This chanting that we have been doing is a great science of sound for inner purification; for
the purification of the mind. All these things that you are doing here are hundred percent
scientific. This spirituality is a great science, which developed in India thousands of years
ago. These traditions exist even now, although quite a large number of people have forgotten
the reasons.
What is the chaos in the mind? The chaos is of thoughts, contradictory emotions and
desires. These words, which we chant, are mantras. They are more powerful than the thoughts
already running through the brain and they will, some day, push out all that rubbish of
worldly thoughts and bring up permanent peace and happiness. They are charged words,
pregnant with spiritual energy and Divinity. This science of sound is a great science.
In the same way, the sound ‘Om’ is the primordial universal sound. The modern scientists
also say that there was ‘Big bang’ (sound) in the beginning. It was from the sound that
creation developed and the first sound was Om.
It came to my mind to explain why we chant the mantras because in the West this tradition
is not there and people want to know the reasons why they should do it. So, just to tell you –
this chanting has very great logic and scientific reasoning to it. These mantras are devices (for
spiritual development), discovered and developed by great seers in the past.