Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya
SALUTATIONS TO YOU, VASUDEVA (Krishna or Vishnu), THE INDWELLING LORD OF THE UNIVERSE."
Krishna himself asked his devotees to completely surrender to him:
“ सर्वधर्मान्परित्यज्य मामेकं शरणं व्रज ।
अहं त्वां सर्वपापेभ्यो मोक्षयिष्यामि मा शुचः ॥१८- ६६॥
Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear. [Gita 18/66]”
Krishna also proclaimed "Everybody should recite "Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya" mantra daily whenever possible so that I will stand by them. I respond to the call of the heart immediately and
invariably. See me in your duties. I am committed to those who are committed to their duties. Believe in putting faith in me and make me your own."
This Mukti Mantra (provider of liberation) is a 12 syllabled Mantra to enable the invocation of the "Indwelling Lord" of the Universe. Vasudeva means the "Indwelling Lord". He is the Intelligence of all forms: the mineral, the plant, the animal, the man, the Devas, the Solar Devas and the Cosmic Devas. Vasudeva is the Universal Soul and the Universe is His form. Contemplation upon this Lord, gives the touch/contact with the Indwelling Intelligence of all forms. It enables the soul contact.
The visible universe of spirit and matter is but the concrete image of an ideal abstraction. It is built on the model of the first divine idea. It is in eternity as a latent idea and remains in the latent state. The soul animates this latent model in the central sun called Vasudeva, who has 12 qualities, the 12 sun signs of the zodiac, the 12 numbers of the "Sephirotal Tree" (the 10 number plus the male female principles of the universe). These twelve dualities form the model of the geometrical figure, the dodecahedron. The mantram, therefore, envisages contemplation of the 12 qualities of the sun signs and its Lord.
The 12 syllables are meditate upon in the 12 divisions of the human body (as per astrology) to impose the Lord in His entirety in the human body. The mantram is also contemplated in the 12 petal Heart Lotus. For this reason the Heart Lotus also becomes the symbol for this mantram. The Lord is visualised as responsible for the functioning of the Intelligence from head to foot.
Since Vasudeva is the chief of the latent model of the Universe, He is worshipped with this mantram, to enable liberation of the worshipper from the illusion of the material and phenomenal patterns of the Universe. It is recommended to be uttered in multiples of 12.
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