“These names. the very fact that they don’t really mean anything specific in the conceptual mind level is actually where the power of the chant comes from.“These chants comes from a place in your own being that is your true nature. It’s a place that is deeper than your thinking mind.
“Chanting is a mystical yogic practice. And the mystical part of it is that we are chanting these names.
“What Ram Dass and I do more than anything is - what we share with people is our faith.
“There is that place within us that can survive, grow and flourish no matter what comes at us. This is what chanting is about.
“When we chant together, we get a couple of hours of feeling some other quality, some other possibility that you can do anything that you want to do. This is devotional. There are no rules.
“We are tricking ourselves to fall in love with ourselves by thinking that we are loving something outside of ourselves. That’s because psychologically we do not know how to be good to ourselves. We do not know how to love ourselves, it looks like it is outside our selves. But it only looks that way.
These are sound syllables that will help the mind calm down and pull you out of any anxieties or worries or business in your day and in your daily life.
It helps you understand that the script is not written. That the ending is not necessarily a sad ending. That the happiness is within us.
