Essence of pranava
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January 15, 2021 22:07 IST
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The significance of the pranava mantra is such that a sanyasi should keep repeating it constantly. Pranava also means ‘yes,’ in Sanskrit. Those who say ‘yes’ to superior things in life are great people. And these superior things are, naturally, not of the material world, but they have to do with ways to attain moksha. When one recites the pranava, one’s mind must imagine Krishna on the chariot, in the driver’s seat, with Arjuna, behind Him. Vedanta Desika shows the importance of Arjuna’s chariot in the context of the pranava mantra, said V.S. Karunakarachariar in a discourse. Desika acknowledges that it was his Acharya Kidambi Appullar, who taught him this.