So bring your attention to your heart center as you say, Na Mo. When you’re chanting this word, you want to think of coming from Anahata Chakra, the fourth Chakra. So by it chanting ONG correctly, striking the tongue at the top of the mouth, you’re pulling the energy forward into the front of the brain. It’s a very emotion-based state of mind.Īnd in Kundalini Yoga you’re trying to raise your vibration. So the back of the brain is the more reptilian brain where we’re reactive and in survival mode. It’s also going to bring the energy towards the frontal brain. From the outside of the body, you can most easily find it at the space right between and above your eyebrows, which is your third eye center.Īnd when you hold your tongue to the roof of your mouth as you pronounce the first syllable ONG, it’s going to activate pituitary gland, which is exactly what you want to do in Kundalini Yoga. When you chant this sound, visualize energy at your third eye center.ĭoing it in that way stimulates the hypothalamus, the pineal gland, and then the pituitary gland, which sit at the very center of your brain. ONG means infinite creative energy and you want to say it, this is really important with the tongue hitting the roof of the mouth, the upper palate of the mouth. I’m going to break down the mantra bit by bit so that you can truly tune in and allow the divine flow of energy to begin within you as you chant. When translated from Sanskrit, it means “ I bow to the Creative Wisdom, I bow to the Divine Teacher within.” The complete Adi mantra is ong namo guru dev namo and is used to tune in to higher consciousness at the beginning of every Kundalini yoga class. What is the meaning of Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo? A primal vibration.Īnd when we begin our practice by chanting the complete Adi Mantra three times, we are quite literally tuning in like a tuning fork to the primal vibration of the infinite creative consciousness that drives all of existence. The rhythmic pattern is a vibration that matches the same rhythmic patterns of the mantras. Sound is not something that you can hold with your hand but when you push air forcefully enough, it moves in a rhythmic pattern that our ears hear as sound. Atoms buzz and swirl so fast that our eyes perceive them as solid matter when, in fact, they are just tiny buzzing particles.Īnd sound vibrates too. Energy itself is a sort of vibration and we can see it (and measure) it even at the atomic level. They are sort of like a primal vibration, at the very core of our existence.Įverything in this world has a vibration. It is this state of connectedness that we recognize as Divine Truth, self-knowledge, higher consciousness, or WHATEVER term that describes meditative bliss. It’s like a mantra meditation that connects the mind, body, and spirit as one. The Adi Mantra sets the tone for your yoga practice. So I want to break it down for you here so that you know exactly what you’re chanting the Adi mantra at the beginning of each Kundalini yoga session. It’s an incredibly powerful mantra that helps us connect with and refine the divine flow of infinite creative energy, both in ourselves and the reality around us.īut I was doing Kundalini Yoga for years before anyone ever really explained what this meant or how to do it properly! You can watch Nirvair Khaisa explain the process in this video.Whether you’re just beginning your Kundalini yoga practice or you’ve been a Kundalini practitioner for many years, you’ll notice that every class begins by chanting the Adi mantra, ong namo guru dev namo. The second time they should expand themselves out and be as big as they can and the third time, they should bring these two mental-images together – the outer and inner. Guru Dev Namo calls on the the divine teacher to guide us.Īs Nirvair explains in the video below, the first time the mantra is spoken the learner should feel as though they are a singular / small point in the Universe. Guru means teacher, literally one who brings us from darkness to light. What does ONG NAMO GURU DEV NAMO mean? Ong Namo means to call on our highest consciousness ( the Logos, if you like). The participant inhales deeply through the nose and then upon the exhale participant recites slowly ‘ONG NAMO GURU DEV NAMO’. The mantra begins seated as per above, but with the palms together pressed gently against the chest. I wrote about my yogi Nirvair Khaisa (pictured above) in two other articles here. ‘ Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo‘ is a mantra / technique practiced at the commencement of sessions of Kundalini Yoga.
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