3 Amazing Things Happened When I Chanted This Ancient, Powerful Hindu Mantra
Chanting Om Namah Shivaya changed my worldview and jump-started my spiritual practice.
At 3:00 AM, I woke up to an explosion of light and waves of powerful energy surging through my body. Then I was at peace — more so than at any time in my life.
It was the mid-eighties, and I was hungry for everything spiritual. I wanted the wisdom and enlightenment I was reading about in books like The Varieties of Religious Experience, Cosmic Consciousness, and The Three Pillars of Zen.
I was not practicing any spiritual path or religion. I wanted to meditate but couldn’t overcome the chatter, noise, and worry in my head. I was working in marketing in Palo Alto, California.
One day I was reading the book Play of Consciousness by Swami Muktananda. He said something that lit a fire. I’ll paraphrase.
Mantras are potent. The mantra, ‘Om Namah Shivaya,’ is one of the most powerful. It means I bow to Shiva. And if you chant it silently, unceasingly, night and day, wonderful things will happen.
And I bought it 100 percent! I chanted “Om Namah Shivaya” for 30 days silently — on the word of a famous guru I’d never met.
