Authentic mantras are easily learned, and when used properly have the power to resonate deeply within your subtle nerves — called nadis.

Certain special top-tier kavach mantras (“Armor” mantras) work to cleanse, unblock and energize the entire electric network that connects your body, mind, and heart.

With OJAYA, we use an ancient, authentic kavach mantra known as the “Mantra of Heroes.” Silent mindfulness of this most powerful mantra creates a calming resonance that penetrates deep into your awareness to enliven dynamic energies within you … which effortlessly brings peace, serenity, awakening, and profound strength to your consciousness.

… Would you really like to while away your precious time with English “mantras” — and repeat similar mental “notes” — such as “Feel my feet, feel my feet …” ?

Or would you rather devote 10-20 minutes to experience the power of the authentic OJAYA Deep Meditation “Mantra of Heroes” — which gently draws you inwards — to your own soothing, quiet depths of pure, blissful mindfulness … ?

My heart hurts when I read that “Feel my feet” could ever be called a mantra, yet I am long aware that much authentic knowledge is long-lost everywhere — both in the marketplace and in popular, well-respected mindfulness schools.

Please read the above statement again — it’s worth a second look. (We should emblazon this on a t-shirt and spread the word everywhere!)

In stark contrast to modern practices, the ancient technique of OJAYA is effortless mindfulness.

Here’s what we recommend at our OJAYA Dharma Sangha meditation school — for whenever you feel tired and worn out:

1. Take a pillow and go rest. Or …

2. Sit for 10-20 minutes of OJAYA Deep Meditation, where you effortlessly settle deep within yourself to a peaceful state of deep rest. In this quiet stillness, your level of rest becomes far deeper than your sleep at night. Known as a state of samadhi in yoga circles, you respose blissfully in your own pure, mindful awareness.

When you open your eyes, you feel new, alive — energized and refreshed — ready to get out there and do something creative.

1. The solution for fatigue is rest.

2. Deep rest rejuvenates you with dynamic energy.

3. All your mental suggestions, all this coaxing yourself to become more mindful, all this “letting go” of fatigue, and all your good intentions will never give you the rest you require — or give you the profound awakening that comes from the blissful rest of OJAYA Pure Mindfulness.

I would invite you to compare for yourself, and experience how 10-20 minutes of OJAYA recharges your mind and body — and quickly empowers you with serene energy.

Simple.

Throughout this book, I note a recurring theme of “coaxing” your mind to behave a certain way.

For example, to rid yourself of anxiety (page 116), you are told to repeat these phrases …

So … let’s see …

To relieve anxiety, you are advised to offer verbal instructions — directed to your mind — to coax it into a state of peace and serenity …

Mindful teachers today constantly advise their students to repeat these kinds of phrases. This sort of coaxing the mind to be calm — indeed, this very method — is pretty much universal among all mindfulness schools these days. It’s taught everywhere.

But this is a tell-tale sign that the knowledge of deep mindful meditation has been lost in these schools … because …

According to the ancient OJAYA knowledge, anxiety is the natural outcome when the harmony of your consciousness has become disturbed. Like the grating sounds of an orchestra that is out of tune, you will naturally feel tension and strain whenever your inner harmony is broken.

No amount of coaxing or affirmations will restore this harmony at a deep level.

Virtually all modern mindful techniques today want you to merely observe and accept anxiety. This is a deep dilution of the ancient ways of mindful practice, and has resulted in a poverty of today’s understanding of classic mindful methods.

Rather than merely observe and accept anxiety, we dissolve and resolve anxiety with pure, deep mantra mindfulness meditation.

Mere observation and acceptance are only a superficial action and attitude — on the surface levels of the mind — whereas the authentic ancient techniques of mindful meditation work to probe the depths of consciousness to release the very cause of the anxiety.

The quickest way to wrestle with anxiety is — repeat English phrases to console yourself, such as, “May my mind be at ease … May my mind be at ease.”

The quickest way to resolve anxiety is — with deep mantra meditation.

If you will take a little time to learn for yourself, you will experience how OJAYA Deep Meditation is the fastest way to restore harmony, recharge your energies and empower yourself with deep serenity.

Again, it’s simple.

Throughout the world, mindfulness is taught in similar ways to what we find in this book.

Rather than commenting on all 75 of these “essential meditations,” let’s get straight to the core …

All the “meditations” in this book are what we would call mindful exercises. They are all more or less working on psychological levels of the mind, as one tries to see and understand that “you are not your emotions,” etc.

Surely some of these suggested practices carry value which has proved helpful to certain people. But OJAYA goes far beyond the psychological levels of your mind — a deeply penetrating technique that bestows true depth of peace and inner strength …

With constant engagement in words, phrases, observations, mental gymnastics and emotional assessments, these sorts of mindful practices could never qualify as classic deep meditation.

Moreover …

Pure mindfulness is known in advanced yoga circles as pure consciousness, pure awareness, or samadhi. These are the supremely blissful states of peace, rest, and deep serenity where the light of mindful awareness shines calmly and effortlessly, like a candle that does not flicker.

These sublime experiences are rarely — if ever — reported with the types of mindful practices suggested in this book. Yet they are commonplace with easy practice of OJAYA Deep Meditation.

With daily dips into the soothing rest and relaxation of pure mindfulness, the deeper levels of your consciousness begin to wake up. New energy emerges within you, along with deeper and newer revelations of consciousness.

A true awakening occurs when pure mindfulness dawns in you 24 hours in a day. Even during your sleep, an effortless and deeply restful mindful awareness illuminates your consciousness all through the night, like a calm flame that does not flicker.

Experiences of people everywhere demonstrate that this deeply serene level of awakening is not achieved by the superficial mindful methods taught in this book or by similar practices taught in mindful schools everywhere.

For these higher attainments, you must learn to relinquish all your efforts and go deep within yourself.

This is the way of OJAYA Deep Meditation.

Mindful practices today are often “modernized” versions of methods derived from or inspired by Buddha’s teachings — which are then meticulously crafted for popular consumption to ensure no trace remains of any “Buddhist overtones.”

On the other hand, many schools claim to teach the authentic methods from Buddhist traditions.

Yet even the Dalai Lama himself is humbly on record stating that he knows of no one — not even himself — who he could consider as “enlightened.”

With countless monks who have practiced mindfulness for decades — and with endless mindful retreats the world over — how could this be?

We should keep in mind that Buddha did not actually teach generic “mindfulness.” People often forget that his central teachings revolved around his techniques of deep meditation, and an aspect of this is right mindfulness.

Buddha’s original teachings promised a deep awakening for many people — and they worked. But his methods have come down to us through the mists of time, changed and altered by countless generations, and now adapted in many ways for modern people in modern times.

However, these adaptations have also weakened and diluted the original techniques.

True mindful meditation should lead you deep within to the experience of blissful, pure mindfulness. True mindful meditation should lead you to a deeper and deeper awakening. If this is not happening for you, we must question the value and authenticity of the practice.

On the OJAYA Deep Meditation Course, you will experience that right mindfulness is exquisitely deep, blissful, effortless awareness. But there are long-lost secrets to this sublime art of deep meditation that you need to rediscover — which you will cherish forever.

These secrets are missing in virtually ALL mindfulness schools today, which we will explain and show you clearly on the OJAYA Deep Meditation Course.

So … how and why did the ancient techniques become diluted or lost over the centuries?

Let us close our discussion with this short video …

See more reasons . . .