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SIVA
PANCHAKSHARI MANTRA
This
penta - syllablic word "NAMASIVAYA", consisting of 10
letters is a potent chant with deep 'mystic' significance. It simply
means "I bow to Siva", but it is endowed with such
mysticism and infinite power that it blesses the chanter with an
invulnerable Armour that he comes out victorious in every venture he
undertakes. Normally it
is imparted to the disciple or sadhaka by the Guru - preceptor at
the time of initiation to join into the fold of Saivism. The sadhaka
is enjoined to chant it prefixing it, with the pranava AUM
invariably. Hence twice blessed - two flowers at a single pick, in a
way. Importantly, it is one of the three Saiva emblems, the others
being smearing of sacred ash and wearing of Rudraksha mala, going by
the name of visible emblems discussed above. And the panchakshari is
a mental one, so invisible.
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