With All Senses.... A Transformation

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They say if three out of the five senses are focused on one thing then the mind cannot stray. This is the reasoning behind chanting mantras on beads. In Sanskrit man" means the mind and "tra" means to control. Mantra chanting is an ancient yoga practice to control the mind.

Speaking the mantra out loud, the ears are forced to hear and the beads being passed through the fingers with each mantra captures the sense of touch. But that is only three of the five senses.

So what about smelling and tasting? Sometimes the mind itself is considered the sixth sense. Smelling can be captured with the fragrance of a flower offered to the mantra. In the same way, tasting food offered to the mantra captures the sense of taste. Different mantras accept different types of food. Vegetables, milk and grains are recommended for the maha mantra. The great mantra for deliverance.

The mind serves the senses. It gets messages from the senses... I need this or I want that and the mind tries to get whatever it is. So there you go. All the senses focused on one thing, a sound vibration. The mind cannot go anywhere else.

I practice this. It's really quite sublime. Other yoga systems are not very practical for our modern world. Other yogas require going somewhere completely secluded. Hard to even find somewhere like that nowadays... without a plane flying overhead or a satellite putting out electro magnetic waves. Or a river that isn't full of industrial waste, etc.

Mantra yoga is recommended by Vedic authorities who are well-versed on the subject of controlling the mind and the senses. I find it very very helpful.. After all if you really think about it, everything is vibration. Nothing is really stationary. Everything is in motion. Atoms, electrons etc.. All moving. So sound is very basic. Practicing mantra meditation can actually affect everything else. The whole body can be transformed. And becomes something of a transmitter to affect the surroundings.

It requires practice with full attention which means with all the senses.

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