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Malolan Cadambi • October 9, 2002 


> If someone can actually pass on the actual mantram itself it would be
> great. I have heard that it is quite a long one, longer than the
> Gayatri which has 24-syllables.
>
> -- Pradeep
>
> [ Pardon me for interjecting, but the Hayagriva Mantra and others
>   like it are only to be received through upadesa from a mantra-siddha
>   purusha.  Even for the Gayatri Mantra, the father or guru should
>   have a store of 100,000 or so Gayatris (I forget the exact count)
>   before he imparts the mantra during upanayanam to the child. [This
>   was mentioned by Sri Tirukkudandai Andavan Swami in the course of
>   a discourse on Srimad Ramayana.] What to say of a special mantra
>   like the Hayagriva Mantra! -- Mani ]

Yes, Mani is correct. These mantrams which included Dwayam, Ashtakshari and
Charama Slokam should only be received from one's own acharyan and a
mantra-siddha purusha.  Swami Desikan has authored a book called
YajnOpaveethadharanam which sets the kramams for BrahmOpadesham/Upanayanam.

Mukkur Lakshminarasimhachar was a proponnet of the value of the
NarasimhAshtup Mantram which very few purushas have had the parama-bhagyam
of being initiated into. The other example is Adivan SatakOpar, the founder
of Ahobila Matham.

For many devotees who are not able to receive the mantram, chanting of
Hayagriiva Stotram and KaamasikAstakam is reccomended by Swami Desikan.

Regards,

Malolan Cadambi

[ If Swami Desika did indeed author a text called 'yajnopavIta-dhAraNam',
  I don't believe it is extant today. -- Moderator ]



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