Our ancient sages had left the vast legacy of “ancient wisdom” that includes love, truth, long life, consciousness and bliss. The source of our misery is estrangement from our nature. Though our mind is incessantly on the look for

ways to end suffering, yet we end up feeling more miserable. Even we attain wisdom to look within; we have to experience and face only scattered or uncontrolled thoughts, daydreams, and feelings. While meditation takes us on a path of divinity, but our way word mind causes it to delay.

However, it is only in one way that we can take our vehicle of thought from these mental turbulence to the eternal silence and bliss and that’s through Mantra.

According to the spiritual leaders, Mantra is a sound of divinity which has much profound meaning.  It is performed and experienced in the state of spiritual absorption. In the yogic scriptures, the mantra is described as a bridge through which we can cross the morass of delusion which is created by the external world and reach the center of consciousness within. Even yogis and mystics say’ that mantra is an eternal friend which does not leave the meditator even after his death. According to esoteric literature, it is a power of spiritual master.

How does Mantra help in meditation?

Mantra gives wandering mind a centralized point to focus. If ever mind moves from the meditative state, mantra helps it to come back. Its rhythm also provides an easy channel for energy to flow in and out. We can call it a tool of your mind that tunes yoga practice and take you from a realm of your current physical domain into the higher state of awareness.

Mantra has much more complexity than a mere chant. It unites sound, body, and mind offering deep philosophical experience. When any yogi recites mantra before the start of the yogic practice, it enhances the practice.  If you are feeling any stressed, anxious, excited or lonely, you can pick any word or phrase and chant in a way that would work for you. Recite the mantra very softly and internally. To gain the most benefits, shorter mantras should be chanted 108 times, while the longer mantras three times. Give a few minutes to focus your mind on the sound.

Mantra chanting is soothing to the mind

Mantra chanting is very soothing. It takes us beyond our mental conventionalities of time and space, thus it soothes in a most reflective way. It also effects at a cellular level and merges our finite identity with the infinite. It offers sweetness of devotional surrender and turns negativity into positivity. As music calms the heart so the spiritual sound of mantra soothes the restless mind, which reduces stress and anxiety, just like mind chatter into smoke, music soothes a savage beast and a restless mind.

It Boosts Immunity

Mantra is about the hypothalamus, which is the control tower of the brain. It controls communication between the nervous system and the endocrine system, through chemicals serotonin and dopamine, which are also known as the happy hormones. Serotonin and dopamine impact our moods. It also impacts many of the body functions like temperature, metabolism and nervous system as well as pituitary secretion.  It also impacts everything from mood to appetite to sleep, becoming a single most important link in the mind-body connection.

Mantra chanting Empowers

Mantra chanting empowers our mind and is also a regular part of Hindu and Dharmic traditions. There is a mantra for each aspect of our ill, to perform religious rituals, to remove the influence of evil, to elevate illness, and to beat each challenge.   Almost all Mantras come from that one Mantra and that’s OM.  When we chant OM, we invoke that universal intelligence and energy.  Only a few weeks of mantra recitation regularly can change our life. We feel fickler of light appears in heart and you feel delighted,

A yogi who recites mantra says that two things happen, your mind is focused on something so beautiful and secondly, there is a silencing of the mind. Your mind is deeply concentrated on the mantra and all the other things stop.

We need to recite these ancient mantras in our stressful lives, to remain mentally strong, contended, healthy and blissful.