________________
6. Effect of Shri Navakara Mahamantra
Churning is not possible in a shallow utensil; just the same way Shri Navakara cannot be chanted in just superficial way.
The chanting is as much concerned with concentration as with serenity. Just as the seed is to be sown in the ground, every letter of Navakara should be installed in the Pranas with lofty feelings.
The liveliness in the letters reveals itself thanks to the association with the Pranas; the spirits therefore of the chanting individual get more brightened and lean towards the devotion of noble souls who have gained a brightened soul.
The chanting of the Navakara undertook mechanically keeps the Jiva deprived of the unique powers that it can yield.
In the Navakara are installed the five Parameshthis. It would indeed be a matter of sorrow if a person knows this and still in his reverence there is formality and mechanical utterance.
Other worldly matters should not be permitted to overtake the mind at the time of their remembrance and it would be indeed a cowardice if we tolerate this.
Submit yourself, in all inner feeling, to them by constant remembrance and you have great benefit. Devotional remembrance and submission to anything else will not yield even an atom of that reward.
Remember the five Parameshthis in all inner delight of the heart and you go nearer to the Atma, and next your heart gets involved into activities to the liking of the inner
30
