The Panca Brahma Mantras
When you do the puja it is easier to do all the kalas first, and then repeat the Panca Brahma mantras for each Brahma, Visnu, Rudrra, Maha Vishnu, Sadasiva. It also gives you an opportunity to really emphasize each chakra again.
These mantras are taken from the most ancient portion of the Vedas. I cannot really give you a meaning for these mantras entirely. I can give only a few portions that I know.
Brahma Mantra:
Hgum sah sucisad vasuh antariksasad hota vedisad atithir duronasat nrasad varasad rtsad vyomasad abja goja raja adrja rtam brhat namah.
Hgum sah - is an ancient archaic form; suci means the sun; vasuh means the earth; antariksah means space; sat means the truth; hota is the one who offers the ghee into the fire; vedi is the homa kunda; atithi is the guest who comes without an appointment; duronasat nrasad - I do not know what this means; varasad is the one who gives blessings; rtsad is the flowing truth; vyomasad is the truth established in the sky; abja is to one who is born out of the waters; goja is born out of the indriyas the cognitive and active senses; rtaja is the one who is born out of the nonflowing truth; adrja is the mountain, the stability; rtam is the truth. The individual words have a meaning but why they are placed in this context or what their true meaning is I do not know. They are explaining in some sense the creation process itself. Probably if one uses this mantra and keeps repeating it one may get the perceptions about the creative process itself. It may have in it the genetic codes. That is why it is so difficult to explain.
Vishnu Mantra
Pratad visnus tavate viryaya, mrgo no bhimaha kucaro girsthah, yasyorusu trisu vikramesu, adhiksiyanti bhuvanani visva namah.
"For your power, strength, even the lion cannot be ferocious enough. Of Visnu, when the three eyes are expanded, they go beyond all that we see or have seen".
Visva is a technical term. What you are able to see in the waking state is called Visva. "Virat", "hiranya garbha" and "iswara" are the three terms and the cooresponding three terms are "visva", "taijesva" and "pragna" . These relate to experiences of an individual in the waking state, dream state and sleeping state; "virat", "hiranyagarbha" and "iswara" relate the cosmic experiences of the cosmic being in the waking, dream and sleeping states. When we say "visva" we mean all the worlds seen by an individual that go beyond those seen. They can only be perceived in the united vision, not the individual vision. What is the distinction between the universal vision and the individual vision? For instance, I am seeing you as so many people that is individual vision. But when I see myself also through your eyes at the same time, and see what you are seeing at the same time, that is the universal vision. This adhiksiyanti bhuvanani visva namah is all the worlds through the individual perceptions, it goes beyond that. Visnu is the waters of life. They exist throughout the cosmos. His characteristic is pervasiveness, expanding all over, growing beyond. That is why the yasyorusu trisu vikramesu the three dimensions in space. As they expand, whatever is seen in the three dimensions by all the individuals, your knowledge exceeds all these things. That is what the mantra of Visnu is saying.
Rudra Mantra
Tryambakam yajamahe sugandhim pusti vardhanam, urvarukamiva bandhanan mrtyormuksiya mamrtat namah.
"Urvaruka" is a snake gourd. As it becomes ripe it falls off by itself. So when one understands the tryambaka aspect of Siva, not confining oneself to the lower centers then He, Siva nourishes you in all aspects, and like the snake gourd that falls off the vine when it is ripe, He takes you away from the "mrtu", the death and gives you "amrita" the nectar. This is actually the worship of the sun. The entire Rudram is the worship of the sun, the one who attracts and gives light, the lifegiving force. It goes beyond life itself.
Maha Visnu Mantra
Tad visnoh paramam padam, sad pasyanti surayah, diviva caksur atatam, tadvipraso vipanyavo, jagrivamsah samindhate, visnoryat paramam padam namah.
"The ultimate abode of Vishnu, the knowledgeable, the always seen, like sky, the eye is wide." What it means is whereas our individual eyes are limited to seeing what is near as big and what is far away as small, for the eye as big as the universe, everything appears with the same clarity of vision. The next part I do not know what it means. Visnoryat..."That is the ultimate abode of Visnu. To that I pay my respects."
Sadsiva Mantra
Visnur yonim kalpayatu Tvasta rupani pigumsatu Asincatu prajapati Dhata garbham dadatu te Garbham dhehi sinivali Garbham dhehi sarasvati. addhattam puskaras rajah namah
This is the mantra by which the cosmos is created. Space and time are being united. This is called the Garbhadhana Mantra, which means the act of consumation. Visnur yonim kalpayatu - may Visnu create the yoni, the source of life. Tvasta rupani pigumsatu - May Tvasta, one of the aswini gods, create the forms out of what is available. Asincatu prajapati. Prajapati is a tipical name for the erect male member. It is also a name for the unit of time which the earth takes to orbit the sun. Asincatu prajapati. May that prajapati fill you with his seed. Dhata garbham dadatu te. May Dhata fertilize the egg inside of you. Garbham dhehi sinivali. Sinivali and Saraswati are the two gods our awareness is associated with the ejaculatory sphincter muscles and the receptive forces controlling the movement of the sperm towards the seed.
Garbham dhehi sarasvati. Sarasvati is the force which controls propelling the right sperm towards the seed. Garbhante asvinau devau - may the Aswini devatas who are the creators of life, addhattam puskaras rajah namah - may they put the life into the female egg.
Kunti was the mother of the pandavas. She recited this Garbha Dhana mantra keeping the idea of the various gods of the chakras and of the ajna chakra and she had six sons. First she worshipped the Ajna chakra and she had Karna. Then she worshipped Yama in the Muladhara chakra and got Dharmaraja; then she worshipped the Ashwini Devatas and got Nakula and Sahadeva; and she worshipped Vayu with this mantra and obtained Bhima. She worshipped the Sun at the Manipura chakra and got Arjuna.
When you do the puja it is easier to do all the kalas first, and then repeat the Panca Brahma mantras for each Brahma, Visnu, Rudrra, Maha Vishnu, Sadasiva. It also gives you an opportunity to really emphasize each chakra again.
These mantras are taken from the most ancient portion of the Vedas. I cannot really give you a meaning for these mantras entirely. I can give only a few portions that I know.
Brahma Mantra:
Hgum sah sucisad vasuh antariksasad hota vedisad atithir duronasat nrasad varasad rtsad vyomasad abja goja raja adrja rtam brhat namah.
Hgum sah - is an ancient archaic form; suci means the sun; vasuh means the earth; antariksah means space; sat means the truth; hota is the one who offers the ghee into the fire; vedi is the homa kunda; atithi is the guest who comes without an appointment; duronasat nrasad - I do not know what this means; varasad is the one who gives blessings; rtsad is the flowing truth; vyomasad is the truth established in the sky; abja is to one who is born out of the waters; goja is born out of the indriyas the cognitive and active senses; rtaja is the one who is born out of the nonflowing truth; adrja is the mountain, the stability; rtam is the truth. The individual words have a meaning but why they are placed in this context or what their true meaning is I do not know. They are explaining in some sense the creation process itself. Probably if one uses this mantra and keeps repeating it one may get the perceptions about the creative process itself. It may have in it the genetic codes. That is why it is so difficult to explain.
Vishnu Mantra
Pratad visnus tavate viryaya, mrgo no bhimaha kucaro girsthah, yasyorusu trisu vikramesu, adhiksiyanti bhuvanani visva namah.
"For your power, strength, even the lion cannot be ferocious enough. Of Visnu, when the three eyes are expanded, they go beyond all that we see or have seen".
Visva is a technical term. What you are able to see in the waking state is called Visva. "Virat", "hiranya garbha" and "iswara" are the three terms and the cooresponding three terms are "visva", "taijesva" and "pragna" . These relate to experiences of an individual in the waking state, dream state and sleeping state; "virat", "hiranyagarbha" and "iswara" relate the cosmic experiences of the cosmic being in the waking, dream and sleeping states. When we say "visva" we mean all the worlds seen by an individual that go beyond those seen. They can only be perceived in the united vision, not the individual vision. What is the distinction between the universal vision and the individual vision? For instance, I am seeing you as so many people that is individual vision. But when I see myself also through your eyes at the same time, and see what you are seeing at the same time, that is the universal vision. This adhiksiyanti bhuvanani visva namah is all the worlds through the individual perceptions, it goes beyond that. Visnu is the waters of life. They exist throughout the cosmos. His characteristic is pervasiveness, expanding all over, growing beyond. That is why the yasyorusu trisu vikramesu the three dimensions in space. As they expand, whatever is seen in the three dimensions by all the individuals, your knowledge exceeds all these things. That is what the mantra of Visnu is saying.
Rudra Mantra
Tryambakam yajamahe sugandhim pusti vardhanam, urvarukamiva bandhanan mrtyormuksiya mamrtat namah.
"Urvaruka" is a snake gourd. As it becomes ripe it falls off by itself. So when one understands the tryambaka aspect of Siva, not confining oneself to the lower centers then He, Siva nourishes you in all aspects, and like the snake gourd that falls off the vine when it is ripe, He takes you away from the "mrtu", the death and gives you "amrita" the nectar. This is actually the worship of the sun. The entire Rudram is the worship of the sun, the one who attracts and gives light, the lifegiving force. It goes beyond life itself.
Maha Visnu Mantra
Tad visnoh paramam padam, sad pasyanti surayah, diviva caksur atatam, tadvipraso vipanyavo, jagrivamsah samindhate, visnoryat paramam padam namah.
"The ultimate abode of Vishnu, the knowledgeable, the always seen, like sky, the eye is wide." What it means is whereas our individual eyes are limited to seeing what is near as big and what is far away as small, for the eye as big as the universe, everything appears with the same clarity of vision. The next part I do not know what it means. Visnoryat..."That is the ultimate abode of Visnu. To that I pay my respects."
Sadsiva Mantra
Visnur yonim kalpayatu Tvasta rupani pigumsatu Asincatu prajapati Dhata garbham dadatu te Garbham dhehi sinivali Garbham dhehi sarasvati. addhattam puskaras rajah namah
This is the mantra by which the cosmos is created. Space and time are being united. This is called the Garbhadhana Mantra, which means the act of consumation. Visnur yonim kalpayatu - may Visnu create the yoni, the source of life. Tvasta rupani pigumsatu - May Tvasta, one of the aswini gods, create the forms out of what is available. Asincatu prajapati. Prajapati is a tipical name for the erect male member. It is also a name for the unit of time which the earth takes to orbit the sun. Asincatu prajapati. May that prajapati fill you with his seed. Dhata garbham dadatu te. May Dhata fertilize the egg inside of you. Garbham dhehi sinivali. Sinivali and Saraswati are the two gods our awareness is associated with the ejaculatory sphincter muscles and the receptive forces controlling the movement of the sperm towards the seed.
Garbham dhehi sarasvati. Sarasvati is the force which controls propelling the right sperm towards the seed. Garbhante asvinau devau - may the Aswini devatas who are the creators of life, addhattam puskaras rajah namah - may they put the life into the female egg.
Kunti was the mother of the pandavas. She recited this Garbha Dhana mantra keeping the idea of the various gods of the chakras and of the ajna chakra and she had six sons. First she worshipped the Ajna chakra and she had Karna. Then she worshipped Yama in the Muladhara chakra and got Dharmaraja; then she worshipped the Ashwini Devatas and got Nakula and Sahadeva; and she worshipped Vayu with this mantra and obtained Bhima. She worshipped the Sun at the Manipura chakra and got Arjuna.
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