Mantra Meditation and Everything You Need to Know About It! Part II

This is the continuation of the previous blog- Mantra Meditation and Everything You Need to Know About It! We talk all about mantras and their basics.

And how does this end internment happen in the world of mantras? Again, there are three stages. The first stage, the Vedic Rishi calls it Shravana, which means listening. Then manan means reflecting and thinking about it; the final stage is called an Asana, which is meditation. 

So in the modern day, we just want to jump to meditation immediately. It is not very successful. We don't realize how difficult it is because we have not gone through the first two stages. 

The first stage is listening. How do we copy from our role models? We listen to everything we can about them. We see and watch them.

The second stage is the Manan, where we gather information and understand what these role models are doing. And these archetypes and mantras are specifically focused on a particular archetype. You look at their clothes, and you look at the mantras describing their physical features, their vehicles, the weapons they carry; everything has significance. This is what we start reflecting on. 

And finally, you become one with them. Exactly what they wear, what they do, and what they represent, we become that. So this is the method behind mantra meditation. 

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Now, I would like to go to the invocation today; what we are trying to do today is the actual interactive part of the mantra meditation. 

In any mantra, there are a few common things you will find the first and foremost would be Om. It'll start with an Om or Shree. Now I'm gonna explain in detail about Om and Shree. It will end with Namah and Swaha. Finally, it'll end with three chantings of Shanti, which means peace.

Let's understand why these things are done. Now, Om is the primordial sound. It is the universal vibration. Why is that the universal vibration? Because it encompasses the entire manifest universe. It encompasses the creation, the maintenance or sustenance, and the dissolution or transcendence. And how does it do that? Because Om is actually made up of three syllables, Aa, Oo, and Mm.

And if you practice all these three syllables, you can do it without using your tongue. So if you remove your tongue and stick it to your palette, you can still do, Aa, Oo. Mm. So, you don't need your tongue to make these three basic sounds. And if you practice these sounds separately, just keep saying, aah, Ooh, and mm, for a long time, you will start noticing that when you keep saying, aah, your body vibrates from your reproductive organs down to your feet. That is where the aah sound vibrates. And guess what? The reproductive organs are the creative part of you. You create with your reproductive organs. 

The Ooh sound, if you bring awareness to it, you’ll notice it vibrating from your belly button to your throat. And guess what, that is where your heart is because the heart is the one that sustains and preserves you. You can be brain dead, but you cannot be heart dead. The day your heart stops, you are finished. Flatlined. So that is the preservative part of us. 

And then when you do mm, you'll realize that from the neck to the top of your head, your head, your entire face, your crown starts vibrating. That is the transcendence part. That is the mind, the Neocortex, which helps you transcend to think through and use your intellect to go from limited to limitless thinking.

So, Aah is the creative phase, Ooh is your preservative phase, and Mm is your transcendence or dissolving lower states of consciousness. Om also encompasses the waking state, the dream state, and the deep sleep state. Plus, they realized there is another state called Turia which means the shunya, void; from which all these other three states, the waking, the dream, and the sleep state emanate and go back, because Turia or the void or shunya, means zero in Sanskrit.

Can you imagine going through mathematics without the concept of zero? Everything has to get balanced out. If there were no zero, there would be no mathematics. Likewise, if there is no void, no shunya, there is no world. So Om encompasses all three states, which we are familiar with: the waking, the dream, the deep sleep, and Turia, the state of void, the Shunya.

So that's about Om. Of course, it translates to your waking state and your conscious mind, your dream slate translates to your subconscious mind, and your deep sleep state translates to your superconscious mind. So that is about Om.

Now Shree is a representation of the abundance principle. So every time you start a mantra with Shree, you affirm that I am hoping to. It is also another word for hope. Prosperity is made up of two words. Pro and Spra. Pro is going towards, and Spra is hope. So when you go towards hope, it'll take you to abundant states of being, which will take you to your ultimate state.

So that is why we start with Om and Shree. Then we finish with Namaha or Swaha. Now, Namaha is two words again. Na Maha. Na is a negation. Maha is again a combination of two words: Mama is mine, and Aham means I. So, the root cause of all our problems is when we get stuck with me and mine, which is our limited state.

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We’ll continue with group mantras in the next blog.