Last fortnight I received a forward-mail from a well-meaning colleague.
The mail essentially spoke about the power of Gayatri mantra and how an American scientist Dr.Howard Steingeril, collected mantras, hymns and invocations from all over the world and tested their strength in his physiology laboratory and his finding that the Gayatri Mantra produced 110,000 sound waves per second and hence the conclusion that the Gayatri Mantra was the powerful hymn in the world.
It will be presumptuous and stupid on my part to comment on Dr. Steingeril's research, experiments and findings, however I present below what according to me are/should be the attributes of a 'powerful mantra'.
Such a syllable/mantra/hymn for me is the most effective and I feel we have one such mantra which is mistakenly used more as a prefix/suffix instead of using it as THE mantra - OM – the Pranava mantra.
The mail essentially spoke about the power of Gayatri mantra and how an American scientist Dr.Howard Steingeril, collected mantras, hymns and invocations from all over the world and tested their strength in his physiology laboratory and his finding that the Gayatri Mantra produced 110,000 sound waves per second and hence the conclusion that the Gayatri Mantra was the powerful hymn in the world.
It will be presumptuous and stupid on my part to comment on Dr. Steingeril's research, experiments and findings, however I present below what according to me are/should be the attributes of a 'powerful mantra'.
- Have as few words, phrases, sentences
- Repeatable for a long period of time
- Bound(ed) within an easily chant-able/sing-able frequency range
- Easily chant-able by all age groups
- Highly natural & intuitive (almost zero training requirement)
- Feel-able internally when said/chanted
- Not lend itself to being related/relate-able to any God/Goddess/form
Such a syllable/mantra/hymn for me is the most effective and I feel we have one such mantra which is mistakenly used more as a prefix/suffix instead of using it as THE mantra - OM – the Pranava mantra.
