Raja Yoga

Mantra Meditation 18

Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gye Nyame.

Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gayathri.

1

Chanting Your Holy Names is one

of the spiritual tools which helps

us remember You. Simultaneously,

It protects, purifies, and expands

our consciousness, awareness, and

intelligence into union with You.

2

We chant Your Holy Names thinking of

You as the Supreme Being of our greatest

understanding, the Source of Infinite Peace.

3

We chant Your Holy Names and gradually

experience You as within and beyond over

and under, inner and outer, illusion and reality,

and all other dualities. 

4

We, who we worship You by constantly chanting

Your Holy Names, remember that You are

Infinite Divinity, within and beyond all names,

forms, and personalities. 

5

This spiritual practice of chanting Your Holy

names and remembering You helps to transform

us. With this remembrance we evolve out of the

states of material, mental, intellectual, egoistic

and spiritual suffering. Gradually, we reawaken

to the tranquil beauty of the Self. 

6

The more we chant Your Holy Names, the more

we see how to use them to ward off wicked thoughts

while purifying our consciousness, awareness, and

intelligence. 

7

Through the ages, souls such as we have chanted

Your Holy Names and made spiritual progress to the

Self. While chanting Your Holy Names, our consciousness

is quieted of unedifying thoughts.

8

As we advance in our chanting of Your Holy Names,

They quiet the consciousness of all thoughts. The

consciousness becomes quiet and still, free from

thoughts. At this stage of our spiritual development,

we experience the tranquil joy of Everlasting

Omnipresent Peace, emanating from the region of

the Seventh Chakra.

9

The Seventh Chakra, also known as the Sahasrara

and Crown Chakra, is located near the center of

the head almost directly above the Pineal Gland.

This is the exit to Infinite Consciousness,

Awareness, and Intelligence, first seen for some,

as a huge lavender colored Lotus flower within

inner consciousness and awareness.

10

This Pineal Gland, according to our research,

observation, and experience, is the seat of

awareness in the body, and the gateway to the

Crown Chakra. The exit to the Core of us all,

The Eternal, Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Infinite

Consciousness, Awareness, and Intelligence, is

this Crown Chakra.

11

We chant Your Holy Names from the Sahasrara

by being aware of space, the screen of consciousness;

air coming in and out of the nostrils, the sound of

Silence; being aware the rising and falling of the

air in the chest, by being aware of consciousness,

being aware of Awareness Its Self, and being

cognizant as Intelligence, pervading and

transcending consciousness and awareness.

12

When Exercising or practicing chanting Your Holy

Names in one of the above ways, it is very difficult,

if not impossible for thoughts to enter our

awareness, grow in our consciousness, and

overwhelm our ordinary intelligence.

13

When we "Drop" our guard, and thoughts do come

on the screen of consciousness, consciousness is

mistakenly called "Mind." In reality, there is no

"Mind." There are only thoughts inside of

Awareness, on the screen of consciousness.

14

The more the consciousness is quiet and

thoughtless, the greater our experience of

the beauty of Everlasting, Omnipresent Peace.

This is our original, natural state of Consciousness,

Awareness, and Intelligence. 

15

Always chanting Your Holy Names and thinking of

You is remembering You, the Most Pure. This is one

of the spiritual practices we are using to experience

knowledge of Self as Eternal, Pure Intelligence, above

consciousness, awareness, and ordinary intelligence

16

We chant Your Holy Names and think of You as The

Supreme Absolute, Here, Now, within and beyond the

illusions of space and time. 

17

In ignorance we think of You as name, form or

personality. Many of us began experiencing Your Eternal,

Omnipresent Peace, by chanting Your Holy Names. Then

we experience the fact that this Peace of Yours is beyond

understanding, while pervading it. Name, form, boundaries

personalities, are meaningless in the Eternal Light of Your

Peace.

18

Your Holy Name keeps our consciousness still and

quiet while enlightening us from the illusions of

forms, boundaries, and personalities.

In Enlightened Intelligence, we know You are

within and beyond living and nonliving, and You

are within and beyond the temporary Cosmic

Manifestations of names, forms, boundaries, and

personalities.