Word: mantra
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...best way to achieve one's inner guru is through meditation, he taught. Meditation is not repeating a mantra, but it is allowing the divinity in you to pour forth, heightening spiritual self-awareness and erasing negative conditioning. It permits concentration on one thought at a time, so that each person lives every moment to its fullest and is not sidetracked by outside worries and fantasies. Meditation is meant to give a fresh perspective to life...
Thousands of Bostonians strolled on the Common among a ten-man jazz band, clowns and belly dancers. In New York City, where the celebration was organized by Robert Redford's wife Lola, about 500 people at the United Nations Plaza droned an appropriate mantra at dawn: "Sun-nun-nun-nua ..." In Greenwich Village, eighth-grade students from St. Luke's School cooked chocolate-chip cookies and hot dogs on solar grills; at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Omega Liturgical Dance Company re-enacted a Renaissance ceremony in which a ball symbolizing the sun is passed...
...deafening volume of the drums and kartals, the sweet incense and the glistening altar seem to inspire the devotees into uncontrolled gesticulations. They are thrown into a frenzy of twirling orange robes, red ribbons, flashing kartals and airborne sweat. The entire congregation leaps on the floor, shouting the mantra, "Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare..." At the end, they fall to their knees...
...chant any of the many names of God but the most successful and easiest chant is the maha-mantra, which goes "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare." By chanting and dancing the devotees confirm the existence of their eternal souls as part of God, and their bodies as transient carriers of their souls...
Panhandlers from the International Society for Krishna Consciousness are a common sight on the streets of American cities. But at this time of year, some members of the sect exchange their saffron robes for red suits and white whiskers and begin chanting a Western mantra: "Ho, ho, ho." Santa Claus may not be a Hindu deity, but the Hare Krishna people have discovered that he has a divine power to attract charitable donations...