Your spiritual name is a personal connection to your soul.
Using and meditating on your name is a way to navigate this earth journey and live a happy, healthy and holy life. Practice this meditation to help open your mind to receiving guidance and deeper insight into the name’s meaning and how to manifest your highest destiny.
This meditation is also called “Soul Talk Meditation”.
Originally taught on July 9, 1982
“This meditation brings deep relaxation, strength, mental clarity and the experience of the soul on the spot. It is soul talk. It enables one to give and keep on giving. Consistent practice can change your entire destiny…”
– Yogi Bhajan
Before you begin your practice, tune-in by chanting the mantra Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo
How to chant the mantra Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo
Sit in Easy Pose with your spine straight. Press your palms together in Prayer Pose at the center of the chest, sides of the thumbs pressed against the sternum. With your eyes closed, focus your concentration at the Third Eye Point located between the eyebrows at the root of the nose, about a half inch under the skin. Inhale deeply and as you exhale chant Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo, on one breath. The sound Dev is chanted a minor third higher than the other sounds. If you cannot chant it all on one breath, take a short breath after Ong Namo. Repeat the mantra three times. The meaning of Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo is: I call on the creative infinite consciousness of the universe. I call on the divine wisdom within me.
The Practice
Posture: Sit in Easy Pose with a straight spine.
Mudra: Hands in Gyan Mudra.
Eyes: Closed or focused on the Third Eye Point.
Breath & Mantra: Inhale deeply and recite the mantra eight times out loud, in a monotone:
Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Jee-o
Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Jee-o
Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Jee-o
Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Jee-o
Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Jee-o
Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Jee-o
Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Jee-o
Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Jee-o
Time
Continue for 31 minutes. To end, inhale deeply, hold, exhale.
Comments:
Human beings are made up of five tattvas, or elements: earth, water, fire, air, and ether. This practice works to balance them, and in time, put them under your command.
Originally, it was taught that honest and regular practice of this meditation can change your entire destiny. By practicing for 31 minutes a day for 6 months, it was said that you can experience the Cosmos before your eyes, and if you chant it for 2-½ hours daily, for 6 months, you can command the five elements.
Work with an appropriate time and duration for you.
This meditation was originally taught on July 9, 1982 and can be found in I Am a Woman.
©The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan