Mantra Yoga: Music with Mantras - A Divine Experience

By Swami Sukhabodhananda

Mantra Yoga: Music with Mantras - A Divine Experience

A feast of heavenly music awaits those who can tune in. If you don't know how, you can learn the art from the science of Mantra Yoga. The world around us is full of vibrations. Tyagaraja created a raga upon hearing the hum of a bee. But only a pure mind can receive the finer vibrations. Mantra Yoga helps us purify our minds.

The mind is impure when the male and female energies in us are not balanced. Mantras help us balance them. Dominance of masculine energy results in more aggressiveness; it needs to be balanced by passiveness that is a feminine energy. When one has more of acceptance, the female energy is dominant; so it has to be balanced by male energy or aggressiveness.

In pranayama, balancing is achieved through Moon and Sun energies, or Chandra-Surya bedha . In asana, balancing is achieved through physical postures. In music also, balancing the energies produces pleasing results. The art of balancing is one of the great disciplines in Indian scriptures.

In the science of Mantra Yoga, the balancing is achieved through certain mantras focused on specific chakras and invoking energy centres. Plants too have certain energies and according to ayurveda, when these energies are pooled, various forms of medicines are created.

The ego is also the effect of an imbalanced energy. The ego creates more pain than joy. The ego takes away our true freedom and binds us to our points of view. Both sanity of purity and insanity of the ego will be realised by chanting of mantras. The ego's vibrations are gross and it is bound by the gross. The vibrations of mantras are subtle and the state of egolessness is also subtle - so one can get in tune with these vibrations.

When one is 'egoless', then one's sufferings too become sacred. Our struggles have a cosmic purpose. When our minds are filled with devotion through chanting of a powerful mantra, we can make our struggles sacred. So we have to wait.

In the field of consciousness, when grace descends, a quantum leap happens which transforms our inner state. When grace descended on Kalidasa, he became a great poet. When you systematically learn how and when to chant various mantras, your third eye opens. Then one sees the deeper and finer vibrations that make life fulfilling.

Ramanuja was a great mathematician. While solving a problem he used to focus between his eyebrows, the centre of the ajna chakra .

Edgar Cayce, who passed away in 1945, was a great healer. He also used to focus on his third eye whenever he had to make intuitive prescriptions. Most of the great healers open their third eye. In India , one puts a bindu between the eyebrows to awaken the third or intuitive eye.

If you can learn the mantras correctly, understanding their meaning and perfecting the right way of chanting, your third eye opens mysteriously. Then a sacred life with a heavenly music enriches your life. The Mantra Yoga programme is designed for this purpose.