Home » Spirituality » Respected Sir, I am not able to decide which word to take for japa: “Maa” or “Om”. Please clarify. 📿🙏🏻
Both are wonderful and universal mantras, not requiring a guru to transmit it. To me, Maa connects better as it includes the heart and life and all existence with a very personal chord, even though universal and transcendent in its meaning and power. Om is the All-containing Absolute, impersonal and universal.
Go by what you feel in the heart naturally and spontaneously.
Affectionately,
Alok da
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Arpan means to give, samarpan means to give completely without reserve.
To give means now one has left the situation, the difficulty, the problem entirely in the hands of the Divine. It means that one now obeys the Divine Will alone and lives no more for the satisfaction of one’s ego and desires….
Here is the complete Durga Stotra. You can see for yourself.
‘Hymn to Durga
(দুর্গা-স্তোত্র)
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Mother Durga! Rider on the lion, giver of all strength, Mother, beloved of Siva! We born from thy parts of Power, we the youth of India, are seated here in thy temple. Listen, O Mother, descend upon earth, make thyself manifest in this land of India.
Yes, these are dreams surging from the subconscient. Some, like the one about your friend seems a veiled wish fulfilment. Certain desires get exhausted subjectively in this way.