Hello, I am a new to Sri Vidya and haven't been able to recieve formal diksha into the tradition yet. I have doing basic yoga sadhana for a while now and have read a lot about it and watched many videos of Sri Amritanda so I feel I am ready for mantra Japa.
In the meantime before I am able to recieve formal Diksha from a Guru I have a strong feeling to start Bala Tripurasundari mantra japa on my own, taking Dakshinamurti as guru and applying curse removal mantra to mitigate potential negative effects.
My questions are:
Which form of mantra is best to practice: 3 syllable, 6 syllable or 9 syllable? What is the difference in effect between them?
And in your parampara, Is OM prefixed before each repition, or is it not needed?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you!