Mantra Meditation: Change Your Karma with the Power of Sacred Sound [With CD]

Was excited to get book. Until I saw there was no CD included….. Very Disappointed

I was immediately disappointed that the cd was not in the sleeve and did not come with the book. That was not stated in the description. I purchased it after looking at other reviews that stated it came with the c.d. I would like to know how the author pronounces the mantras.

I bought this book a couple of years ago on a whim. It wasn't till a couple of months ago did I actually start putting it into practice. I would have to say this book has changed my life. I love that it comes with a CD making it really easy to pronounce the words which without it may be extremely difficult. I have referred this book to my friends and they too have had wonderful life changing experiences. Most people see changes within the first 2 weeks of starting. The mantra to remove karma to increase wealth in itself is worth the time and money spent. I would recommend this book to anyone who is struggling with their karmic debt.

In this 80 page primer on Mantra meditation, Ashley-Ferrand admirably covers all the bases and provides numerous Mantras to work with. The book includes several chapers on spiritual phychology, destiny, the aims of human life, and the discipline of Mantra practice. He then offers chapters of Mantras for abundance, karma, dharma and so on. For each Mantra he gives a nice explanation of the goal of the Mantra and each element of the Mantra. The CD is excellent and is the only way you are really going to know how to recite the Mantras accurately without a personal guide. As usual, the Sounds True qualtiy is excellent.

I have been studying mantras for about 6 months now. I have the book "Healing Mantras," 2 other CDs and a 6 CD set "Mantra: Sacred Words of Power," all by Ashley-Farrand. Although there is some repetition from product to product, they are all full of stories, mantras, help with pronunciation and chanting, and discussion of what each mantra is for. Many of the mantras are specific in what they can help you with and others are more general but still, they are all beneficial in some way, whether physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually. At first, I did some mantra practice in a general, undisciplined way and nothing much happened. Then I did the Markandeya Mantra for 40 days to improve my health. It was difficult to keep going with it (at times) as it's a long mantra and chanting it 108 times took me 25-30 minutes each time! Internally I am not sure what may have happened healthwise, I hope to find out in a few weeks when I see my doctor. What it definitely did do is give me the motivation to begin exercising and losing weight again. I am using another mantra to help me continue with that. No matter what religious tradition you practice or even if you don't have any particular spiritual path, mantras can help and they won't interfere with your beliefs. The main idea of mantras is that the sounds themselves have the effects, not the meanings of the sounds.

I loved this book. I knew nothing about mantra meditating. Now I have fifteen mantras to use, I know how to pronounce the sounds in each correctly, and I know when it's best to use each. This is a great book for beginners.

I began with the mantra for clearing karma related to wealth for 40 days, then I chanted the mantra to attract wealth for 40 days. It was easy with the CD- I was able to do the daily chant while driving to work- and in the middle of the second series of chanting, I was promoted at work, and received a 32% pay increase. This book and CD are more than worth the money and time spent!