Whether you use meditation mantras, healing mantras, powerful mantras invoking power words through sound, the use of mantras are effective and healing.
The word mantra comes from the Sanskrit root "man" to think and "tra" suggesting instrumentality. The word mantra can mean prayer, hymn, plan.
The powerful nature of mantras, the healing mantras and meditation mantras used to perosnal or collective ends is due mainly to the sacred intention and focus that is given them through repetition and devotional practice.
Often mantras are handed down by gurus and teachers who understand the power words within mantras. Yoga mantras are often collected from innumerable sources such as Hindu mantras, Buddhist mantras, Vedic mantras and other Sanskrit mantras.
Popular mantras from many tradtions: Om Mane Padme Hum - Om Nama Shiva (Om Namaha Shivaya)- version 2 - version 3 - Kali Mantra - Surya Mantras - Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra
Probably the most well known mantra is the Om mantra. There are many versions of this mantra available in CD form. Two highly recommended versions are Hein Braat's Om Mantra which features the Tibetan Mantra Om Mane Padme Hum also. The other one is from Savita Yoga whose classical rendition makes it a perfect to use for meditation mantras.
Download free mantras in mp3 from Savita with many popular mantras
The Gayatri Mantra is a universal mantra for change and chanting this sacred healing mantra originally from India has been testified by many millions of people to confer powerful change and shakti (energy) from its incantation.
Some highly recommended versions are Hein Braat's, a classic Indian mantra version and Deva Premal's modern interpretations.
Tapping into the shakti energy of the great Goddess can be experienced in the Kali Mantra - Hein Braat's version can be heard here.
Using meditation mantras to focus one's meditation, to contemplate the particular deity or divine nature of a meditation, increases the mantra's power words even though in many cases the sanskrit mantras are unknown to the chanter.
Why is this? Because it is the vibrational quality, its innumerably repeated intention and the devotion and surrender that comes from this that creates the benefits derived from mantra chanting.
To illustrate this, there has been an urban legend making the rounds for many years that a mantra chant version of the Maha Mrityunjaya (Mrityonjaya) mantra was chanted by the Dalai Lama (see story) . Many people credited their healing from this chant to the Dali Lama himself. However it transpires that Hein Braat was the chant master on this bootlegged version! Funny how although his meditation mantra chanting is superb the healing process still took effect even though the attribution was mistaken.
Another great chant master whose meditation mantras have been enjoyed by thousands is Krishna Das. His chanting workshops and concerts are well attended the world over.
Another very successful mantra chant expert is Craig Pruess. Craig, born in the USA and living in the UK has, apart from his phenomenal success as an Oscar nominated film musician, broughtsome of the most treasured Hindu mantras to the wider public with his devotional meditation mantras and love mantras.
