Overcoming Limitations
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As people, we all face limitations of both body and mind. Some of us are great athletes, while others suffer from a physical handicap of some type. Some of us are great thinkers, and even some of us go on to earn PhD. degrees and win at game shows like “Who wants to be a millionaire?”. On the other hand, illiteracy is a major issue with not only second and third world countries, but also first world countries as well. So, limitations affect man globally and the question is what can we do about this.
For me, the answer is “mantra meditation”. Mantra meditation is a prayer practice where you simply repeat a holy or sacred sound that, according to the sages of the Himalayas, connects you with the Limitless Divine Energies of the Universe. So, by mere association with the mantra, you are allowing yourself to overcome limitations that you are presently experiencing as a result of your physical body and mind. Mantra meditation is said to have great power in the sense that the mind is purified and redirected to higher awareness. So, one day, your awareness will grow to the point where limitations will no longer apply. But how can this be? …you might ask. Well, if you look at the lives of saints and great beings like Christ and Buddha, they were able to command natural phenomena through their faith and devotion to higher awareness.
I believe that we are all on this same path of unfoldment. So, pick up your prayer beads, recite the mantra that is dear to you and that embodies your concept of divinity, and you are well on the path to overcoming limitations you currently face. This is the path to total health, success, wellness and a definitive sense of oneness with the physical universe.
2 Comments
May 14th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Great Post Keith!
I totally agree with you that Mantra meditation has powerful effects. It is a simple yet very effective way to focus the mind on something bigger than you and to help you realize that you limitations were nothing more than self-imposed.
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May 19th, 2008 at 7:32 am
While I think Mantra Meditation and other such practices have their place, I do not see how claiming it as a cure for people’s illiteracy and physical shortcomings (if you can even call them that) is going to help. Paths are personal, so presecriptive, general solutions to widespread cultural and social problems are both lacking in vision and often far too simplistic.
Also, the notion of commanding nature, as you have Christ and Bhudda doing, belies a lack of understanding about the nature of this higher awareness that they have achieved according to you. A state where the physical limitations of the body no longer apply is almost by definition beyond our interpreted world, and certainly beyond the notion of commanding which contains in it an implicit sense of ones own identity in opposition to the rest of the world and is by its nature a crass and ego-centric view of the world, one which Christ and Bhuddha could not possibly entertain.
I fully agree on the worth of these practices, but there is already far too much misinformation about their usage and effectiveness.
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