RamDev reflects on the simultaneous depth and simplicity of mantra, highlighting his own transcendent experiences across devotional practices.

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev dives into:

• Receiving miracles from Hanuman and the sense that all things are already taken care of
• The power and depth of mantra practice, despite its simplicity
• Shifting from mechanical repetition to embodied feeling and heartfelt presence within the mantra
• Allowing mantra practice to soften, open, and color the heart with devotion
• Conventional devotional practice and making a bridge to God
• Entering tantric devotion as a path of unity—becoming one with the deity rather than worshipping from afar
• Becoming the essence of the mantra and awakening the divine energy in our bodies
• Drawing comparisons between tantric devotion and the Buddhist Heart Sutra
• Realizing that it is all one as we transcend through layers of devotion

“You are the essence of the mantra. The mantra is not a tool, a pointer, a technique; it's the full manifestation of the divine. It’s awakening divine energy into your body with each repetition.” –RamDev 

About RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co­author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life ­threatening illness, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

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