5 Kundalini Yoga Mantras to Change Your Life

Three years ago I was not happy with what I was. I was in the dark days of my soul, as some call this period of confusion and forgetfulness. That is why I was sent Kundalini yoga one day…to help me see and remember.

There is no perfect life – sometimes it is the worst things that open up opportunity for you, deliver you to freedom, from darkness to light. We are here to become conscious and free, aren’t we? And in our freedom we are to serve other beings. To do that we have to get in touch with our essence, our true nature. It is when we are in touch with something larger than this body we understand that we are on the divine path having a sacred experience every day with everyone.

Back then in June 2008 I made a move to a new beautiful place. And one morning I switched on a satellite channel. It was the day when my life was to change forever.

I landed into Kundalini yoga with Maya Fiennes straight away. It was something I did not know much about, if anything at all. Kundalini energy. Chakras. Vibration. Guru Dev. But it sounded so familiar and I knew it – it was me. Don’t ask me how – I just knew it in the micro of a micro second.

I was plugged into something I always wanted. My soul was happy, my body obeyed and bowed. I would wake up every morning to have a sessions with Maya Fiennes for one year. Every morning would be an amazing encounter with a fairy lady in white gowns and enchanting transcendental music.

Now when people ask me questions as to how it all started for me and how I could change from such a rational and left-side minded girl into a yogi, I just reply – it took some effort and I loved it. Yoga flooded my life with amazing sounds, mantras, places and energies and teachers I never heard of.

I did not know about the mantras and their potency beyond human imagination. But they changed my life. Their effects rippled through my physical, mental and spiritual world for very long time.

A day started with Kundalini yoga seemed to be so magical. Here is what I felt and experienced with 5 Kundalini yoga mantras that changed my life.

1) The Sa Ta Na Ma meditation enabled me to see and hear things beyond the physical world, remember dreams, and silence the mind. Somehow when I did it the first thing in the morning the whole day seemed to be integrated and my body, mind and spirit felt united. I would feel quite the opposite on the days when I would not do it.

2) The Laya mantra gave me vitality and endurance throughout the day. I would feel that I had somehow all the energy I needed to do what was required of me. I felt supported in a very special way. Ek Ong Kar opens the solar plexus and charges the solar centre above the navel. It connects with the cosmic energy. Chanting this mantra will liberate you from the cycle of time and karma. It awakens the divine within. It's like a key, which has the 'code' for direct contact with the Creator. It set me free to do what I always wanted to. I started going to dance classes, doing more social work and meeting new people with open heart.

3) Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo would change any rajas or tamas moods into sattvic from the first hours of my awakening. Who am I? Why am I stuck here? Do I have a choice? What is my path? Ong Namo – that it my name! I felt the purpose. I felt that I was needed. Like each one of us.

4) Wahe Guru Wahe Jio helped me to see clearer that what I was doing day in and day out was not my purpose, and that I was not serving other people. I realized that my purpose lay elsewhere. So I continuously returned to Kundlaini yoga to tune in with my inner guru asking it daily to guide me, help me find the right people and the right place. And so I did. Eventually I came to say goodbye to my self-destruction and say - Hello New Olga. Go Olga! With this mantra I felt that I came straight to the source and was able to relax in the flow of a greatly expanded energy.

5) Ra Ma Da Sa Sa Se So Hung would heal me and take me deep. I realized that I started to learn to accept the challenges with ease, open heart and attitude of joy. I would just say like, “Yes, bring it on!” Joyfully I will take and face everything that has to come my way. Realising that my life is the biggest gift that is reveals such a great potential for the healing of body, mind and spirit. Everything that happens is sent to me to help me become stronger and better. So I thank for all the lessons and encounters.

I got out of those dark days. I woke up on the shiny and sunny side of it. Alert, confident and determined to leave the old ways of living and start being and living a life full of energy and give that to others.

I now teach yoga. I enjoy it immensely. I write as I discovered my human talent (as one of the many that Gurmukh mentions). Wahe Guru! Have the greatest journey of your lives with Kundalini yoga. Let it open the gates of the sacred within you for you and for others in your life.

By Olga Tarabashkina