Mahakatha's Meditation Mantras

You look at the world and you ask the question, how to be

happy? And there'll be millions to advise

you. A lot of them will give you 3 steps

or a 7-day challenge or a 21-day workbook

or hand you scriptures and books that talk about

beliefs and formulas to be happy.

Everybody can help you on how to be happy,

but what about how to be sad? Let's

talk about that in today's episode before I introduce you to

today's mantra. Namaste, and welcome

back to yet another episode of the Mahakatha

Meditation mantras podcast. I'm your host,

Preeti. And today, we're talking about sorrow.

I know it's not a very catchy topic. Sorrow.

I know it won't gather a crowd like joy

can. But my question to you today is

this, is sorrow something we

overcome to reach joy? Or does it

maybe have a deeper purpose?

On some level, you and I know that sorrow has a

purpose in our lives. We know that. We

know this through our own experience in life. We know this

through stories that we have read and watched and

heard that beautifully depict how

sorrow was at the center of some of the most pivotal

moments in the story of a human being.

And yet, in today's world that wants you to simply

echo positivity, that demands you to be positive,

or else, you risk being labeled as

whiny, as complaining, as

ungrateful, or as simply a negative person.

A world that wants you to simply cheer up.

Take a few deep breaths and do a few exercises and

suddenly feel amazing. This is a world

that has forgotten how to be sad.

And because we live in this world, we now see sorrow

as something that just needs to be overcome,

rather than something that needs to be

experienced. And so today's episode is

just a gentle reminder that sorrow

is meant to be experienced too.

There is still a lot of healing power in having a good

cry, whether it is at the end of an emotional movie,

or whether it is when you are by yourself thinking of things

and remembering people that you are grieving for.

Today's episode is a reminder that joy and

sorrow come from the same place and

deserve the same amount of kindness and

attention and patience. There

is no urgency to overcome sorrow.

Because in trying to rush away from it, you might

miss the most pivotal chapters, the

most pivotal lessons of your life.

I want to remind you that it is alright to be

alone in your sorrow as well. If you feel

like there's nobody else you can speak to about your

sorrows, then I want you to know that it is possible

to sit down with your sorrow by yourself

and still with the wisdom of your own mind,

heal your sorrow. For that, you just

have to learn to be comfortable with your own solitude.

Comfortable with not rushing towards things in

taking things slow. Because in this

slowness and in this solitude, wonderful

healings happen. Speaking of joy and

sorrow, I bring you one of the most

beautiful mantras to help you Balance

your emotions and sit down with the sorrow, like

I said, without fear, without judgment,

and with patience and courage. The mantra that

will help you breathe through your sorrow and

to make room for healing. That mantra

is the simple So Hum mantra.

So Hum is a

chant that is created to mimic the sounds

of our breath. 'So' depicts the

sound and process of our inhalation, and 'Hum'

depicts the soft and slow flowing out

of our breath. And if we can

practice the slowness and the calmness

of 'So Hum', especially in our

bouts of sorrow, then we can teach ourselves to make

peace with our sorrows and to experience them

and marvel at them just as

we marvel at our joys. If you

haven't meditated with the So Hum mantra yet, then

the chant is available to you at a

30% discount. Simply use the code mentioned in

the description below. And try sitting down

with this mantra and surrendering your sorrow,

your grief to it. The world and

all its rush and all its urgency can wait

for those precious few minutes as you

peacefully meet your sorrow. Your sorrow

is important. Your sorrow does

have a role to play and to etch it

deeper into your mind. I'm gonna leave you with

a few sentences from one of the most beautiful

passages ever written on joy and sorrow,

written by the great Lebanese-American poet

and philosopher, Khalil Gibran. He

says, your joy is your sorrow

unmasked. Your joy

is your sorrow unmasked.

And the same well from which your laughter rises

was oftentimes filled with your tears.

And how else can it be? The deeper

that sorrow carves into your being,

the more joy you can contain.

The deeper that sorrow carves into

your being, The more joy

you can contain. And these last

few lines may sound a bit philosophical,

but I want you to think about them the entire week.

And even if you can extract 2%

of what it is trying to say, you will see your

joys and your sorrows in a completely

new light. He says, when you are

joyous, look deep into your heart,

and you will find It is only that which has

given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

And when you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,

and you shall see that in truth, you

are weeping for that which has been your

delight. I hope you think

about these lines all week long, and I

hope you come to the realization of how joy and

sorrow come from the same origin,

the same source, and that you are not meant

to bulldoze over your sorrow

or defeat it. You are meant to fully

experience it so that it may heal

you. On that note, dear listener,

we come to the end of this episode. Thank you so much for

tuning in today and sticking around till the end while we

spoke about a rather unpopular topic.

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Have a beautiful rest of the week, And I will see you

again in the next episode. Stay blessed.