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Old 13-03-2021, 12:01 PM
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Shivratri

Why Shivratri is important night in Hinduism.
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Old 13-03-2021, 02:35 PM
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Why Shivratri is important night in Hinduism.

This link from art of living has more info on this. It should help.
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Old 13-03-2021, 02:58 PM
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I did participate to group meditations that night on a few occasions reciting all night OM Namah Shivaya. The vibrations followed me for days, weeks, after.

A very nice experience indeed.
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Old 13-03-2021, 03:14 PM
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I did participate to group meditations that night on a few occasions reciting all night OM Namah Shivaya. The vibrations followed me for days, weeks, after.

A very nice experience indeed.

I frequently play the OM Namah Shivaya chant. The vibration is awesome !
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Old 13-03-2021, 04:30 PM
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Hello Still Waters,

It has been a while.

Yes mantras are great tools, like a finger pointing to an object in the sky. If one stops looking at the finger to look at the object pointed. Then the vibration being the mantra will show itself as it is.

Old sanskrit ''Alphabet" was in touch with basic sound frequencies of the Manifestation. We lost all that with our English or French alphabet. Each letter pronounced apart do not mean anything anymore.

Here is a nice video in Cymatics studying the effect on water of the sound OM well pronounced. Maybe we will return to creating an alphabet that means something as this science of Cymatics evolves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36eJQcXwpbY

Enjoy!
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Old 13-03-2021, 04:32 PM
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In general ॐ नमः शिवाय means “I Bow down to Shiva”, so, in a way, it means bowing down to your own self as Shiva
resides in all as own consciousness.
The mantra is said to be the five-syllable mantra, na ma si va ya;
na represents earth,
ma water,
si fire,
va air, and
ya ether.
For newbies to this.
Legrand - interesting, your visual link!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhLLsZiD478

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmNjc_EzQx8
1008 times! 11 hours!
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Old 13-03-2021, 04:56 PM
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The chanting in this links brings me back to those Shivrati nights chanting the mantra.

The first time I went to one, I had difficulty understanding why they put all the women on one side of the room and the men on the other side. But as the two group where echoing the mantra to each other all night, it did bring a nice energy in the room.

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Old 14-03-2021, 05:25 PM
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Hello Still Waters,

It has been a while.

Yes mantras are great tools, like a finger pointing to an object in the sky. If one stops looking at the finger to look at the object pointed. Then the vibration being the mantra will show itself as it is.

Old sanskrit ''Alphabet" was in touch with basic sound frequencies of the Manifestation. We lost all that with our English or French alphabet. Each letter pronounced apart do not mean anything anymore.

Here is a nice video in Cymatics studying the effect on water of the sound OM well pronounced. Maybe we will return to creating an alphabet that means something as this science of Cymatics evolves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36eJQcXwpbY

Enjoy!

Personally, I love the OM chant.

OM Namah Shivaya ---> OM ---> stillness.
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Old 14-03-2021, 05:28 PM
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In general ॐ नमः शिवाय means “I Bow down to Shiva”, so, in a way, it means bowing down to your own self as Shiva
resides in all as own consciousness.
The mantra is said to be the five-syllable mantra, na ma si va ya;
na represents earth,
ma water,
si fire,
va air, and
ya ether.
For newbies to this.
Legrand - interesting, your visual link!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhLLsZiD478

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmNjc_EzQx8
1008 times! 11 hours!

I love the OM Namah Shivaya chant ...but had never heard the interpretation with the various elements in it. Interesting.
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Old 17-03-2021, 07:39 AM
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Thanks all for kind information.
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