Ishta Devata
Swami Gyanshakti Saraswati
There is nothing on earth which is everlasting unless you see it in cosmic terms. No love, feeling or desire is permanent; everything is temporary on the material level.
Mantra devata
the particular universal force toward which a mantram is directed.
Mantra pramatribhava ...
ISHTA DEVATA - personal God, the chosen ideal
ISHWARA - the Lord, the Cosmic Self, the Supreme Ruler ...
devata [god, godhead].
devatati the formation or "extension" of the Divine. [Ved.]
devatmasakti self-power of the Godhead. [see the following] ...
Swadhyayat = from self-study; Istadevata = the desired deity; Samprayogah = union.
From Self-study, Union with Divinity. ...
At a higher stage in the life of a Sadhaka, it is offered to the One from whom all gifts come and of whom the Devatas are inferior limited forms. But this offering also involves a dualism from which the highest Monistic (Advaita) Sadhana is free.
They have also a Devata or a deity to whom the Mantras are directed, the form of whose presence is implied in the shape of the vibrations which the Mantras produce when chanted.
Indra Devata! Please give me power of retention of memory. Oh ! Saraswati the Devi of knowledge, kindly bestow on me mental power. Oh! ...
Sit on Padmasana or Siddhasana in your meditation room, before the picture of your Ishta Devata (guiding deity). Close the right nostril with the right thumb. Draw in the air very, very slowly through the left nostril.
Hamsa Gayatri can be used as a form of Bhakti yoga, with paramahamsa (soul) functioning as deity (Devata). The bija mantra of Hamsa is 'Ham', which can be used as a powerful form of japa (repetition) itself.
Devatadhyaya or Daivata Brahmana comprises 3 khandas, having 26, 11 and 25 kandikas respectively.
Chandogya Brahmana is divided in to ten prapathakas (chapters).
As there is a difference between mind and body, so there is between yantra and mantra. Yantra is the body or form of the deity (devata), whereas mantra is the mind, consciousness, spirit or name.
The Chakras are centres of Shakti as vital force"in other words, these are centres of Pranashakti manifested by Pranavayu in the living body, the presiding Devatas of which are the names for the Universal Consciousness as it manifests in the form of ...
While Patanjali accepts the idea of what he terms "ishta-devata" (worship of deities as manifestations of the single Brahman), his overall "ishwar" is not a conventional God with personal form and speaks more to a universal, attributeless Brahman, ...
It achieves its apotheosis through direct communion with the ishtadevata, the chosen deity upon whom one has concentrated one's complete attention, will and imagination.
 See also: Yoga, Mind, Spirit, Ananda, Spiritual
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