Chap 10 contd.

Mantras

Tap into the Divine power within and without. Use and repeat God’s holy Names. Select the Mantra of choice, or better still get a mantra from a knowledgeable Guru.

Repeat as much as possible.

From India we have for example the mantras:

Hari Om

Soham

Hare Krishna

Rama, Rama.

Om Namah Shivaya

And many, many more.

Also “seed” mantras associated with the chakras- described in my other books also.

Mentally repeat the mantra. (Called japa)

Mantra’s power will then do the work for you as desired. (I.e. can be used for wealth or spiritual growth. You choose).

Mantra is vibrational healing, of the soul through to mind, body, and to your environment.

In addition, mantras create a shield of “armour” around you to protect from curses, violence and accidents.

Higher vibration emanating from mantra repetition rises above darkness, or even evil forces.

It is a remedy for depression because you bypass it. It is left behind in the darkness. In the “Higher Rooms” there is only light.

You are not your body and mind. You are the “Witness” Your natural state is Sat, Chit, Ananda. Existence, Knowledge, Bliss.

Light is always you as the Divine soul. It is your birth right. You may need to connect with it., even though it is just there.

We separate ourselves from Light, we live in darkness. Change perspective and focus

Seek Divine Grace.

The Divine is perfect and complete, and emanations from the Divine, such as this world of Life and the Universe, are complete in purpose. Be it your belief in the Goddess as the creature, or God as Him, or as the Big Bang. Whatever is produced in this Cosmic Consciousness is interconnected with sound.

Even though many components emanate, a wide variety of sounds are associated. A sound for each aspect. Thus, there are many mantras and each of the major ones has an extensive history of practice, and is seated within a body of ancient knowledge.

Our consciousness identifies with matter, the illusion that is Maya. Matter is created and destroyed at some point of time, but nothing really disappears. Hence, we can agree with much of science here. (The Big Bang is after all a “large sound’). However, we are in fear, and rush around, because we cannot understand the essential essence of both the Transcendent self and the Maya created forms in life. We do not connect with the underlying sound. The mantra makes this connection, and gives us understanding to the point of Enlightenment. After all Maya is just the Goddess going about her business!

We do not ask the real questions. Not what is your name, but what sounds are you composed of?

Our consciousness is ignored. However, we try to control nature. Unless you know yourself as Divine (in sound), all else is just fleeting experience. A trip!

Do not fear, just worry about:

Who am I?

What is reality?

What is experience?

How do I serve?

Find your mantra/s. They will attune you to the collective and the individual consciousness. Sat Chit Ananda.

Mantra is a combination of special sounds and vibrations that purify space, body, mind and consciousness from negative energies. Mantra is an ancient sacred formula that gives a powerful Divine energy, and is the key that opens the way to the Divine knowledge.

Repeat the mantras as much as possible any number of times.

There is manta science regarding repetition. Use a rosary or Mala.

108 times, is considered sacred, as it is the number of Rishis, (or seers), in the sky as stars.

Chant, sing, write, or meditate silently.

The Mala is charging with Divine energy and thus is an excellent talisman or amulet. Treat it with due respect!

Kundalini, depression & medicine

Kundalini works in the body through the chakra centres. It flows & allows blocks to move. That is physical, psychological, mental, and emotional.  Everything.

This can pay out, in the broadest sense.  Hopefully, to increase Bliss.  Suffering and Bliss. How these words resonate within the religious or spiritual sphere. Kundalini revealed and free to flow is synonymous with a deep spiritual awareness, and a connection with the Divine.  However, at some point the full process of energy involvement through the centres or chakras becomes irrelevant. We may do our daily spiritual practice, move into the sphere of knowledge and awareness of Oneness or around us.  So really the whole idea of human awakening “upwards” through the chakras can be dispense with, or reversed, as one becomes more proficient.

The same divine energy comes down to enable a somewhat different but still divine experience. From a religious perspective, we worship a divine firstly as external deity, & as a powerful being. We are at risk of being the ostrich. With head buried in the sand; if we are not aligned to divine energy presenting into our human lives, mentally and physically, as they are. That is the idea that meditating on kundalini arising may be somewhat misleading.

The external teacher or guru can help with clarification. Will this be Jesus, the Buddha, or our own Gurus or any source that we seek for guidance? Remember that we are already connected to the divine, because we are already part of a divine universe. This can be seen in the sense that a spark is not different in essence to the fire.

Many who write about kundalini talk of periods of despair and feelings of failure?  It seems similar to reports of religious experience that at senior stage of practice, God seems to turn away.  Such descriptions have a very strong correlation to that of depression as a psychiatric disorder characterized by specific symptomatology.  The connection of spirituality and depression, or a deep abyss, seems there, but what about this in terms of kundalini energy? What about our own levels of enlightenment for a rising of kundalini, and does a descending of divine energy really awaken consciousness in the body?

This is in some conflict with taught aspects of our kundalini practice, but the purpose and function of kundalini is to enable us to have an experience of the witness stage, where we “”see through” life as it is. Ultimately kundalini is a holy force aligned to the goddess energy. Otherwise known as the Holy Spirit in the West.  It takes us out of our material craziness, but also it takes us through them, not passing by them or burying them.  The Awakening does not make us mad or bad, we already were there! 

We do however have to take what cure we really need to take, and leave what we can discard.  For instance, much of religion has become distorted over the years, and often serves no purpose or, confuses and even destroys us. We need then to see religion as something that can help us only in parts. 

Does Prozac have a place? Does Valium have a place?  Do we get a therapist? Herbalist, crystal gazer, acupuncturist, psychiatrist, hypnotist. The options are multiple, but the opinions are even more so. Some believe psychiatry is the work of the Devil. For some it’s the only way. In short, degrees of fundamentalism are very common.  It is actually all around us in many forms, and even is the new norm!

Kundalini yoga is supposed to be therapeutic. There is some research into its practice, Of course quite a lot of research looks at the value of meditation.  Writers in this field have express views that the kundalini process can include physical and mental problems. They also agree that the kundalini process can lead to the unveiling of the true self and enlightenment.

Depression may be located in the heart chakra, its effects appear to be in the brain area. The right side of the heart is described as a true spiritual centre. A number of teachers are very clear on this view. Depression also has echoes in monasticism and renunciation. The Sanskrit word vairagya means dispassion. In this case, it is almost a complete abhorrence of the world that drives a person into the state of renunciation known as sannyas. This seems similar to the state of anhedonia, which is in psychiatry is a loss of interest in all the world that previously appeared attractive.

The early life of the Buddha also illustrate this overwhelming urge through “sadness”, to remove oneself from the world at all costs, even if one was a king. One view would be that he had a very low mood, the second of the two main symptoms of clinical depression. The connection between the centre of the heart and the right side of the body is an esoteric subject all of its own. The product of these two areas may be a conflict between this life of the family, society and the male female domain, and the domain of monasticism, and introspection. Its cave vs the cafe! Alternatively, we could see also a focus on good vs evil.

This primary chakra however may be more than just one chakra. It seems to be an area that is reached after the crown chakra has been breached. A sort of umbrella of light then moves down from the head to the heart area, and then all around the body.

Does the concept of depression connected to kundalini and spiritual awakening, a higher process that is trying to connect and balance both of flow and of energy to and from divine consciousness?  This view meets the needs and aspirations of the human personality. In present society moving into an ever advancing research, approaches to medical treatment to mental health may come to a recognition of kundalini type “electricity”. If currently medication approaches stay limited in their effectiveness, it needs that the true workings of the brain are found, and the consequent cures thus “discovered” Then kundalini energies may be recognized just as the power of meditation and other spiritual practice is being “discovered”.  At this point, we can say that psychiatric drugs to some degree are toxins that may damage the brain, whilst healing the disorders.  This is no different from saying that Panadol or aspirin is harmful. Just because we may say that psychiatry is defunct, we can also say the same about religion, or new age, or spiritual practice.  In reality if we find a medication that helps us without significant side effects, there should be no conflict between our spiritual practice and scientific evidence-based medicine