Raja Yoga
Mantra Meditation 17
Raja Yoga
Mantra Meditation 17
Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gye Nyame.
Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gayathri.
1
We take refuge in You to be free
from Maya's plantation of suffering.
The beginning of being free is always
thinking of You. We do this by calling
out, chanting softly, loudly, or silently,
Your Holy Names.
2
Calling out Your Names, we are
able to remember You more. We are
increasingly able to do this while awake,
during sleep, dream states existence.
3
As we chant Your Names our
consciousness gradually returns to its
pure quiet state. Slowly, we awaken into
Your unlimited reservoir of Being, the
Light of Divine Intelligence.
4
Chanting Your Holy Names are the
nonviolent sacrifices we offer to You
with all the devotion and love we can
presently command.
5
Chanting the Holy Names are some
of our ancient spiritual practices.
They have been used since time
immemorial to purify the
consciousness, awareness, and
intelligence.
6
You are within and beyond Maya
and all other degrees of illusion.
Chanting Your Holy names, we are
rising out of the suffering of Maya
and are consciously being
reestablished in Your Peace.
7
It is our sacred privilege to be
able to remember You and Your Holy
Holy Names while we go about our
mundane affairs. This way we are
constantly engaged in awakening in
You.
8
The more our consciousness is
clean and quiet by virtue of chanting
Your Holy Names, the better we can
follow ¥our Most Righteous Guidance
all the time.
9
The more we remember You by chanting
Your Holy Names, the more we are
empowered to turn from wickedness.
This is how we break free, transcend
Maya and align with Your Divine
Intelligence again.
10
Chanting Your Holy Names, we are
cultivating our life from that of a
brute, to that of a human being.
From the life of a human being, we
are awakening to You, our original
Divinity.
11
This spiritual practice of chanting
Your Holy Names is a civilizing
process that is cultivating and raising
us to ever greater levels of compassion
and Peace.
12
Chanting Your Holy Names is helping
to raise our consciousness, awareness,
and intelligence to a more compassionate
understanding of the plight all Sentient
Beings in the worlds of Maya.
13
You are first and foremost in all
our endeavors. All that we do
for the uplift of all, we do first
as an offering to You. Thank You
for helping us in our efforts to
remember You by chanting Your
Holy Names.
14
We chant Your Holy Names and think
of You as the Most Wise, the Greatest
Power, the Supreme Being of our
understanding and life.
15
We chant Your Holy Names, knowing You
pervade and transcend all names. We think of
You as incomparable, beyond sound and form
There is no second with whom we can compare You.
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Thoughts cease invading our consciousness the
more we chant Your Holy Names. Gradually we see
and understand, there is nothing, except for You.
Chanting Your Holy Names are the first steps in
solving the problems facing our existence in the
various universes.
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Thank You for helping us remember to chant
Your Holy Names. This purifies us and exposes
the Divine Love at the core of our being.
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Armed with this Supreme Love, attained by
chanting Your Holy Names, we are cool, calm, and
collected, not afraid, frustrated, nor confused when
the triple illusions of Maya: Anger, lust, and greed,
try to enter or enter our consciousness, awareness,
or intelligence.