Spirituality: What no one told you
Mantra chanting is one of the easiest ways to meditate, I have found over the years. The words may sound inane, but they are powerful enough to open the chanter up to different dimensions, activate karmic patterns and hasten evolution. That sounds so good. The concept has been marketed even better. The science of spirituality has been bandied online to saturation point. There are scores of websites detailing different mantras for different purposes and deities. That much is useful. There are many paths to evolution and it is alright for one to choose one’s own path rather than walk one that has been imposed. That’s where the usefulness of the cleverly marketed guidance on mantra chanting ends. Hardly anyone mentions the hard part of mantra meditation or essentially any kind of spiritual practice. The hard part is the cleansing of karmas, the balancing of accounts, the chiseling of the spirit and the tests that mark lessons learned and the possibility of being promoted to the...