Mantras are truth
They are holy words or sentences that were chanted trough the ages by divine seekers. They are infused with great love and light and I am here to tell you that what your life needs right now is more chanting <3
If you’ve been on the spiritual path for a while , I am sure you can feel the the power of words, how one simple structure of letters carries so much information. What I love about mantras is that they are made of a perfect string of beautiful, healing words that you repeat over and over again. It’s a holy beautiful invitation into your own heart and it brings peace and ignites the fire of devotion every time you enter this sacred space of music and perfect loving words.
There are no exact translations of any mantra, just many poetic interpretations of it’s multilayered wisdom. Which I think is beautiful. It means it cannot be understood with the mind. In order to fully understand its meaning, you have to fall deep in the energy behind the words.
Whatever blissful state the mantras were born from, many many years ago, you, now, in the presence of this mantra, might as well follow the same path back into that bliss. It’s like a yellow brick road that opens, and every time you speak the mantra, you take a step. The journey is long but never underestimate the power of a single step. A step you walk in the good direction, a step you walk towards the light is everything.
A japa is a repetition of a divine name or a mantra. It can be done in a meditative state or during your daily activities. The sacred number of repetition is 108 times. It’s believed we have 108 nadis or vital points in our body and every mantra repetition activates one of these points.
Benefits of chanting mantras
Calms your mind and connects you to the light in you. Everything will feel better after 108 repetitions of a mantra.
Your mind feels more clear and you feel more grounded. Whatever you are dealing with in your day, whatever question you may have, reciting a mantra will help you get clarity and energy to bring healing and peace.
For me it’s like you are building a sacred space all around you and every repetition is a piece of that, like creating a light globe enveloping your whole life and it’s made of 108 parts. Every time you say the mantra, one piece lights up and by the end of it you are fully immersed into light.
A mantra is like sacred invisible geometry. You take a perfect holy verse and it will heal you only if you say it once. It’s so powerful and filled with light. If you could only see the light that shines in you when you speak it. And then you get to say again and again and it has a deeply profound healing and transformative effect on your whole being. You will never be the same again.
We tend to not be fully aware of the power of things. Now we have access to everything all the time and we can just have a mantra in the background on our yoga practice. But these mantras have immense light and were chanted in temples by masters and their disciples for hundreds of years.
Every time someone chants the mantra, I think it adds to its power and light, and now you are part of that. It was chanted in temples by Enlighted masters and now you get to sing it in your living room. Now it’s your turn to add to this light.
I can’t really put it into words cause I really feel so much energy around it but mantras have such great power. They are perfect words, a string of divinely inspired, carefully chosen words. The master who wrote it, did so after years and years of devotion and he channeled this grace into the world and now it’s ours to keep and speak.
You probably won’t feel the magic right away, or maybe you will. But I do feel it’s so important on our spiritual practice to spend time listening and most importantly singing mantras. They are truth, they are love and it will heal your heart in so many ways. The more you sing, the better you will feel. Find your favorite mantras, they are so many, but you will naturally be drawn to a mantra and you can sing it in times of need and calm your soul.
When you feel overwhelmed do a little chant and let the light flow and bring you back to clarity. 10 minutes of chanting will make a really big difference. It’s one of the best things you can do for energy balance and gaining new insights for whatever question you may have in the moment. Ask a question. do a mantra and see if you notice a new light shining trough.
Try it. Here’s a good place to start, with one of my favorite mantras dedicated to Ganesha , the God of new beginnings, of great wisdom and luck, it’s a mantra for removing of obstacles.
the lyrics are:
And this is a playlist with some of my favorite mantras.