Article #89
Subject: Prayer for heaven on/in earth
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 2/11/2009 12:33:22 PM

OM Purnam Adah
OM Puranm Idam
OM Purnat Purnam Udachyate
Purnasya Purnam Adaya
Purnam eva vashishyate.
OM Shanti Shanti Shantum

translation of words by Andrew

O God that is heaven (fullness of God's peace and joy, completeness of truth
in us)
O God this is heaven
O God this heaven arose from that heaven
and when that heaven (or this heaven) is taken away
this heaven and that heaven shall remain
Peace be unto me, may Peace be unto you, may Peace be unto both of us.

Article #115
Subject: First Brahmana, Chapter V Brihad.. Upanishad
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 3/16/2009 12:40:49 PM

The Brihadarannyaka Upanishad, continues on with this fundamental teaching
mantra*:

OM kham Brahma, kham Purnam, vaayuram Kham, iti ha smaaha
Kauranvyaayani-putrah:

Oh AUM Creator God of space and air:
eternal space is Brahma (the physical presence of God being
the concept of ether inside of us as a symbol of …
God being an etneral reality of consciousnes, love,
Good will, knowledge and action),
Air is space (the physical presence of God in air
also being the concept of eternal air in the eternal space)
Said the Son of Kuaravyyani,

Vedoysm Brahmana viduh; vedainena yad veditavyam;

The seekers of Brahman have known that OM is the fundamental
means of knowing it (Brahman) and the Vedas (Holy Scriptures),
Since through it one knows that which is to be known.
If you understand this, you will understand all else.

Cf: The Brihadararnyaka Upanishad
Published by the
Divine Life Society and written down translated for us by

by Swami Sivanandaji
And also Swami Krishnanandaji,

Article #121
Subject: Love and Truth shall kiss
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 3/23/2009 08:47:16 AM

next in the Upanishad comes the mantra:

DA…DA…DA… (to give, give, give)

God’s Tree of Eternal Life will grow in us and Our Father wisdom in heaven
and Our Mother Mary, spiritual understanding in heaven, shall become One and
have a child called Love and Truth (HRIDAYA and SATYAM). In its Chapter V*,
the Brihadarankaya Upanishad explains how this happens through first
meditating on the initial sounds (da…da…da) of the Sanskrit words damyatta,
datta, and dayadhvam whose meaning are restraint, charity, and compassion(the
advice being given to three different types of beings...Gods, demons,and
ordinary people). "Demons are those beings among us and inside of us who are
too greedy and passionate. The practice of self-control and restraint will
gradually eliminate any particularisation and extroversion, the main
obstacles for universalisation. The practice of charity will gradually remove
our greed for the finitude of sense objects, for name and fame. The practice
of compassion will gradually remove any traits in us that feel happy over
other's misery."

Then, we meditate contemplate the mantra that comes from desconstructing the
meaning of the Sanskrit word HRI (to bring)…DA (to give)…YA( to go).

For, if we cannot find God inside of the human heart… then we cannot find him
anywhere. But, if we can find him there, we can find him anywhere.

Then follows our meditation on the Sanskrit word for Truth SATYAM* which is
made up of SAT (gross matter) and TYAT(subtle matter).

SA is one syllable, TI is one syllable, YA or YAM is one syllable. SA and
YAM are the beginning and end, the alpha and the omega (the ground and
relational) parts of Truth, TI (representing the contingency of our the daily
world we live in and rebirth in it) is untruth. So, in this meditation from
the Holy scriptures, SA and YAM represent absolute truth. which is called
RRITAM elsewhere in the Vedas, and TI relative truth.


Cf: Our translation follows that in “The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad”, Swami
Sivanandaji, The Divine Life Trust Society, Sivanandanagar, Himalayas, India,
Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy Press, 1985.

Article #142
Subject: Final chants
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 5/22/2009 11:06:52 AM

The above chants (which help us see God and Christ inside of all of us)often
take years of practice before they bear fruit. If you attempt them you will
find that "If you cannot find God inside of the human heart...then you cannot
find him anywhere. But, if you can find him there...you can find him
anywhere."
When you understand this then you are ready to go to the final chants:

"The devotee of God should purify his praana (breath) by practicing
praannaayaama with inhalation, retention, and exhalation. he should listen
inwardly to the OM-sound emanating from the heart, bringing it up with the
praana and letting it re-enter the heart. He should practice thus, doing ten
rounds of praannaayaama. If he does this thrice a day he will gain control
over praanna. Then, he should visulise an inverted lotus in his heart, with
eight petals and with the sun, moon, and fire on its pericarp. In the centre
of the fire he should contemplate my (God's) form. Withdrawing all the rays
of the mind from their waywardness, he should focus them on me (saying OM
namah Jesus Christ, OM paramahamsa namaha, or OM Haraye namaha can help
here). After thus contemplating the entire form (of God as it appears as part
of the Trinity in the form of the Holy Spirit/Son of God to the one
worshipping)
he should focus his mind on my face (God's face as His Holy Spirit inside and
part of himself) alone. When it is thus concentrated he should contemplate my
omnipresence as space (this has also already been done already above). At
last (finally) abandoning even that, he should not think at all (chanting the
words Yogash chitta vrriti nirodha can help with this). When the mind is thus
completely merged in the self (and God as a blessed part of the self) all
miconceptions giving rise to diversity will disappear. "

from "The Concise Srimad Bhagavatam" Book Eleven chapter 14, translated by
Swami Venkatesananda...which a few additional notes by Swami Andrew Harrell.

Article #143
Subject: in, hold, out, hold sequence of syllables in prayer chants of the Trinity
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 5/22/2009 12:43:57 PM

out hold in hold out hold in hold out hold in hold out hold in hold out hold
OM Pa ram a ham sa Na ma ha

5 times

out hold in hold out hold in hold out hold in hold out hold in hold out
OM Ha ra ye Na ma ha

5 times

out hold in hold out hold in hold out hold in hold out hold in hold

OM Je sus Chr ri st


out hold in hold out hold
Na ma ha

5 times