Hello. I've been using NSR for almost a year, and I've had great success with it. I never got around to using my emails - I guess that it just went smoothly enough that I didn't know what to ask at the time. After gaining some experience a little feedback on a few topics would be great.

In "The Yoga Tradition" by Georg Feurstein, I read that 6 out of 7 of the chakras (spelled cakra in this text) have associations with specific mantras. They were:

Mantra/Common Name/Location
1. root support/perineum
2. own base/genitals
3. jewel city/navel
4. unstuck or heart/heart
5. pure or purity/throat
6. command/third eye midway between eyes
7. (none)/thousand-petaled/crown of the head

Were these among the mantras experimented with to find the NSR mantra?

Among those very knowledgeable in meditation, is this a common knowledge list, or are they less common associations with the chakras?

Chicken or the Egg... If the NSR syllable is a common association with the "root" chakra, are there any speculations about how it became


To me, it seems appropriate that the NSR mantra coincides with the "root chakra", and I can't help some "Chicken or the Egg" style contemplation about it - The part of my that loves symbol and metaphor just enjoys how appropriate it seems, while the more analytical part of me imagines meditators of the past experimenting and finding what mantra/syllable/resonance suited different aspects of their philosophy.

Bill Jones

Bill,

You may still use your prepaid NSR/USA private email consultations. Questions don't always come up in the first few months of practice.

Questions about the origin of the NSR syllable and its relationship to chakras have already been answered many times on this forum. See, for example, http://www.network54.com/Forum/254541/thread/1178567568/Origin+of++NSR+syllable-, which contains a list of some (but not all) of the answers. It can save time to search for an answer before posting a question.

Another relevant answer is that informal research done at a large university by Dr. Patricia Carrington showed the NSR syllable to be the most comfortable sound of a large set of randomly-selected sounds.

It is important to understand that NSR has nothing to do with chakras. In particular, we do not encourage so-called "kundalini energy" techniques that involve chakras:

* Without a great deal of personal support, it is too easy for severe problems such as pain and body movements to arise. It is easy to find many references this well-known issue by searching the Web for the terms "problems with kundalini".

* They do not release stress efficiently and comfortably as does the direct experience of the unique state of restful alertness (transcendental consciousness) through simple, natural mental techniques such as Transcendental Meditation and NSR Meditation.

David Spector
NSR Meditation/USA

I really appreciate your response, and I likely use the email consultations - NSR has been great for me, so I imagine myself, sometime in the future, applying for the advanced techniques.

I will keep in mind that there is a search engine for the site in the future, but thank you also for the link.

Also, I fully understand your edits to my original message - I should have thought it through a bit more before posting, as you can tell from my unfinished sentence toward the end and a paragraph that says essentially the same thing afterward. It was a little stream of consciousness for its own good, and it was late at night.

Thank you for everything David.

Bill Jones