Total Thinking: 7.6.4- Swami Krishnananda.
=================================================================================== Sunday 27, September 2026, 21:00. Books Philosophy: Total Thinking: 7. Chapter 6: Mantra Japam: 4. Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================== Therefore, the chhandas is the metre of the mantra, as there are metres in a poem, for instance. If we want to know in what metre a poem is written, we must recite it as would be required by the system of the metre, else it would look like prose and it would not be a poem. Thus is the special effect produced by the repetition of a mantra with the proper juxtaposition of the letters of which it is composed, which is the third effect produced by it. Rishi, devata and chhandas—and the fourth effect is the force of our own zeal, ardour, and affection for it. Then there is the grace of the Guru, the power of the will of the master who has initiated us into the mantra. All these come together...