Preeti Bhatnagar. Ques: What is the difference between Mritunjaya mantra & Maha-Mritunjaya mantra? Is Gayatri mantra japa done just for the intellectual development or does Gayatri mantra help in spiritual progress as well? Kindly share. What mantra japa should I do? The one in which Beej Mantra (OM) is added that becomes Maha Mritunjaya & the one without Beej Mantra is Mritunjaya mantra. Q: 'Is Gayatri Mantra just for the intellectual development?' Absolutely! You have mentioned 'just for the intellectual development' as if development of the intellect is not important. When the intellect is sharp & highly developed then only you will understand any subject whether it is of the world or of the spiritual path. Specifically, Yoga & Vedanta philosophy cannot be understood by a poor intellect. Some of the topics are so subtle & in order to understand these subtle topics, you must posses the same subtlety of intellect. One who has poor intellect, how can he understand that - Reflected 'I' is not me but the one who is being reflected is who I am. Now see how subtle is this! The reflected conscious is not the pure conscious and the reflection is not purely conscious. The reflection of Sat-Chit-Ananda is jeeva but jeeva is not Sat-Chit-Ananda. The perception of 'I'-ness in the body is not the Self and Self is distinct from the body. Now tell me what have you understood? Therefore, certainly a sharp intellect is needed. Only that person can understand. Others will just wonder what kind of language I am speaking. I am not saying a very complicated thing. I am only telling you your own reality. I am telling you about Param-atma (Supreme Reality) but if someone does not even understand this, then whose fault is this? So in order to understand Vedas & Vedanta, a very sharp intellect is required and the one who has a sharp intellect only that person will be successful even in the materialistic world. Inventor of Apple - Steve Jobs. What his real job was... Company had terminated him. And in the garage of his house, after doing deep research, all this system of Apple phone was developed by him along with one of his friend. Mark Zuckerberg...while he was in college, in order to maintain good contact along with his friends and share thoughts with each other & to check upon each other, in order to maintain a support system, that is why Facebook was designed by him. Look where Facebook has reached today. Do you think all of this was done without a good intellect? They had a very good intellect hence they created these applications which are being used by everyone today. Can anyone become a scientist without a refined intellect? Can anyone become a good author without intelligence? That is why our intellect must certainly be good. Our rishis (seers) specifically suggested the use of this Gayatri mantra because the sound vibrations generated by this Gayatri mantra - it directly effects the functioning of your brain. One, it effects brain functioning and secondly, the vibrations generated by this mantra, when you chant this mantra... Bioelectricity vibrations are formed. These bring about profound changes in your brain. Substantial part of our brain is such that in order to make proper usage of it, these sound vibrations are imperative. Let me give you an example. Just like for removal of stone - one method is to cut open the organ where the stone is and then take it out. Second method is Lithotripsy. What is Lithotripsy? The method in which sound waves are focused towards the location of the stones due to which these stones are broken into finer pieces. This is done with sound vibrations alone. No need of any invasive techniques. So if stones can be removed with sound vibrations... One more thing I want to share. One experiment was done in neurological hospital. This was done in the United States. Where via the MRI machine, the patient who was in Coma, he was made to hear a particular music - Classical music. When he was listening to this classical music... The patient who was in Coma, the one who cannot speak, mapping of his brain activity was done. So the place where brain's center is located - brain area responsible for the enjoyment of music - that whole area was lit up. In reality he could not talk, he was unconscious. But the music that he was made to hear, from that it was concluded that the patient was experiencing joy at that moment. This particular treatment was given for some time with which the patient recovered & came out of Coma. Now-a-days science is trying to understand many things and they are even considering some of the things that were never considered before that - how is this possible? This is neurologist's... You can say, one of the magic of his intellect that he chose this method because traditionally patients are not treated this way. But it was done. So the mantra chanting impacts our body so deeply. That is why I say it over & again that for women mantra japa is like a medicine. It cures the harmonal imbalances. The sound of 'pranav'/OM... If you keep an empty room where the sound echoes & reverbrates & vibrations come back to you... By doing loud chanting of OM, it is possible that their hormonal cycle will work properly. For women specifically...it is important for men too... This ancient tradition of wearing 'tilak' in India... Now they say, 'Oh this is what Hindus do, we are not Hindu. Why should we do this?' But my dears, wearing tilak is a science. Make a tilak of sandalwood paste and put it on your bhrumadhya (centre of eyebrows). If little camphor wood is mixed in it, it is even better... if it is real sandalwood, then also it is good. Now as this sandal paste dries, at your bhrumadhya, you will feel a little stretch and it will help you to do tratak on it and help you to maintain focus on it. If someone does not wear a tilak, he will not be able to experience all this - I am not suggesting that. But if you wear tilak then your physical energies will get focused and they can help a great deal in your progress. Tilak certainly you should wear. Just a suggestion but a good one! We are humans. For our intellectual & our spiritual progress, whatever needs to be done for our upliftment, all of that should be done. And all these things, I am not just saying now. Behind these words there is a very deep research of our rishis. Their own experiences and if you happen to hear these experiences then you should certainly take benefit of these. So whether you are a Hindu or not, it does not matter to me... It is like if someone says, 'We don't want to get corona vaccine'- why? 'Because we are of this religion.' You will respond - 'Are you insane? Corona will not see your religion.' If vaccine is necessary then go ahead & take it. It has nothing to do with your religion or belief system. Similarly wearing tilak... For your spiritual & your intellectual progress, it is a very good practice. So you should do it. If you do mantra japa & tilak, it is very good. If not then it is your wish. If you are doing, you must atleast do mantra japa especially by before sunrise, after taking bath & sitting in the direction of Sun. For first 10 minutes when the Sun is just rising, at that time if you do Gayatri japa along with tratak on Sun, then this will give you wondrous benefits. This is science. What is science? Wherever there is a system which has been used and has been proved by hundreds of people or few thousand people and they have all come to one same conclusion, same result. That is called science. This practice of mantra & tilak, is prevalent in our India from thousands of years. So we should take benefit of it.
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