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The Mantram Handbook: A Practical Guide to Choosing Your Mantram and Calming Your Mind (Essential Easwaran Library)

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This is one of the *best* books I have ever read. It teaches you how to quiet your mind via the use of a mantram (a word that you repeat to yourself in your mind, such as "peace," or whatever works best for you; Easwaran carefully explains how to pick out a mantram that perfectly suits you).

Easwaran is a masterful teacher and a lively storyteller. He also has a wonderful sense of humor - there are moments where I laughed out loud!

This book is created for people of any background. Parents can read it, and teach the mantram to their children.

The best thing about it is that it teaches you a practical method, that is quick and easy to apply, to get you through any situation with strength and serenity.

This is a wonderful book; really explains the purpose of reciting a mantra. It talks about focusing and stilling the mind(calming the mind)As a person who has always been very hyper, driven and quick thinking, I realize what a GREAT benefit having a mantra is going to be. This book is written in such a way that it is practical and easy to understand. It takes the mystery out of mantra meditation.

40 years ago on a submarine tender I laid up in my rack and read a small book on self hypnosis. Briefly, the method involved concentrating on your feet and relaxing with slow measured breaths saying to yourself "Heavy Feet" and then slowly moving up your body .... Heavy Legs .... Heavy Hips ... Heavy Stomach ... Heavy Chest ...

This would go on quietly relaxing until you had worked yourself to your head and then you would concentrate on an area behind and between your eyes. After about 10 minutes of this you would be relaxed.

This what I've used for years to relax and enter a meditative state.

No real problems except my mantra over years had been well established ... HEAVY FEET.

I'd say those words at night and my day would go into slow motion.

The bad news, to some degree, was that my mantra was "Heavy Feet". So much for a spiritual mantra.

One of the rules is once you've established your mantra, keep it. Good practice but it was time for the heavy feet to get walking.

After some thought and experimentation, I decided to change my mantra. No more 'Heavy Feet'.

What I really gained from this book is that my mantra isn't just for meditation, it can be used to help quiet all of those noises in our lives. Won't tell you what my new mantra is, let's just say, you won't here me chanting "heavy feet" while stuck in traffic.

Good book.

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A mantra is something that can prove invaluable. "The Mantram Handbook: A Practical Guide to Choosing Your Mantram & Calming you Mind" is a guide to Mantrams, more commonly referred to as mantras. With much sage advice and wisdom, Easwaran hopes to give readers the spirituality they need to craft their own mantra, one that will refresh them and prepare them for the challenges of everyday life. "The Mantram Handbook" is a must for anyone who wants to learn the power of the mantram.

This is a powerful book, one I found well worth reading. Using the word "classic" to describe any book is probably overdone but I'm very tempted to use it here.

Easwaran is a pretty good writer. He takes the most nebulous topics, breaks them down and makes them as concrete as they're ever going to be. Mostly he accomplishes this through stories and analogies.

One story that especially stands out in my mind is this tale of a spat he witnessed in a young couple. The boy stood outside his girlfriends window calling out her name until she came back down. Easwaran compares that to a human using a mantra.

There's a bunch like that in here.

If sprituality ever becomes universal, Easwaran's mindset is probably something of what it would look like. Anyone from any spiritual background could use this book. Easwaran quotes liberally from a variety of traditions and that's interesting because he was versed in many.

The topics explored in the last half of the book gives one an idea of what advanced spirituality looks like.

I wrote a bad review on this book because of a flaw in the book itself.I recieved a new book,read it and loved it.I am repeating the mantram and feel it is already having an effect in my life.I would recomend it to anyone.I also would like to thank all the people who were so helpful in this matter.It really is a great book by a great man.Thank you all very much.