• Front cover of the paperback book 'Mantra Yoga'.
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Mantra Yoga — Sound, Chanting & Vedantic Practice (Paperback)

Mantra Yoga — Sound, Chanting & Vedantic Practice (Paperback)

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Over the years the word 'yoga' has become almost synonymous with Hatha Yoga and its physical postures. This book is a corrective. Mantra Yoga pursues the same union of mind, body and spirit by an entirely different route — the sound vibrations of mantras and japas.

Jairam Sheshadri's argument is that despite the growing popularity of chanting, the discipline underneath it and the reasoning behind it have rarely been laid out clearly. He sets out to do that, drawing on both the Vedantic tradition and the modern experimental literature the Western world has produced in response to it.

At a glance

  • On Mantra Yoga: chanting, japas and sound vibration
  • 165-page paperback
  • By Jairam Sheshadri, a practitioner of over 30 years
  • Founder of the School of Wisdom in Toronto
  • Published July 5, 2021

How to use it

Read it slowly, and out loud where the text invites it — a book about sound resists silent reading.

The book explains the discipline and the rationale underlying Mantra Yoga as a distinct form, and discusses the modern experiments that its author cites in support of the tradition of chanting.

Book details

Author Jairam Sheshadri
Format Paperback
Pages 165
Dimensions 0.38 x 7.81 x 5.06 in
Publication date July 5, 2021

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Pair it with a fixed time rather than a fixed length. Traditions built on repetition tend to reward the same hour every day far more than they reward a long session once a week.

Frequently asked questions

What is Mantra Yoga?

A form of yoga that connects the lower self with the higher self through the sound vibrations emanating from mantras or japas, pursuing the same union of mind, body and spirit as other yogic paths.

Who wrote it?

Jairam Sheshadri, who has practised Mantra Yoga for over 30 years. Raised in India, he worked for decades as an accountant in senior roles in North America and founded the School of Wisdom in Toronto. He now lives in Chennai.

Do I need prior yoga experience?

No. The book sets out to explain a discipline whose reasoning, the author argues, has rarely been expounded clearly — so it starts from the ground up.

How long is it?

165 pages, paperback, 0.38 x 7.81 x 5.06 inches.

When was it published?

July 5, 2021.

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In short

Mantra Yoga is a 165-page paperback by Jairam Sheshadri, published July 5, 2021 and sold by Temple of Desire. It presents mantra yoga — union pursued through the sound vibration of mantras and japas — as a discipline distinct from the postural Hatha practice that dominates the modern use of the word yoga. The author, a practitioner of more than thirty years and founder of the School of Wisdom in Toronto, sets out the reasoning behind chanting and discusses modern experimental literature cited in support of the tradition. The book costs $28.78. It is an explanatory text on doctrine and rationale rather than an illustrated posture manual.

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