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The Moola Mantra and Me

4/4/2014

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Some of you will have noticed little signals in my writing - small but frequent mentions that I am not entirely happy where I am geographically. I'm homesick for Scotland in a number of different ways, and struggling to love the environment I'm living in. One of the things I have trouble with is car journeys, especially if I'm a passenger, because then I really have time on my hands to look around me and see all the things I don't like. A dry, rather colourless and windblown landscape which has suffered terrible environmental degradation, littered with the careless leavings of unsustainable and failing agricultural processes, with signs of poverty and hopeless ignorance everywhere. (Yeah, I fitted a lot of negativity into that last sentence, didn't I?) That's how I see it on a bad day, and it is one kind of truth.
The thing is, though, that since I live a long way from any amenities, I have to go places by car quite a bit, and I often find it quite distressing. Not fun. So much not fun, that I have probably been avoiding it more than I realise. However, I seem to have stumbled upon a really good remedy!
About a year ago, I signed up for a 21 day meditation challenge with Deva Premal and Mitten. Each day featured a mantra, one of which was the Moola Mantra. The words of that mantra are:
Om
Sat Chit Ananda
Parabrahma
Purushothama
Paramatma
Sri Bhagavathi
Sametha
Sri Bhagavathe
Namaha
Deva explains their meaning this way:
Sat - truth, Chit-  consciousness, Ananda -  bliss  (this is also a mantra in its own right)

Parabramha - the unmanifest divine, the divine that is all around us, the air we breathe, the space that's all around us permeating everything.

Purushothama - the divine that is manifest in human beings, as our spiritual teachers, gurus, avatars, enlightened masters.

Paramatma - the soul that's within every living thing, the divine essence that's within every living thing.

Sri Bhagavathi Sametha Sri Bhagavathe - the feminine principle together with the masculine principle.

Namaha - I offer salutations (to all of the above). So to the divine in its unmanifest form, then channelled into our teachers and gurus, then coming to the universal understanding of everything being divine, of everything being a reflection of the divine perfection  and then the dance of the feminine and the masculine energy like a yin and yang at the end of the mantra.

It's so easy to acknowledge the divine in things we like, or people we like. In pretty things. Less easy to do so in the things we find ugly, in people or actions we find ill-intentioned. It's easy to forget that the unmanifest divine somehow permeates all. It's easy for me to feel that if I don't fight the things I don't like, then somehow they win and I have given up. But I think that just creates blocked energy rather than the flowing energy with which I am able to create and to manifest useful change. But back to the Moola Mantra...
I loved this mantra so much the way Deva explained it. To look around me, and remember that the divine is in everything is very good for me. I also loved her musical interpretation of this, and found out that there is an entire fifty minute version. I bought a copy. It seemed like good driving music, so I put it in my car. Well, maybe you can see where this is going ...
It has helped immensely. Whether that's because, as some believe, the Sanskrit words of mantras have some extra mystical power, or because I have connected with their meaning at a conscious level, or just something in the music - I feel better connected to the landscape, more lovingly connected, and much calmer. And I think that this effect has filtered out a bit into the rest of my time, as well.

If you enjoyed this post, you might also like Thoughts on Guided Meditation

If you would like to read a more detailed explanation of the Moola Mantra I like
this one (scroll down to the "Full Meaning").

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4 Comments
Marian
5/4/2014 11:08:09 pm

My case is the other way round. I received the moola mantra from a friend, and then I found the 21 days. I overcame a serious surgery but also experienced great changes within. I live in green and beautiful Galicia, in Spain. But -know what?- everything has a price. And all these beautiful shades of green, all these rivers and some beautiful little waterfalls come together with mist, and humidity, and rains without stop for months and months. Artritis and other similar issues are killing me. In spite of all the beauty surrounding me, I´ll have to move. I´ve found strenth to think about it and to start preparing for the change. Gayatri mantras and all the music sung by Deva Premal are daily great good company. Namaste.

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Kris
11/4/2014 02:57:57 pm

Marian - I wish you all the best when you make your move. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
- Kris

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Keechy
6/4/2014 07:03:23 pm

Heh, funny when two people I follow turn out to have their own contact. :) I love these guys but usually listen to their live album as I like to hear the audience singing along too. This is blissful though.

Yes would find it hard to live and drive through there. Climate change is affecting the dryland forest where I live and I had already deternined that if it happens too fast, I can't stay here and watch my beloved Jarrah/Marri forest die. I will have to move then. In the meantime I will keep on planting and caring. Think i should be listening to this mantra every time I get too het up about the lack of interest so many people show in the way we are taking our planet down with us. Especially the current Australian government! Argh!

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Kris
11/4/2014 03:01:12 pm

Yes, it is hard to witness humanity's unkindness toward Mother Earth! However, it doesn't help to let this knowledge drag us down, either. It's tough to know where the balance lies, sometimes. Thanks for your comment. - Kris

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