The Power of Chanting the Holy Names

It is said in this age of kali yuga or in other words the winter of our conscious cycle. The best way to purification and illumination is to chant the holy names of God. We know that all things are cycles and that spring, summer,fall and winter also happen in ages of 24,000 years. In the Gold age or the summer age man and woman could meditate on the supreme lord and reach illumination. Now in the winter age we only live until 100 years, have many materialistic responsibilities and no way to practice accestisic, or to stay absorbed in meditation for long period of time. It is said that in this age the power of singing he glories of the lord, chanting his names, and dwelling on the pastimes of the lord are able to elevate the soul from its material hankering.

All true esoteric religious traditions know the fact that the soul has descended in or become dense and is now in the material nature. The material nature nullifies the power of the spirit and makes the soul interact through a mortal vessel. This mortal vessel the material body is how we interact here in the physical realm and we are subject to its laws. The body can get hurt it also can cause pain to others hence the crimes of this world. While the soul in incarnated in the material plane it us under the modes of the three gunas. We are either active, passive or neutral. We are either under passion, ignorance , or in the mode of goodness. As humans we have faults and sense hankerings. Perhaps we are above certain sense pleasure and desires but we are bitter and apathetic, perhaps we are in bigotry and feel full of pride. Nevertheless these are the symptoms of the material nature. The goal of any tradition is to link the individual soul with its source or place of causation. The best most efficient way in this age of winter and confusion is to chant the holy name of God, sing the praises and glories of the Solar christic intelligence. Weather you choose to use the name Christ, Jesus, Allah, Vishnu matters not, are all capable of producing the same results because they are all names that refer to the one and only supreme cause and intelligent eternal being.

As material entities our souls are subject to the law of time, the mantras or name of God such as alah alah, or yeshua, or hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare come from the transcendental realms of eternity. Sound is more subtle than the 4 elements, fire water, earth and air hence it is able to put them in a mental state and control them. The sound produce vibrations of love and supreme wisdom and allow the consciousness to rise above the material sense plaine.

Listening and reading the pastimes of the solar God heroes such as Jesus in the new testament as well as Krishna in the bhagavad gita are all ways to help elevate the mind into transcendental states of consciousness. They activate the right hemisphere of the brain which is the receptive feminine side. The conscious mind can use the sacred stories to help formulate an image and then the subconscious mind digest the symbols and you are givin the true meaning through revelation. Listening to the story of Jesus walking in water and stilling the storm, or Krishna directing arjuna on the battlefield produce transcendental thoughts in the brain and allow one experience the higher relaties and transcendental realms beyond the five senses.

If one puts aside time for chanting at least 1 hour a day and or chants with full devotion the holy names of the lord one can surely be purified of bad habits and sinful behavior that produces pain. We take our monkey mind and thoughts that we carry day to day and replace them with the mantra that develops concentration on the causal reality. When we say the name of the prime creator we are putting our energy and focus in respiration we begin to align tize our aurus with the positive vibrations of the names. The names gave power.. Rama, Krishna, Yeshua Christ, Allah, Om VIshnu, OM HAri, hallelujah aglah, yod he vav he, are all names referring to the supreme intelligent cause. When we speak the name or chant we areenvoking the power and intelligence of Christ into our voice and body.

When we do the mantra out loud we are producing physical effects, when we do the mantra internally without external voice and sound we are making effects on the astral body and mental body. The mantra is more powerful and cleansing when done inside our minds.