Music and Mantras

On May 17, 2022, I was in a conversation with a Swami who is deceased. This person began a Vaishnava religious sect in the Western countries. He was staying astrally at Yogeshwarananda’s astral place. He went there to avoid contact with his deceased disciples who hound him down in the astral world because of the failure his process to give them a divine life after death of their physical forms.

He said this to me, “I am staying here because it is the only place where I can avoid those people, my former disciples. How was I to know that the process would not work to give the results intended? I was told by my guru that it would work and that is what I said to others. It is not my fault except that I could not check it. I could not die and then find out until my body actually died.

“Here no one will come to me because they feel that the guru here is an impersonalist mayavadi, just as I explained to them and taught. After death, if you owe someone anything, then when that person is deceased, that offended person hunts you down and demands compensation or tries to inflict some harm to you.”

Two days before this happened, I met this Swami in a different place while I did a session of bhastrika pranayama breath infusion. By interspacing his subtle body into mind and mimicking whatever I did, he learned the practice. After that session, he followed me to a place where I meditated. During the meditation, he interrupted because in his mind there was music playing.

He wanted to ask me about it. At that time because of the request energy, I became aware of the music which played in his mind. It was a song composed by George Harrison, a British musician who is now deceased. The song was ‘While my Guitar Gently Weeps’.

I said to the Swami, “Why do you sing that song? For this meditation no music or image should occur in the mind.”

He replied, “That is the problem where this song continues to play in the mind. I heard it when I associated with George Harrison. I am amazed how my mind recorded that song and plays it. I did some research about this. My conclusion is that the idea of using a mantra is fine but if it is combined with music, it is likely that the music will overpower the mind and the mantra’s effect will be diminished.

“George was involved to produce the music for our main deity greeting artik mantras. I am in his association regularly in an astral place, The thing is that sometimes I find myself with him and others as they play popular music.

Once when he played his song, ‘While my Guitar Gently Weeps,’I found that I was attracted to the song and could not stop following the music for it. I then decided to test myself to see how music affects the psyche. I listened to his group in the astral world. They sang some songs he produced for my institution. I realized that my mind was more involved with the music than it was with the Sanskrit words. The mind enjoyed the rhythm of the music about 95% of attention. The remaining 5% was for the mantras. Please give a method for ceasing this in the mind.”

I replied to him, “Use om namo shivaya. Use that in the mind when you are in it with all doors closed. If you do that it will usher you to naad sound resonance. Cling to naad. If, however, you are in a situation where you do not hear naad and if the sound of the song continues after you desire not to listen to it, emphatically chant om namo shivaya in the mind and resist the undesirable sound. Do this repeatedly until naad becomes available. Then cling to naad.”

Special Note:

One song which George Harrison produced is on the album which has the Govindam Adi Purusham mantras. This can be heard on the Radha Krsna Temple LP album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3fDKGjJQSs&t=37s