Walk in Spirituality Part 3

Walk in Spirituality Part 3

1 - Chanting of Mantra

The purpose of a mantra is to protect the mind. How it protects? When you mentally recite the mantra, your mind will become inactive, as it is already occupied with the recitation of the mantra. 

When you recite a mantra mentally, it produces subtle vibrations into the entire body, trying to sync your body with your mind. This is the first step. Then you begin to contemplate the concerned deity and whey you begin to do this, mantra will fade away giving rise to the form of deity you are contemplating. Now second step is over.

God has no form. He is formless. But in the initial stages if you go with formless Brahman, your concentration will not be good and will begin to wander. That is why you are trying to give a form to the self within you.

That form will guide you through your consciousness, not verbally or physically. It will work on your mind, intellect and ego and will finally help you in purifying your consciousness. The purest form of consciousness is God.

You have to go with the form of deity with which you are comfortable, Dhyana verses do not matter. You create your own deity with a particular form. Use only one mantra and connect this mantra with that deity. You are almost done.

Note - Deity is not going to speak to you or guide you to give suggestions. It is your purer form of your mind that is going to give you suggestion, may be very close to autosuggestion

Based on above we can understand that mantra helps to purify the mind, by purify we mean getting rid of thoughts. Further mantra energies the mind and body and also helps in the movement of our internal energies smoothly.

Care should be taken in mantra chanting as all mantras are not suitable for everyone. Certain mantra 

may really bring people to their knees if the right one is not selected. Only a capable Guru can advise on this.

Usually if the person is devoted to a particular God mantras of that God are usually favorable and mantras of Kula Devata or Ista Devata’s are generally safe.

It is always better to consult a Guru for mantra initiation and if there is no Guru available one can consider Lord Dakshinamurthy as his Guru and start chanting the mantra.

As far as possible the pronunciation of mantra should be correct and ultimately the love and surrender to the divine is the quality which will help us to proceed further.

(Based on teachings of my Guru – Any mistakes solely mine)