Welcome to Meditations in the Heart.
Today we will be meditating with the mantra OM NAMA SHIVAYA.
This mantra can be translated into English as I honor the divine in my own heart.
OM is the primordial sound from which this universe springs forth into manifestation in every moment.
Nama means to honor or bow to.
And Shiva is that experience of pure consciousness that on the heart path we call the transpersonal heart.
Consciousness is not dry and empty.
In fact,
Seers and knowers of the truth say the experience of consciousness is bliss,
Eternal bliss.
Taking a comfortable upright posture,
Take a deep breath in and a long breath out.
Let us begin to repeat this sacred mantra,
A Chaitanya mantra.
This mantra is alive with Kundalini Shakti.
Kundalini is the dynamic creator of our experience.
She is wrapped three and a half times around our base chakra.
And the power of this mantra can awaken the dormant Kundalini within a human being.
That is the power of a Chaitanya,
A living mantra.
This mantra is infused with the awareness,
Love and grace of all the beings throughout time who have repeated it on their path to liberation.
OM Nama Shivaya.
Then by repeating the mantra as you inhale,
OM Nama Shivaya.
And once on your exhalation,
OM Nama Shivaya.
OM Nama Shivaya.
See feel image,
OM Nama Shivaya flowing down into your body through your crown chakra.
Breathing in,
The mantra permeates,
Fills the entire crown of your head.
OM Nama Shivaya.
Breathing out,
The mantra moves down to your third eye chakra.
OM Nama Shivaya.
Filling and stimulating the pineal gland that activates and opens your third eye.
OM Nama Shivaya.
OM Nama Shivaya.
OM Nama Shivaya.
Breathing in,
The mantra descends down into your throat chakra,
Opening this beautiful center of creativity where we enter at night to sleep the Vishuddha Chakra,
The fifth throat chakra.
Repeat silently to yourself.
OM Nama Shivaya.
OM Nama Shivaya.
OM Nama Shivaya.
See feel image,
Yourself moving your mind's eye down to the heart,
Your beautiful sacred heart and fill the heart with the vibrations of this Chaitanya Kundalini awakening mantra.
OM Nama Shivaya.
OM Nama Shivaya.
Notice subtle changes in your chest,
Perhaps a rising and an opening,
Releasing of the chest muscles so that your heart can lift up,
Rise up into the light created by the repetition of these sacred syllables.
OM Nama Shivaya.
On your next inhalation,
See feel image,
Your awareness dropping down into your solar plexus.
Here again,
You can infuse the fire in your belly through repeating the mantra.
OM Nama Shivaya.
OM Nama Shivaya.
Dropping down once again into your pelvis,
Repeat the mantra to clear your sacral chakra,
To stir the Kundalini energy so that she may ascend up the spine,
Opening you to the magic and wonder that is meditation.
OM Nama Shivaya.
OM Nama Shivaya.
See feel image finally descending down into your root chakra,
The base of your spine,
Where you experience Kundalini in her primal form.
Finally offer her your salutations,
The honor and respect through repeating the mantra,
Installing the mantra.
OM Nama Shivaya.
Kindle the fire within.
In Kundalini Shakti,
Discover who you really are.
OM Nama Shivaya.
OM Nama Shivaya.
OM Nama Shivaya.
Meditate.
Repeat the mantra to experience your own liberated state of being.
If the mantra falls away,
Disappears on its own,
And you are left in the stillness of the heart,
Allow it to be.
It is perfect.
The mantra is the vehicle into the experience of the heart.
OM Nama Shivaya.
OM Nama Shivaya.
OM Nama Shivaya.
OM Nama Shivaya.
