You can go and do some research on it, more and more things will come out. There is a lot of depth and meaning to it. So, fire, water, incense sticks, fruits, flowers, rice, whatever nature has given to us, those things are used and the chanting goes on. Pooja means honoring all the elements, born out of fullness. So in our ashram also, every Monday, we have this.Īll the five elements are used in pooja. So, in India, it is a tradition, they have this chanting going on in the Ashrams. Mantra, mind, moon, they are all connected somewhere. Monday is the day of the moon and the moon and mind are connected.
Or you allow a string of water to keep falling on a crystal and you listen to this chanting – this is the ancient method.Īnd done on Mondays it is even more special. What they do is they keep a fire and they put different herbs for the different chants. It is done with water or in fire as well. That is it.Īnd as this is being chanted, usually milk and water runs through the crystal, drop by drop. ‘ Abhayanchame’, fearlessness, happiness, health, all the good things in the universe, let them all come to me, and they are all part of me. Like that, ‘ Sugamchame’, happiness for me! The second part is everything is for me and everything is in terms of me.Įven for numbers they say, ‘ Ekaachame’, which means, one, two, three, four, they are all my form Myself. ‘ Me’ in English comes from the Sanskrit word ’ Ma’, which means Myself. Then, the second part will say, ‘Chame, chame, chame, chame.’ You have heard this, isn’t it?! This means, everything is in Me. In the trees, in the greenery, in the birds, even in the thieves, and in a dacoit, everywhere, it is the same one principle. And when that Bramhan becomes personal, it is called Shiva Tattva – the innocent Divinity that is in everything. Tattva means principle.Ī great principle by which everything is made of, they called it Bramhan.
Thousands of years ago the Rishis said the same thing, that everything is made up of one thing, and that they called Brahman. Now, what do the scientists today say? God Particle – by which everything has been made.
When it goes to its source, what does it find? Everything is made up of one consciousness. When the mind goes outside to experience the world, it is Mana. The mind going to its source is called Nama. The word mind in English comes from Sanskrit word Mana. There are two parts, the first part says, ’Namo, namo, namo, namo!’ If you ask me, ’Do you know the meaning of all the chants? I will say, ’I also don’t know.’ It’s the vibration of the chants that is important and then the meaning.
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