How can Aum, the sound and the meditation help? It helps because,
once you become silent and peaceful, decisions become easier. Then you are no longer a crowd, not chaos: no longer are many voices talking together and you not knowing which voice is yours.
Through chanting and meditating on Aum, these voices become silent. Now you can see they are not yours. Your mother is speaking, your father is speaking, your brothers, your teachers: they are not yours. You can discard them easily because they don’t need to be given any attention. When you become silent with the chanting of Aum, you are
sheltered, calm, quiet, collected. In that collectedness you can see the real voice. If you chant Aum and remain aware, you will enter into a state of dehypnotisation. It will destroy all the hypnosis that exists
around you, that has been created in you by the society and the manipulators.
In America, Vivekananda was asked
“What is the difference between
ordinary hypnosis and your chanting of
Aum?”
He said, “The chanting of Aum is a
dehypnotise: it is moving in the reverse
gear.”
Patanjali says delusion will disappear if you chant Aum with mindfulness. How will it happen? Delusion means a dreaming state which you are lost in. You are no longer there: just the dream is there. If you meditate on Aum, you have created the sound of Aum and you are a witness,
you are there. Your presence cannot allow a dream to happen. When you are there, there is no dream. Whenever there is a dream, you are not there. You both cannot be together. If you are there, the dream will disappear. Or, you will have to disappear. Both together cannot
be, dream and awareness never meet. That’s why delusion disappears by
witnessing the sound of Aum.
How to chant AUM:
Make it a point for at least twenty minutes in the morning or twenty minutes in the night to sit silently, half open the eyes and just look down. Breathing should be slow, body unmoving. Start chanting Aum with full awareness. Chant in a fully rhythmic way. Just feel that it is vibrating all over the body from the feet to the head, from the head to the feet. Each Aum falls into your consciousness like a rock thrown into a pool and ripples arise and spread to the very end. The ripples go on expanding and
touch the whole body.
Benefits
The chanting of Aum will make you centred. Your breathing will
become rhythmic. The tremors within the body will disappear; you
will not be nervous. Sadness will be replaced by a happy feeling, a joy,
a subtle blissfulness on your face. You are simply happy: just being
here you are happy; just breathing you are happy. You don’t demand
much, and instead of anguish there will be bliss.