Repeating mantras daily has profound effects on your mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being, and living a harmonious life. Here are the benefits:
- Calms the Mind: Mantras help to focus the mind, reducing distractions and promoting a state of inner calm and relaxation.
- Reduces Stress: Regular practice of mantra meditation has been shown to reduce levels of stress and anxiety by activating the body’s relaxation response.
- Improves Concentration: Mantra repetition can enhance concentration and mental clarity, helping to improve cognitive function and productivity.
- Promotes Self-awareness: Mantras can help you become more aware of your thoughts, emotions, and reactions, fostering greater self-understanding and self-awareness.
- Enhances Spiritual Growth: Many people use mantras as a spiritual practice to connect with their inner self, higher power, or universal consciousness, promoting spiritual growth and enlightenment.
- Boosts Positive Energy: Mantras often have positive affirmations embedded within them, which can help to cultivate positive energy, optimism, and a more positive outlook on life.
- Improves Sleep Quality: Regular mantra meditation can help to improve sleep quality by promoting relaxation and reducing insomnia symptoms.
- Enhances Emotional Well-being: Mantra repetition can help to release negative emotions, reduce feelings of anger, resentment, and sadness, and promote emotional balance and well-being.
- Strengthens Resilience: By fostering a sense of inner peace and equanimity, mantra practice can help you develop resilience and cope more effectively with life’s challenges and adversities.
- Cultivates Mindfulness: Mantra meditation is a form of mindfulness practice that encourages you to stay present and fully engaged, enhancing overall mindfulness and awareness in daily life.
Weekly Dose of Enlightenment
Are you familiar with the Gate, Gate Mantra?
Gate, Gate, Paragate, Para Sam gate Bodhi svaha
Gate, Gate, Paragate, Para Sam gate Bodhi svaha
Gate, Gate, Paragate, Para Sam gate Bodhisvaha.
Bodhi Svaha
Gone, Gone, Gone beyond Gone utterly beyond
Gone, Gone, Gone beyond Gone utterly beyond
Gone, Gone, Gone beyond Gone utterly beyond
Oh what an Awakening
Gate means gone. Gone from suffering to the liberation of suffering. Gone from forgetfulness to mindfulness. Gone from duality into non-duality.
Paragate means gone all the way to the other shore. Gone, gone, gone all the way over.
In Parasamgate sam means everyone, the Sangha, the entire community of beings. Everyone gone over to the other shore.
Bodhi is the light inside, enlightenment, or awakening. You see it and the vision of reality liberates you.
And svaha is a cry of joy or excitement, like “Welcome!” or “Hallelujah!” “Gone, gone, gone all the way over, everyone gone to the other shore, enlightenment, svaha
No Coming, no Going
No coming, no going
No after, no before
I hold you close to me,
I release you to be so free
Because I am in you, and you are in me
Because I am in you, and you are in me.
Pronounce
The word Gate is pronounced Ga-ta. It’s Sanskrit. Repeat the mantra 108 times during the day.