Mahakatha's Meditation Mantras

What would it be like to have a third

eye like Lord Shiva? And though the human

body is destined to be blessed only with two eyes,

what if there was a way to experience and see

through the third eye ourselves?

Let's talk about that and how it mysteriously

connects to an ancient indian ritual. Will, before

I share the mantra of this week with you, so

welcome, dear listener, to yet another brand new

episode of the Mahagatha Meditation Mantras

podcast. I'm your host, Preeti, and this is the

third consecutive week we are dedicating

to Lord Shiva his symbolism

and what we humans can derive from it.

One of the first things you learn about Lord Shiva

and his powers is his third eye.

You learn how this unique feature in the

center of his forehead is the vision that can

perceive things that are otherwise

invisible. The eyes are a way of

screening through a person's

presence, a person's words, a person's

actions, seeing through the outer facade

that exists in this physical world and

being able to understand the intention

and the bare truth that exists

in that soul. This outwardly

vision, this outwardly superpower, is

only half the power of Shiva's third eye,

the ability to look at something and

understand the core of its existence.

Lord Shiva used his third eye to

detect evil, to detect possible

harm, to cut through illusion, and thus

protect all that is good in the universe.

The second half of that power comes

from the fact that the third eye is also

known as the inner eye because

just like it can project outwards and detect

truth and illusion, good intentions and

bad intentions, it can also

project inwards and help us

glance into the code of our own existence,

separate our own truth from our illusions,

our own light from our darkness,

our own good from our own evil.

This inner eye is known to be an energy

chakra, the third eye chakra, or the

ajna chakra, the wheel of

tremendous, untamed,

powerful, continuous energy

that flows to us and through us,

making our lives possible. And

like the other chakras in our body, if the

third eye energy is either in

overflow or is blocked, we will

experience either an overwhelm of

detachment from this physical world,

or we would be unable to tell truth from

illusion, and we might get carried away from our

path of good to the path of

evil without even knowing it. The

third eye is the light through which we

look inside. Now I bring you back to the question I

asked at the beginning of this episode. What

would it be like to have Shiva's third

eye right here in the center

of our forehead? What would it be like

to have that eye ready to open and guide

us towards truth, towards what is good,

and help us stay on the path of our life

purpose. What would it be like if we

could look at something and understand it

instead of reacting to it and within

us? What would it be like to have this

third eye tell us bluntly,

clearly and honestly,

what part of our intentions and thoughts and beliefs are

good? What part of it serves our intention

and our path? And what part of it

doesn't? We may not have Shiva's

third eye, but what if we had a way to screen

our beliefs, our intentions, our

dreams, our endless train of everyday

thoughts that keep repeating themselves? What if we could

screen these thoughts so that one by one,

everything that doesn't serve us or leads

us astray will just fall through?

And the only thoughts and beliefs and intentions that remain

within us are pure? If this could

happen, my dear listener, it would completely

change your life, wouldn't it? It

would completely change the way you think, the way you speak,

the way you act, the way you hold

yourself, the way you believe in yourself,

the dreams that you dare to pursue, and your attitude

towards the obstacles that stand in between.

Having this ability to activate

our inner divine awareness, our ability

to keep our third eye open, would

be the best gift that we can receive

and use in our lives. And while

tools like meditation can help us activate a

fraction of that power within us,

that would perhaps be the greatest wish we could

have for ourselves.

My prayer for you would be, may

your inner eye, your third eye,

always be open for you, ready

to guide you and protect you and keep you

away from everything that is evil or

harmful or unfavorable.

May your third eye, your ajna

chakra, always be in

balance. May you at all times be

aware of your own inner light and your

darkness, your own inner truth and your illusions,

your own inner good and

evil. That would be my

greatest wish for you. Especially if you are going through a

very challenging time, if you're going through a lot of struggles in

different aspects of your life, whether it is financial,

personal, professional, I would wish for

you to harness the power of your third

eye. And remember, I hinted about this

ancient indian tradition that is tied to

the third eye. This tradition and

its significance is absolutely beautiful

because it is a ritual that literally

symbolizes my prayer for you.

And this ritual is the application of

a tilak or a sacred dot

or line on the forehead, right between

the eyes. You must have seen this or

experienced this in hindu tradition,

that on important occasions or right before

stepping out for something important, an

elder typically an elder in the family will

apply a fragrant paste

on your forehead. It could either be the red vermilion

paste or it could be the very soothing

sandalwood paste. Someone would typically

take this paste between their fingers and

apply it on the spot that is right above and in the middle

of both your eyes on your forehead, either as a

dot or as a long vertical or horizontal

line. Guess what this mark stands

for? Yes, this is a way of

marking your third eye. This is a way of

reminding you of your third eye, of your inner eye

that sees all. And it is a reminder for

you of that fraction of power that you

derive from Lord Shiva. When someone

applies this tilak for you, they are praying

for your third eye to be activated and for

your inner light to shine through it and destroy any

obstacles that come in the way of your

purpose. Right from the mothers

of gods in stories of mythology, to

the mothers or gurus of kings in

indian history, or to someone who visits a

temple on a special occasion, even

down to the little child that is about to

go to school for a very important exam,

everyone is lovingly given this

symbolic gift of Atilak, this

wonderful reminder of one's own power.

Isn't that beautiful? Speaking of such powerful

symbolism and speaking of one's own inner light,

I would now like to introduce to you the mantras

of this week. This is a chant that

calls Shiva's name, referring to

him as the one with three eyes.

Shiva is known by thousands of names

and typically his names are either chanted

in 108 or 1008 or

more increments like these, and this one

chant is based on one such powerful

name dedicated to his eyes.

The mantra is the Soma Suryagni

Lochana mantra. The

soma surya agni

Lochana. The mantra equates the

two seeing eyes of Lord Shiva as the

moon as the sun and the

third eye as fire. It is a

simple mantra to meditate with, a simple

mantra to chant, and if you can practice

it a few times every day, especially if you're

going through a difficult time, and as you practice,

if you can close your eyes and visualize

your own inner eye being activated,

you might just open your eyes to a

slightly different, slightly more

enlightened version of you. If you don't have

this mantra with you already, you can avail this mantra

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in the description of this episode. Try this mantras

and tell me how it works for you. You can either write to

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this is me on air, thanking you immensely for

your love and listenership. With that in mind, dear

listener, we come to the end of this episode. I hope you

enjoyed it. I hope that since we've invoked the name of

Shiva the rest of your day, the rest of your week may

be full of light and joy and

peace. Now I'm off to continue

preparing some wonderful Mahashivratri surprises for

you, dear listener. So I will return next week

with a brand new theme and mantras just for

you. In the meantime, stay blessed.