Chanting the Holy Names 3
Thank You Aum. Thank You Ra. Thank You Gye Nyame.
Thank You Aum. Thank You Ra. Thank You Gayatri.
Hari Aum Tat Sat. Aum Ra. Namo Namaha.
Chanting Your Holy Names purifies us, helps us to remember
You. Remembering You, always thinking of You, is the
Master Key to Your Kingdom. This Eternal Kingdom is
within and beyond our own levels of consciousness.
We deliver ourselves from the ignorance of illusory
existence by chanting Your Holy Names. This is effective
because it helps us remember You, the Most Enlightened.
You are the Source of the Righteousness, Love, Peace, and
Truth with which we can elevate ourselves from ignorant
brute to Eternal Divinity.
You are the Supreme Purity. We cleanse our consciousness of
all impurities by associating with You. Chanting Your names
and offering all to You is our method of associating with You.
In this way we are coming back to our original consciousness.
Truth, Righteousness, Love, and Peace are the sum
and substance, the four foundation pillars of Your Kingdom
of Infinite Purity and Strength. The more our consciousness
is purified as a result of Your association, the more we
manifest our original nature of Truth, Righteousness, Love,
and Peace. Always thinking of You is the beginning of our
purification process.
The more we chant Your Holy Names and offer You
everything, the greater our natural love and devotion for You
unfolds. This association with You purifies our consciousness
of the ignorance of thinking the self is a material body, mind,
intellect, or ego.
We increase our confidence in ourselves and raise the self
by the Self by chanting Your Holy Name, thinking critically,
and submitting everything to You. No doubt, this is one of
the most constructive forces we have for our
Self- development. This spiritual practice is also known as
self purification.
The more we are purified by chanting Your Holy Names, and
offering You everything, our mind is freed from the
shackles of Maya, and we return to consciousness as the
Eternal, Witness. We thank You for helping us to be engaged
in remembering You. When brother death arrives, it can
only take the physical body, mind, intellect, and ego, the self
is with You.
Remembering You, the living being gradually rises out of
Maya, the worlds of misery, and returns to complete Pure
Awareness, our original nature. Thank You for inspiring
us to chant Your Holy Names constantly and surrender all
to You.
Thank You for showing us this ancient, scientific process of
chanting Your name and submitting all to You. It is a
philosophy and practice which, when applied with patience
and determination, cleanses and liberates us into the purity
and decency of Truth.
Where the Self is, how can there be any knowledge?
How can there be either forms or the absence of forms?
Where there is the Supreme, infinite as the sky,
How can there be any differentiation of objects?
Saptamo adhyayah
Chapter 7, Verse 5