I think you should prepare a chart which has alphabet located in different parts of your body, cause these alphabets are like pointers to where you have got to keep your attention when you are reciting any mantra or anything.
This itself is a great mantra. The mantra of Saraswatī. Saraswatī is the Goddess of Learning. What do I mean by saying this is a mantra of Saraswatī. That means you know more than you already know by saying this mantra repeatedly. How do we say this mantra? By taking your awareness to each part of your body… pointed to by these letters.
For example:
aṁ āṁ iṁ īṁ uṁ ūṁ ṛṁ ṝṁ ḷṁ ḹṁ…
ka kha ga gha ṅa ca cha ja jha ña ṭa ṭha
ḍa ḍha ṇa ta tha da dha na pa pha
So these are actually pointing to places where you have got to keep your attention on. When you are reciting a mantra corresponding to that thing, or an aspect of the Divine, or a power that you want to access. And
ba bha ma ya ra la around the second chakra. And
va śa ṣa sa in the first chakra. And
ha ḻa and kṣa are the three eyes.
So when you are able to do that, you are able to go to a place pointed to by the bījākṣara. Bīja means seed. Why is it called a seed? Cause when you put a seed and keep on repeating, putting water into that seed, that means life into that thing, it sprouts. It is small. Keep on watering it more, it becomes a plant. Keep on watering it more, it becomes a tree and it will yield fruits. And with fruits, you will have more seeds. That's how lifecycle renews. That's why it's called “bīja-akṣara". Akṣara means undecaying, not changing. So, to maintain the cycle of life without decaying, these bījas are useful, the seeds are useful. What are these seeds? The genetic codes. They are giving the life to the genetic codes and the genetic codes give the life too. So it's a cycle which goes on.
I think you should prepare a chart with all these parts of the body identified and these things so that you can practice Saraswatī mantra. Saraswatī mantra in the forward direction, in the reverse direction, up and down.
This constitutes a mantra japa of Saraswatī. Saraswatī is a river, a river of flowing awareness in the petals of your cakras in your body. If you practice this, knowledge comes to you. The knowledge that is relevant to you that's going to [create] meaning for your life; bring all the good to you and keep the evil away. Saraswatī is a blessed form of all Knowledge.
It doesn't come all at once, like a big jolt. It doesn't come like a torrent to sweep you away. It comes in bits and pieces like jigsaw puzzles they fall into place and they are showing the next step, next step, like that. It takes you along.
I had this beautiful experience of Saraswatī. I was like a little child holding Her little finger and She was walking on the rainbows and I was walking with Her. There was a kind of a beautiful feeling I had when being with Saraswatī. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beauty personified is Saraswatī
