When the mind is thus perfectly still through the power of the Name, you attain to a state of self awareness or witness consciousness

Nama Article 28th November 2009

 

Swami Papa Ramdas

 

When you chant the Beloved's Name, your mind gets enchanted by its sweet music and will take up the refrain. The mind is now inebriated with a strange and rare joy. Whenever it wanders, by the repeated infusion of this joy, it becomes immediately steady and placid.

 

It is the waves of lower desires arising in it that cause the disturbance. When the mind is thus perfectly still through the power of the Name, you attain to a state of self awareness or witness consciousness.

 

In a subtle way, you are made to transcend the relative nature of your life, with which you had identified yourself through ignorance, and come to realize that you are one with a vast, illimitable and eternal Truth or Life.

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare 
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare