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Nirmala Vidya
Dedicated to Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Our beloved Divine Mother The source of all knowledge and all prayer
Mantras in Sahaja Yoga
Mantra table for the chakras
The Affirmations
The Mūlādhāra Chakra
Shrī Ganesha Atharva Shīrsha
Aum – To the divine essence of prayer
How to awaken Shrī Ganesha’s power within you
The 12 holy names of Shrī Ganesha
The 108 holy names of Shrī Ganesha
108 invocations to Shrī Ganesha
The 108 holy names of Shrī Kārtikeya
Shrī Bhūmi Devī Vandanā
Prayer to Shrī Bhūmi Devī
The Swādhishthāna Chakra
The 21 holy names of Shrī Brahmadeva-Saraswatī
Shrī Saraswatī Vandanā
Gāyatri Mantra
The 5 holy names of Hazrat-Ãli
The Nābhī (Manipūr) Chakra
The 10 holy names of Shrī Lakshmī
The 108 holy names of Shrī Lakshmī
The 108 holy names of the Goddess Athena
The 62 holy names of Hazrat Fāṭima Az-Zahra
Prayer to Shrī Rāja Lakshmī
Prayer to Shrī Santāna Lakshmī
The 10 holy names of Shrī Vishnu
The 108 holy names of Shrī Vishnu
Praise to Shrī Vishnu
The Bhava-sāgara (Void)
The 10 Primordial Masters (Ādi Gurūs)
The 108 holy names of Shrī Ādi Gurū Dattātreya
The 113 holy names of the Sat-gurū
The Left Heart (Anāhata) Chakra
The 108 holy names of Shrī Shiva
Prayer to Shri Shiva
Tad Nishkala by Shrī Ādi Shaṅkarāchārya
The 108 holy names of Shrī Gaṅgā Mātā
The Centre Heart (Anāhata) Chakra
The 9 holy names of Shrī Durgā Mātā
The 32 holy names of Shrī Durgā Mātā
The 108 holy names of Shrī Durgā Mātā
Kavach of the Devī
Shrī-Devī Atharva-Shīrsham
Devī Sūktam
Prayer to the Devī
Psalm 23 – a psalm of David
The Right Heart (Anāhata) Chakra
The 16 holy names of Shrī Rāma
The 108 holy names of Shrī Rāma
Kavach of Shrī Rāma
The Vishuddhi Chakra
The 16 holy names of Shrī Rādhā-Kṛishna
The 108 holy names of Shrī Kṛishna
108 invocations to Shrī Kṛishna
Bhagavad Gīta
The 69 holy names of Shrī Kubera
The 84 holy names of Shrī Vishnumāyā
The 99 holy names of Allāh
The 5 holy mantras of the Virāta
64 holy powers of the Virāta
The Āgñyā Chakra
The 108 holy names of Lord Jesus Christ
108 invocations to Lord Jesus Christ
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Mother’s Prayer
The 108 holy names of Shrī Mary-Mahālakshmī
Prayer to Shrī Buddha
The Ekādasha Rudras
Shri Mataji’s advice on Ekadasha Rudra problems
The 116 holy names of Shrī Ekādasha Rudra (Shrī Shiva)
The Sahasrāra Chakra
The Sahasrāra mantras (Mahā-mantras)
The 108 holy names of Shrī Mātājī Nirmalā Devī
The 108 holy names of Shrī Nirmalā
The 79 holy names of Shrī Rāja-rāj’eshwarī
Prayer to Shrī Rāja-rāj’eshwarī
The 21 holy names of Hazrat Al-Mahdi
64 adorations to Shrī Ādi Shakti
108 Thank You’s to our Divine Mother Shrī Mātājī Nirmalā Devī
Prayer to the Divine Mother
Prayer to Shrī Shiva-Shakti
Twameva Mātā (You are the Mother)
Sabako Duā Denā
The Left Side (Idā Nādī)
The 108 holy names of Shrī Mahākāli
The 21 holy names of Shrī Bhairava
The bīja mantras of Shrī Mahā-ganesha
The 21 holy names of Shrī Mahāvīra
Techniques for clearing the left side
The Right Side (Piṅgalā Nādī)
The 108 holy names of Shrī Hanumāna
The 108 holy qualities of Shrī Hanumāna
Shrī Hanumāna chālīsā
Shrī Māruti stotra
The 12 holy names of Shrī Sūrya
Cooling mantras for liver and right Swādhishthāna
Treatments for an over-active right side
Miscellaneous
Negativity destroying mantras
Everyday mantras
Bījā (seed) mantras and Bīj’ākshara (seed-petal) mantras
Mantra Phrases
The six enemies of the soul
Shri Yantra
The Shakti Pīthas
Havan
The three Granthis (knots of Illusion)
Aum Shānti mantra
Prayer to the Almighty
Prayer to the Mother
Morning prayer
Prayer for the Heart
Prayer for the Agnya
Like a dust particle
To My flower children
I see a mountain
Shri Mataji on meditation
Meditation at Shudy Camps, UK
Shri Mataji’s advice at Chelsham Road ashram
Are you progressing well?
You can become thoughtless
Sanskrit pronunciation guide
Arabic pronunciation guide
The Subtle System
The location of the chakras on the head
The location of the chakras on the hands
The location of the chakras on the feet
The location of the chakras on the arms and legs
Index
Nirmala Vidya
Sahaja Yoga Mantra Book
In Praise of Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Seventh Edition (2012)
First edition (1989), Second edition (1992), Third edition (1995), Fourth edition (2001), Fifth edition
(2008), Sixth Edition (2010)
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Dedicated to Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Our beloved Divine Mother
The source of all knowledge and all prayer
‘Now the name of your Mother is very powerful. You know that is the most powerful name, than all
the other names, But you must know how to take it.
With that complete dedication you have to take that name. Not like any other.’
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Sahaja yogis dedicate this work to Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Shrivastava, the
founder and teacher of Sahaja Yoga.
In so doing, it is impossible to render the heartfelt gratitude that Sahaja yogis worldwide would
wish to express to Her, the Great Mother, who expresses the qualities of the Comforter, the
Counsellor and the Redeemer. Shri Mataji has revealed the most integrated body of spiritual
knowledge, which verifies and unites the teachings of all past Avatars (incarnations) and spiritual
masters. Moreover, She has done so by relating this knowledge to a practical experience within,
through Her capacity to grant en masse Self-realisation. This feat is unprecedented in the history
of spirituality.
Through Her compassion, Shri Mataji has opened up the possibility of making this
transformational experience available to all the seekers of truth, to all those who sincerely desire
to find their own Self. Essentially, it is about being connected to the power that created us and this
experience is subtle and living. Mantras cannot be effective without this living inner connection
that awakens the Avahan, the ‘calling power’. Therefore, with full respect, the contents of this
book should be accessed only after the experience of Self-realisation and with reference to the
techniques and knowledge made freely available at Sahaja Yoga centres across the world.
The Sahaja Yoga Mantra Book was presented to Shri Mataji, blessed and approved by Her before
the international sangha during the occasion of Guru Puja in Cabella on 20 July 2008. In
addition, the texts in this book have been spiritually validated by being used in ceremonies with
Shri Mataji and accepted by Her.
On behalf of the Nirmal Intellectual Property Corporation (NIPC) and the Publication Committee
of the Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Foundation.
Mantras in Sahaja Yoga
In Sanskrit, ‘manana’ means to meditate. A mantra is that which is uttered in meditation. It is the
phonetisation of vibrations into a specific sound which has a direct effect on the inner being. When a
realised soul (a Sahaja yogi or yogini) utters a mantra, he or she mediates spiritual energy for the
specific purpose for which the mantra is intended.
Mantras as a support to meditation
Without first connecting yourself to the whole, without Self-realisation or yoga (union with the
Divine), the contents of this book will not be of much practical help.
Find a clean, quiet place. Set Shri Mataji’s picture on a table, placing a lit candle before the picture.
Sit comfortably with hands relaxed on your lap, palms upward. This might be done in conjunction
with foot-soaking. After raising your Kundalini and putting yourself in bandhan, keeping your
attention loose, see what sensations (perhaps a tingling, numbness, slight heat) you may be feeling on
your fingers or in your body at the location of the chakras. These sensations tell you where, if any, the
blockages are in your chakras. Clear them, using a bandhan and the appropriate mantras (checking
which finger or location on the hand corresponds to which chakra – “The location of the chakras on
the hands”). After some time these sensations will disappear, and you will start to feel coolness on
your hands. This means that the chakras have cleared and that Kundalini is rising unimpeded.
You may feel a cool breeze at first and then heat in the hands or in the body. This happens when the
Kundalini starts to burn away the impurities that are clogging the chakra, and is a sign of progress.
The process can be helped along by foot-soaking.
Why mantras are mostly in Sanskrit
‘We are very old ancient people. Our culture has been to know God. Everything has come in
Sanskrit, because Sanskrit is really a Deva-vani (a language of the gods). Apart from that, when
the Kundalini moves, She makes vibrations. She makes special sounds, which are Devanagari
sounds on different chakras. If I have time, I will inform you all about it. Even when you recite
mantras through the Sanskrit language or Devanagari pronunciations only, you can excite them
better: Try to learn if not Sanskrit at least Hindi, because it being a phonetic language, it has a
sound and that sound gives that vibratory effect.’
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
‘Sat-chit-ananda’, New Delhi, India, 15 Feb 1977
This edition uses a simple Sanskrit transliteration employing a Romanised text with selected accents
to help pronunciation and maximise the vibratory effect. The main accents used are: ā ū ī ṛ ñ ṅ ṁ.
Sanskrit has sixteen distinct vowels which correspond to petals of the Vishuddhi chakra (see “Bījā
(seed) mantras and Bīj’ākshara (seed-petal) mantras”, also: ‘The Powers of Kundalini’, Chelsham
Road, London, UK, 17 May 1981; Formal talk, Hampstead, London, UK, 14 October 1978).
Shri Mataji has instructed at various times that the mantras should not be said in a low bass voice, but
a little higher than the usual tone of the normal speaking voice, as this helps clear the left side. The
rhythm and the speed should be moderate, without hurrying or excessive slowness. The more people
that say the mantra together the more powerful the mantra becomes, as it resounds with the desire of
the collective. However, when there are more people, more care needs to be taken that the resulting
sound should be in unison and is gentle, clear and tuneful. It should always be remembered that the
point of the mantra is to invoke and please the deity and all care should be taken not to fall into
artificiality and ritualism. A mantra is merely a key that opens the door to the Spirit.
The use of the nominative form of Sanskrit
Sanskrit has eight cases of declension and this edition retains the familiar nominative form or first
form, so that each name appears in its original form without modification. Traditionally, this is how
the names of the deity have been presented before Shri Mataji, who Herself advised in the 1980’s to
keep the use of Sanskrit simple for the foreigners.
When we use the full mantra construction, it is linguistically correct to use the nominative form for the
name of the deity and the homage of the dative phrase ‘namo namah’ (meaning ‘I bow to’ or
‘salutations to’) falls correctly on the Devi: Aum twameva sākshāt Shrī Kalki sākshāt Shrī Ādi Shakti
Mātājī Shrī Nirmalā Devyai namo namah. This is of prime importance because in the full mantra we
proclaim the identity between Shri Mataji and the principle of that particular deity or quality, and we
recognise the principle as existing within Her Being. ‘Amen, O Divine Mother Shri Mataji, verily
You are Shri Kalki. Salutations to You!’ It is the recognition of this identity that triggers the
vibrations.
However, when for convenience sake we shorten the conventional mantra construction to Aum
twameva sākshāt Shrī Kalki namo namah, we tolerate the incorrect use of the nominative form within
a dative context. This serves to remind us that the shortened form is simply a short-hand version of the
full mantra and that the homage is due not to the specific deity, but to Shri Mataji Herself. Indeed, to
be linguistically correct, we would have to modify the nominative to either Aum twameva sākshāt
Shrī Kalkyai namo namah (dative) or Aum twameva sākshāt Shrī Kalke namo namah (vocative). This
is why we have endeavoured to follow Shri Mataji’s advice and keep things simple.
At the same time, we acknowledge the linguistic issue that arises when a name in nominative form
appears before the dative phrase ‘namo namah’ - namely that the name should be modified from the
nominative to either the dative or vocative form. So for the sake of reference, a sambodhan edition is
available on request, which makes use of the vocative or eighth form of Sanskrit and effectively
avoids the nominative-dative problem.
See full “Sanskrit pronunciation guide”.
When not to use ‘Shri’
An asterisk (*) indicates when not to use ‘Shri’ before a name. These names all relate to the
negativity destroying aspects of the deity, according to Shri Mataji’s advice to the UK collective in
1981 (while compiling the 108 names of Lord Jesus Christ) and on occasions thereafter.
For example:
*Mahish’āsura ghātinī.........................The slayer of Mahishasura
would then become:
Aum twameva sākshāt Mahish’āsura ghātinī sākshāt
Shrī Ādi Shakti Mātājī Shrī Nirmalā Devyai namo namah
Translation
The English translation of each name begins with ‘You are’ so that each name is addressed directly to
Shri Mataji. For example: Shrī Ganesha, You are Shri Ganesha.
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