Neuroscience of chanting mantras

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Many of us have heard the Gyuto Monks of Tibet. With their extraordinary chanting and the low throaty drone of ancient sacred texts, they have kept audiences in the West spellbound with their long, careful and accurate recitations of potent Tibetan Buddhist texts. Sitting in their presence, you feel clarity and a potent spiritual transference of energy and healing. The Buddhist tradition stems from India and the sacred language of Sanskrit. While Tibetan Buddhists have a rich chanting tradition, in India, this age-old tradition goes back even further.

Sanskrit scholars in India learn to chant ancient texts from a tender age. They chant simple mantras, Sanskrit poetry, and prose, along with memorising and chanting the most ancient Sanskrit texts, including the Shukla Yajurveda, which takes six hours to chant. While those listening to these chantings receive the gift of the sacred texts they are sharing with us, the chanting of long texts does, in fact, have an amazing effect on the brain.

Neuroscience shows how rigorous memorising can help the brain. The term the ‘Sanskrit Effect’ was coined by neuroscientist James Hartzell, who studied 21 professionally qualified Sanskrit pandits. He discovered that memorising Vedic mantras increases the size of brain regions associated with cognitive function, including short and long-term memory. This finding corroborates the beliefs of the Indian tradition which holds that memorising and reciting mantras enhances memory and thinking…

Dr Hartzell’s recent study raises the question whether this kind of memorisation of ancient texts could be helpful in reducing the devastating illness of Alzheimer’s and other memory affecting diseases. Apparently, Ayurvedic doctors from India suggest it is the case and future studies will be conducted, along with more research into Sanskrit. While we all know the benefits of mindfulness and meditation practices, the findings of Dr Hartzell are truly dramatic. In a world of shrinking attention spans, where we are flooded with information daily, and children display a range of attention deficit disorders, ancient Indian wisdom has much to teach the West. Even introducing small amounts of chanting and recitation could have an amazing effect on all of our brains.
– Azriel ReShel, Science proves the power of chanting

Comment by Ricardo B Serrano: The Sanskrit effect of chanting Sri Vidya beej mantras is kundalini activation with balancing and normalizing the Default Mode Network in the brain and the chakras along the spine resulting in healing, energizing and blissful Turiya state.
– Excerpts from pages 11 and 128, Meditation and Qigong Mastery

According to the law of karma, What you give is what you receive. As Jesus said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” When everybody gives, everybody receives by chanting Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu that helps bring balance, love and peace to this troubled world. – Acharya Ricardo B Serrano, page 18, Meditation and Qigong Mastery

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According to my Sri Vidya Guru, Sri Amritananda Natha, Sri Devi:
Hindus call her Gayatri, Christians call her the Virgin Mary, Buddhists call her the Compassion, Sufis call her the Movement; other ancient religions simply call her Mother Earth. She is our source, our sustenance and our end. She is Kundalini, the power moving us toward the unity of all life.

She combines in Herself the tenderness of all mothers and the passion of all lovers, wisdom and insanity, childishness and experience, cruelty and faithfulness.

She is an Angel and a Devil, fire and icy water, She smells of a musk of a barrel house and of an incense of a temple. On the final day of their construction, what is the difference between a bar and a temple? Absolutely none – and they will often have the same customers too!

Devi says, “I am Chirst, I am Christian; I am Mohamed, I am the Muslim; I am Brahmana and I am Chandala; I am God and I am the Devil; I am the sinner and I am the virtuous; I am the wise man as well as the dunce; I am the disciple as well as the Guru; It is I that listen and I that speak; I am certitude and I am doubt; I am Heaven and I am Hell; I am darkness and I am light; I am Yoga and I am Bhoga; I am Freedom and I am Bondage; I am everything. Look, look, look close, I am there in every atom, in every molecule. How can you bear grudge or hatred against anybody? I am all; there is nothing which is not myself. I alone was in the past; I alone am in the present; I alone shall be in the future. Whomsoever you envy, you envy me, in this vast universe, it is I alone, who exist”

She is raw power (the living veritable tigress when She catches hold of you) representing on the one hand Thanatos – the death instinct, and on the other – irrepressible Eros. She represents the burning head of desire plus the detachment of the burial ground.

These are Her two poles; She is the bipolar entity, the unity of opposites. And the world manifests in the separation of Kali and Kala; it disappears in their union.

She is maya; dissolution of maya leads to mahasamadhi from which there is no return. This is the reason why it is insisted that you treat Devi as your mother; then the thought of enjoying Her does not arise that easily in the head, preserving your life. But think! what better way to die than in the hands of mother, to become Shiva, a death like corpse? If you are Her child, She feeds you with milk from Her ever full breasts; and the milk of life is sweet indeed. But in the total recognition there is no second – one does indeed become Shiva and Shakti in union; then there is no manifest world, except the continuous unending bliss. And one who has once tasted the sweetness of it, does not want to come back, except as a sacrifice of freedom brought about willfully!

So long you have been sleeping under delusion; now that you have already known the nature of your own self by the grace of Guru, then why yet to hesitate? By leaving aside all your idleness and giving up all sorts of your weakness, raise up yourself, and with the shouting of ‘DEVI’, ‘DEVI’, awaken Her Dears from their sleep!

tavaivāsmi! tavaivāsmi! na jīvāmi tvayā vinā!
iti vijñāya devi tvaṁ naya māṁ caraṇāntikam!

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Sri Vidya Mantra chanting stimulates the vagus nerve

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Chanting stimulates vagus nerve, page 120, Oneness with Shiva

With continued practice, toning, chanting and humming will literally “tone” the vagus nerve which can help to regulate the nervous system by slowing the heart rate and lowering blood pressure.

A higher vagal tone index is linked to physical and psychological well-being. A low vagal tone index is linked to inflammation, negative moods, loneliness, and heart attacks. — Psychology Today

Prayer is conversation with God. God is the great compassionate physician who alone gives true healing.

Prayer and meditation is like food for the soul or spirit. Praying with prayer beads amplify its effects.

– Excerpts from Chanting stimulates vagus nerve, page 120, Oneness with Shiva

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The Maha Meru Sri Yantra is the three dimensional projection of the great Chakra Yantra (Sri Yantra) that symbolizes Sri Devi Lalitha Tripura Sundari. The Maha Meru Sri Yantra is said to contain the energies of all other Yantras and all traditions. It is considered to be very auspicious when kept in temples, puja and healing rooms, and business places.

The Maha Meru Sri Yantra, queen of all yantra, is among the world’s most ancient Hindu, Shaivite and Buddhist tantric symbols. For many millennia the Sri Yantra has been used to bring good fortune, wealth, health, protection and as an energetic aid to meditation and healing for Sri Vidya practitioners.

Kundalini syndrome is just over active Prana in areas that need clearing and redistribution. Do the Prana work and all will balance…also mix up the practices so you don’t get bored – most Kundalini syndrome is due to boredom. – Raja Choudhury

Kundalini syndrome and its treatment

Theorists within the schools of Humanistic psychology, Transpersonal psychology and Near-Death Studies describe a complex pattern of motor functions, sensory, affective and cognitive-hermeneutic symptoms called the Kundalini Syndrome.

This psychosomatic arousal and excitation is believed to occur in connection with prolonged and intensive spiritual or contemplative practice (such as meditation or yoga) or as a result of intense life experience or a near encounter with death (such as a near-death experience).

According to these fields of study the Kundalini syndrome is of a different nature than a single Kundalini episode, such as a Kundalini arousal. The Kundalini syndrome is a process that might unfold over several months, or even years. If the accompanying symptoms unfold in an intense manner – that de-stabilizes the person – the process is usually interpreted as what Stanislav Grof has termed “spiritual emergency”

Interdisciplinary dialogues within the mentioned schools of psychology (see references below) have now established some common criteria in order to describe this condition, of which the most prominent feature is a feeling of energy travelling along the spine, or progressing upwards in the body.

Motor symptoms are said to include tremors, other spontaneous or involuntary body movements and changes in respiratory function.

Sensory symptoms are said to include subjective changes in body temperature – feelings of heat or cold – a feeling of electricity in the body, persistent sexual arousal syndrome, headache and pressure inside of the head, tingling, vibrations and gastro-intestinal problems.

Cognitive and affective symptoms are said to include psychological upheaval, stress, depression, depersonalization or derealization, intense mood-swings, but also moments of bliss, deep peace and other altered states of consciousness. Within the mentioned academic traditions this symptomatology is often referred to as the Physio-Kundalini syndrome or Kundalini-experience Awakening.

Transpersonal literature emphasizes that this list of symptoms is not meant to be used as a tool for self-diagnosis.

Any unusual or marked physical or mental symptom needs to be investigated by a qualified Sri Vidya meditation and Qigong teacher who specializes in treating kundalini syndrome.

I practice Qigong to redistribute and balance my Qi after Sri Vidya meditation to prevent and treat kundalini syndrome. It works! – Acharya Ricardo B Serrano

Q and A on Kundalini awakening and Qigong:

Question: Hi Raja Choudhury, How can I explain to somebody that she needs kundalini awakening despite her insisting that she doesn’t need it and Qigong is enough for spiritual enlightenment and awakening?

I know that Qigong only affects the energy body (Qi field) – prana kosha – and doesn’t go further up the Anandaya Maya Kosha which kundalini awakening can affect. Would that be enough of an explanation? – Ricardo B Serrano

Answer: Don’t call it Kundalini Awakening. Call it adding Shakti or any other language she likes to her QiGong practice. You can show her the beauty but you don’t have to drag her there kicking and screaming. You can also say that the Chinese integrated many of the Tantric teachings from Buddhism and Hinduism into Taoism and QiGong is a synthesis of that. Every one hears truth and magic through their own lenses and filters. I can even teach Kundalini to a born-again Christian by showing them the power of the Holy Ghost. – Raja Choudhury

– Excerpts from page 69-70, Oneness with Shiva

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Hindus call her Gayatri, Christians call her the Virgin Mary, Buddhists call her the Compassion, Sufis call her the Movement; other ancient religions simply call her Mother Earth. She is our source, our sustenance and our end. She is Kundalini, the power moving us toward the unity of all life. – Sri Devi, page 112, Oneness with Shiva

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