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Mantra-Meditations
Sacred Sounds part 1
Music meditations to easily deepen the contact with your inner being. These mantras are about you and your longing for your inner ground, the primordial energy and life force that gave birth to everything.
Mantras
1. Aum Shanti Aum – mantra-meditation
2. Sat Cit Ananda – mantra-meditation
3. Amen – mantra-meditation
4. Aum Mani Padme Hum – mantra-meditation
5. Being – mantra-meditation
6. Kyrie Eleison – mantra-meditation
How to use the Mantra Meditations
The mantra meditations need only be listened to with an open ear and mind. By receptive listening, Anandajay means that you allow the mantra and its vibrations to fully enter you as you feel yourself. By listening in this way, you become receptive and open. The way in which the mantra is sung or recited (monotonous repetition with or without cadence) supports the meditation. If the mantra is sung in a higher tone, it facilitates the connection with your longing for the essential within, and if the mantra is sung in a lower tone, it supports your descent into yourself. In these mantra meditations, the lower tone is mainly used for internalization.
You can listen to the mantra meditations or sing the mantra. Listening has the advantage that you do not have to concentrate on singing and can remain calm. Listening makes you receptive and open, qualities that will certainly benefit the meditations. While listening, the duration and periods of silence are also predetermined for you, as the background noise becomes much quieter, allowing you to give your meditation experience even more space. After more than 20 minutes, the background noise will become a bit louder or you will hear some singing bowls to indicate that you can finish the meditation on your own. It is important that you choose a mantra that is meaningful to you, or that contains words that naturally give you a sense of internalization.
Singing the mantra during a mantra meditation has the advantage that the vibration of your own voice resonates directly in your own energy and body. Your devotion, involvement, or being touched is absorbed into your voice, which only benefits the resonance. Of course, you can decide for yourself or feel what pitch you want to sing the mantra in and how long you want to sing it higher to connect with your longing for your soul. When it feels right for you, you can sing the mantra lower to allow it to be more internalized. This also applies to the silences that may be included at some point, and the final silence, which you can decide for yourself.
Track 1: Aum Shanti Aum mantra meditation
Being nourished by peace
Recitation Aum shanti aum, Aum shanti aum, Shanti aum, Aum Free translation “O essential peace, fill me.”
The Sanskrit word aum, ohm, or om can be explained in many ways, but all explanations taken together carry the meaning of joining, of bringing everything together. Thus, it directs our attention to the experience of wholeness. The word aumappears both before and after the word shanti, which means inner peace, to emphasize that the word shanti is to be understood from a sense of wholeness, from a meditative feeling, from an all-encompassing truth. So Aum shanti aummeans that in essence there is nothing but inner peace. As a mantra with aum before and after it, it wants to say to you, “Be whole and a part of the greater whole, and when you open from there to your core, your being or your essence, you will naturally enter into the inner peace that the sounds of the word shanti want to convey to you.”
Track 2: Sat Cit Ananda mantra meditation
Inviting the richness of “Being”
Recitation Sat cit ananda, sat cit ananda Free translation “By consciously ‘being here,’ I experience spiritual happiness.”
The meaning of the Sanskrit mantra sat cit ananda is based on the deep feeling and awareness of being there, and that experiencing the substance and value of yourself is the source of bliss. With this mantra, you repeat the words sat (being), cit (consciousness), and ananda (bliss, inner joy), indicating (or reminding yourself of, or giving permission to experience) that you as a human being have the ability to be aware that you “are” here. Your existence and the experience of the you that is aware of it is the entrance to the source of bliss and inner joy.
Track 3: Amen mantra meditation
Surrendering to the infinite fullness of existence
Recitation Amen, amen, amen, amen Free translation “Yes, so be it, that deep inside I am the essence of life.”
The Hebrew word amen has a meaning of truth, authenticity, and saying a deep “yes” to what you have experienced as truth. It is used as a kind of seal to a prayer or hymn, or to affirm a truth with a “yes.” A prayer is a poem of essential truth. When you experience essential truth, you immediately feel embedded. You feel a tremendous stability and grounding within yourself. Amen is a concept that asks you to experience the true and the real within yourself and to affirm it with a self-loving “yes.” Not from your ego, but from the feeling that you have experienced yourself as a dignified whole. Amen indicates that it is about surrendering to the whole, it is about the greater truth, it is about “letting yourself exist and be.” It means “so be it” and has a healing and therefore sanctifying effect. The word amen gives space to all of creation and the universe. Amen opens you to being and purifies your consciousness. The word amen brings silence and a calming energy to your brain and consciousness. Its sounds bring together all that you are and all that surrounds you, guiding you to surrender to the infinite fullness of existence. Amen encompasses all levels of consciousness, and its sound brings everything together and calms your brain as well as your heart and body.
Track 4: Aum Mani Padme Hum mantra meditation
Let your being blossom
Recitation Aum mani padme hum Free translation “Oh my heart, every time I connect with the shining jewel at your core, naturally my pain of being separated comes to an end and my being blossoms.”
The Sanskrit mantra aum mani padme hum is the most well-known Tibetan-Buddhist mantra and carries the meaning of the wish to connect with the essence of your existence, your heart, your soul, your being, with “the jewel in the lotus of your being.” The word aum draws your attention to the experience of wholeness. The word mani means jewel. The word padme means lotus, and the word hum, like the word aum, is a kind of sealing sound that gives wholeness, connection to the earth, and harmony to what has been said. This mantra easily brings you within, to that which you experience as the most essential of yourself (manipadme). Through the word aum, this mantra opens the connection to the feeling of essence within you, and with the word hum (often pronounced hung in Tibetan), this experience is sealed in a round way.
Track 5: Being mantra meditation
Taking your place in the continuous present
Recitation Being here, being now, being aware of inner ground
This English mantra indicates that you can only be aware of your inner authenticity and value in the here and now. A value that, in all the change and mutability of life, comes to feel like your inner stability or the true ground of your existence. The mantra refers to the primary energies of your humanity. In Hindu terms, it refers to the Mahadevata, the great deities. Vishnu represents continuous existence, bringing you into the eternal “Here” (being here). Shiva symbolizes the continuous transformation, which brings you into the eternal “Now” (being now). Brahma represents the continuous presence within you, which brings you into the eternal “Being” (being aware). And Krishna represents the ongoing longing for the All-Attractive, which brings you to the eternal source or origin of “Love” (inner ground).
Track 6: Kyrie Eleison mantra meditation
Inviting love and embrace
Recitation Kyrie eleison Free translation “Oh Life, I long that we may again be open to each other and I may again be part of your richness, joy and wholeness.”
The meaning of Kyrie eleison is commonly described as “Lord, have mercy.” The word Kyrie is related to the Greek word éléoss, which means mercy and love. Clearly, Kyrie eleison is an invocation to that which is above us. This can be God, as in the Catholic liturgy, but it can also be, as it was used in the past, a king or other authority figure, or simply a power greater than ourselves. Universally, the only thing that qualifies is life. “Life” is greater, wiser, more enriching and more all-encompassing than we currently are. The meaning of the word “eleison” is related to “compassionate,” “soothing,” “comforting,” and “steadfast love” and actually means to be no longer firm, powerful, or resolute. When you are no longer that, you are receptive. To be compassionate is to be receptive, which automatically makes you merciful and loving. So Kyrie eleison is an invocation of life to be receptive again and to no longer exclude yourself. Of course, life doesn’t exclude anyone or anything, because life includes everything. So it is more a question to yourself if you can be open and receptive to life again, rather than asking, “Oh life, be receptive to me again so that I can belong to the whole again and the warmth of the whole can support me again.” Instead, it indicates that I myself long to be reunited with the great power of life. Then it changes to: “Oh Life, I long for us to be open to each other and that I may once again be part of your richness, joy and wholeness.”