. In that case, everyone can respond to the chants with just one mantra. While chanting the 1000 Names, the response may be 'Om Parashaktyai Namaha' or 'Om Sivasaktyaikya Rupinyai Namaha'.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Names, Meditation, May

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Food should be consumed while chanting your mantra inwardly. This will purify the food and the mind at the same time.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Food, Mind, Should

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My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

Taylor Dane

Teacher, Parent, Needs

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I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

Jonathan Ames

Worry, Age, Needs

"Jonathan Ames Talks HBO’s “Bored To Death,” Life In Brooklyn, And Wanting To Be Like Matt Damon". Interview with David Weiner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

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My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not.

Alton Brown

People, Giving, Way

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I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

John Garamendi

Reform, Campaigns, Care

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On the one hand, we're constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three weeks after the last one you bought. It's absolutely insane. We've been suckered into buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading. We're being given two very different mantras at the moment, I think.

Martin Freeman

Cutting, Thinking, Hands

"Martin Freeman: 'I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised'". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2010.

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The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

Michael Lee-Chin

Successful, Commercial Banks, Jamaica

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Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

Barbara Olson

Mistake, Als, Next

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My mantra has always been to have zero regrets in life. Everything I do at one speed, I go all-out.

Apolo Ohno

Zero, Regret, Speed

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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!

Gail Simmons

Knowing, Meals, Good Things

"Gail Simmons Dishes on Top Chef and More". Interview with Emily Hebert, www.elle.com. April 29, 2011.

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Initially the student, in some traditions, is given a mantra, a particular word of power to focus on. While thoughts are cascading through your mind during meditation, you should be absorbed in the repetition of a mantra.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Focus, Meditation

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I listen to pop music and it sounds like mantra to me, there's this power to it. There's also something to be said about how it reaches people on a mass level, there's some magic to that.

Taraka Larson

People, Magic, Sound

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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