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This mantra invokes the healing power of the sun. When using it, for maximum benefit spend some time in the sun each day. You will achieve optimal results by practicing the mantra between ten and twenty minutes each day for forty days.

 

Om Hiranyagharbhaya Namaha

(Om Heer an yah gar bah yah Nah mah hah)

-oOo-

“Om and salutations to the Shining One
who heals and is golden-colored.”

Night is tremendously beautiful. It is a good time for meditation. It helps you release the tensions of the day easily and effortlessly. This particular meditation will increase your connection to the Magickal Energy inherent in darkness, starlight, and moonlight.

Here’s a very simple, very effective meditation:

Before you go to bed at night, alone or with a partner, sit silently, look into the darkness. Become one with the dark, disappear into it. Look at the stars — feel the distance, the silence, the emptiness, and use night for your meditation.

Sitting on your bed, or on your balcony, or in your garden, doing nothing…just feeling, just being there. The day is worldly, the night is more spiritual. Over time you will feel tremendously in tune with night. The world is asleep. Everything stops, traffic, noises, the mundane world is quiet. People, their unconsciousness, bad attitudes, have all disappeared into sleep. The atmosphere is clean with no jarring note.

Benefits:

As you start enjoying the beauty of the night, you will feel it more and more. As you absorb the tranquility, serenity, and comfort night offers, your sleep will then carry a meditational and in the morning you feel refreshed in a whole new way.

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Mix your mind with the moonbeams at night. Wash your sorrows in their rays. Feel the mystic light spreading silently over your body, over trees, over vast lands. Standing in an open space with quiet eyes, behold, beyond the limits of the moonbeam-revealed scenery, the bedimmed fringe of the shining horizon. Let your mind, by steady wing-beats of meditation, spread beyond the lines of visible scenes and over the horizon. Let your meditation run past the rim of the visible to the lands of fancy.

Spread your mind from the moonbeam-visible objects to the dim stars and distant skies lying beyond in the eternal stillness of the ether, all throbbing with life. Watch the moonbeams spread, not only on one side of the earth, but everywhere in the eternal region of your spacious mind. Meditate until, in the cool moonbeams of your calmness, you race over trackless skies and, in realization, behold the universe as Light.

~Paramahansa Yogananda, Metaphysical Meditations

Here is a simple tutorial and a simple mantra for a meditation technique. It is very similar to the Transcendental Meditation technique, and if you have a different mantra that you’d like to use, feel free to do so.

The instruction is from the book Deep Meditation by Yogani. The book is a quick and easy read, a slim 100-page book in pretty big type-and at a little under ten bucks, it’s also a bargain. And while I recommend you buy a copy, I thought I’d provide ten key points from the book which are listed below.

1. For most people, twenty minutes is the best duration for a meditation session. It is done twice per day, once before the morning meal and the day’s activity, and then again before the evening meal and the evening’s activity.

2. A word on how to sit for meditation: The first priority is comfort. It is not desirable to sit in a way that distracts us from the easy procedure of meditation.

3. For our practice of deep meditation, we will use the thought I AM. This will be our mantra. We can also spell it AYAM.

4. While sitting comfortable with eyes closed, we’ll just relax. We will notice thoughts, stream of thoughts. That is fine. We just let them go without minding them. After about a minute, we gently introduce the mantra.

5. Whenever we realize we are not thinking the mantra inside any more, we come back to it easily.

6. As soon as we realize we are off into a stream of thoughts, no matter how mundane or profound, we just easily go back to the mantra. Like that. We don’t make a struggle of it. The idea is not that we have to be on the mantra all the time.

7. Thoughts are a normal part of the deep meditation process. We just ease back to the mantra again. We favor it. Deep meditation is going toward, not pushing away from.

8. No struggle. No fuss. No iron willpower or mental heroics are necessary for this practice. All such efforts are away from the simplicity of deep meditation and will reduce its effectiveness.

9. When we realize we have been off somewhere, we just ease back into the mantra again. We are reading it inward with our attention to progressively deeper levels of inner silence in the mind.

10. This cycle of thinking the mantra, losing it, and coming out into a stream of thoughts is a process of purification. It is very powerful, and will ultimately yield a constant experience of inner silence in our meditation and, more importantly, in our daily activity.

This mantra has no approximate translation. The sounds related directly to the principles which govern each of the first six chakras on the spine…Earth, water, fire, air, ether.

Notice that this does not refer to the chakras themselves which have a different set of seed sounds, but rather the principles which govern those chakras in their place. A very rough, non-literal translation could be something like:

‘Om and salutations to that which I am capable of becoming.’

This mantra will start one out on the path of subtle development of spiritual attainments. It is the beginning on the path of Siddha Yoga, or the Yoga of Perfection of the Divine Vehicle.

Sit in an upright position in a chair, with your back straight, feet flat on the floor, and hands comfortably in your lap. If you wish, play soft inspirational or sacred music in the background.

Slowly take three deep breaths. On each exhalation, release all tension or negative thoughts from your mind and body.

Keeping your heart open and receptive, close your eyes. Imagine a ball of rainbow-colored light at the top of your head. Visualize it descending into the center of your brain.

Concentrate on that glowing energy, and direct it down through your neck and into your heart, feeling warmth and love. Continue directing it downward into your stomach and the rest of your organs and finally down through your legs to the soles of your feet and into the ground.

Now visualize this healing and centering energy and light coming back up from the ground and up the back of your legs. Slowly direct it up through the core of your spine and back into your head.

Imagine yourself being lifted gently into the universe. Keeping a sense of your meditative posture, see and feel yourself floating gently in outer space, surrounded by the stars and planets.

Realize that your body and the manifest universe are an inseparable cosmic creation of vibrating atomic polarities.

Realize that all the atoms in your physical body are billions of years old – composed from the exploding light of ancient stars and other electromagnetic energies.

Imagine yourself being pulled into a black hole of radiation, going past time and space into the dark womb of the universe. The silence of this black hole is beyond description – it is intelligence, as yet unthinking. Experience the peace and bliss of this all-pervasive intelligence.

Imagine this intelligence beginning to think and creatively to dream. Suddenly you experience a roaring sound and a spark of visible light spreads. Somehow originating in the sound, the light begins to radiate throughout the darkness. Creation has begun. You perceive vast clouds of many-colored lights that are the formation of galaxies and all the other creations of Earth, including your physical body.

Imagine yourself as the soul within the human body and that the sun’s rainbow-colored light is entering into your physical body. Now imagine streams of electromagnetic energy and waves of visible light pouring out of your body and creatively interweaving with the streams of energy that compost the universe.

Meditate for a momentum this web of light streams that connects your soul, mind, and physical body to the universe. Realize that through the divine inner light of your consciousness you are participating in the creation of this tapestry of light and life.

Gently bring your focus back to the planet Earth and the spot you occupy physical. See with new eyes.
~from Mandala by Judith Cornell

Perhaps something in your life, inner or outer, needs repair or restoration. Life is calling you now to take action and take yourself in hand. Instead of being afraid that you can’t do it, allow yourself to feel the One Being acting through you. This pathway of the heart asks for concentrated, creative energy.

The Meditation:

Center again in the heart.

Breathe the sound Ya JaBaar rhythmically,
bending slightly forward as you breathe out,
and back as you breathe in.

Allow the sound to rock you into action,
like the feeling of riding a camel in the caravan of life.

Allow the sound to spread first to the periphery,
and feel healthy boundaries restored.

Then gently invite all voices of your inner self to gather,
and allow the arms of the Beloved to enfold you in healing.

Continue the meditation for 15 to 20 minutes.
For best results, commit to it as a 40 day practice.

From The Sufi Book of Life
by Neil Douglas-Klotz

These mantras may be chanted anytime to instantly work on you. They work on individual chakras. If you cannot identify the problem but still need healing, you may try you these mantras one by one chanting each for at least two or three minutes. The mantra that heals you and makes you most comfortable is the mantra for you, and the problem you are facing is the one written above it.

Lam

Are you feeling mentally lethargic with a feeling of spaciness?
Are you emotionally unstable ?
Get secure with: the LAM mantra.
Chant “Lam Lam Lam Lam …. “
silently or loudly .. just for a few minutes ..
Are you beginning to feel more stability?
Do you have more energy?

Vam

Maybe you are gripped with fear and insecurity.
Do you have addictions which you need to get rid of?
Face the fear and let go with: the VAM mantra.
Chant “Vam Vam Vam Vam …. “
silently or loudly .. just for a few minutes ..
See how you are filled with courage?

Ram

Do you have anger because you feel victimized?
Are you feeling loss of self esteem?
Are you stressed and depressed?
Stop your worries with: the RAM mantra.
Chant”Ram Ram Ram Ram …. “
silently or loudly .. just for a few minutes ..
See how you calm down?

Yam

Are you hurt emotionally?
Are you feeling lonely and depressed?
Heal your heart with: the YAM mantra.
Chant ” Yam Yam Yam Yam …. “
silently or loudly .. just for a few minutes ..
See how your heart is healing by itself?

Ham

Are you stressed out due to jealousy?
Do you constantly compare yourself with others?
Are you feeling negativity welling up in you as you see the success of another person?
Realize your own uniqueness with: the HAM mantra.
Chant “Ham Ham Ham Ham …. “
silently or loudly .. just for a few minutes ..
See how you turn your energy inwards?

Aum

Do you feel you are very serious, rigid and often stubborn?
Are you unable to accept others ideas easily?
Do you have difficulty making decisions?
Accept the flow of life easily with: the AUM mantra.
Chant “Aum Aum Aum Aum …. “
silently or loudly .. just for a few minutes ..
See how it opens you up?

Shreem

Are you feeling depressed and alienated?
Are you are gripped with obsessional thinking and/or confusion?
Do you feel discontented often and feel negativity towards life in general?
Open yourself up with: the SHREEM mantra.
Chant ” Shreem Shreem Shreem Shreem …. “
silently or loudly .. just for a few minutes ..
See how it effects positivity over you?

These short mantras can also be used as part of a regular mantra practice.

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