Q and A with rishi nityapragya

 Q & A Session with Rishi Nityapragyaji                           

Question) Rishiji, these days everything has become a mere ritual. For example,    when a person dies, the mantras that are chanted - its as if the pandits just    chant without understanding any meaning behind it - neither do we, the common man    know the meaning. So what is the real use of those mantras? Also, in India we do    chant the mantras - what about in other countries, where shlokas are not chanted?    What happens to those souls? 

     Answer) Do you know what happens when we chant the mantras? hmmmm...... See, each    mantra has a specific meaning. There are 7-layers to existence - Body, Breath,    Mind, Intellect, Memory, Ego and Self. Breath links the mind and the body. When we    die, that link is broken - breath disappears and the body is broken away (or    dropped) from the remaining 5 layers. That doesnt mean the remaining 5 layers    cease to exist. They do exist - we may call it soul or consciousness etc.              

All the emotions are felt in the mind. When the body is dropped, mind still feels    everything - for example, it feels the hunger, but it doesnt have any body to    satisfy its hunger. Similarly it feels everything else that it felt when it had    the body - anger, frustration, animosity towards someone etc. Infact, in most    cases, the mind doesnt even know that the body has dropped - so immediately after    someone dies, they say the soul is still around the body.             

When we chant the mantras, each mantra gives an opportunity for the soul to drop    its impressions. So for example the mantra will say "During my life, I had anger    towards my mother. But I want to drop that anger now, because the basis of our    relationship is love. During my life, I had anger towards my father. But I want to    drop that anger now, because I realize the basis of my relationship with my father    is love". And so on...... with every family member, friend etc. This clears the    soul from its current life, and it comes to peace with itself, becomes much more    lighter and is able to go to the next body without carrying any heavy burden from    the previous life.

      Question) So, what happens if mantras are not chanted, or they are not chanted    with proper devotion or feeling? 

     Answer) The soul has to pay for the world that it has created. That is the simple    law of nature. Every shloka in sanskrit is like a vibration that is felt by the    soul and it makes it easy for it to drop all its emotions. The more sadhana, seva,    satsang we do during our lifetime, the more easy it becomes for us.