Here we are again in the midst of the political season, with campaign commercials flying back and forth but no solutions in sight to our problems.  Many of us are completely frustrated with the Congress, and a recent  poll said 82% of us are disgusted with them, knowing that most of our senators and congress members do not represent us but only their campaign contributors. 

The worldwide "recession" has not abated, and nobody from the banks, mortgage companies or Wall Street have been prosecuted for pulling our economy down by their greed.  The LIBOR scam does not seem to be producing any prosecutions either. 

So what can we do about all this?  The answer is that those in power behind the scenes are indeed the most evil sort of persons, who do not care at all about any of the consequences to us of their actions.  But we can provide them a very difficult time by our chanting.  The great demons/rakshas of the Mahabharata and Devi Mahatmyam were eliminated by avatars and shaktis using "mantra arrows," vach/speech with power.  While none of us are avatars or devis, collectively we have huge power, if we commit to use it.

One example of the effect of chanting on negative energy being successful is the project sponsored by the Maharishi MaheshYogi the 1980s or 1990s in sending in groups of chanters to high crime areas in cities like Atlanta.  After some weeks/months of the group chanting, the official crime statistics went down, and there was no other change going on in the area to have had the effect. 

Simply put, if we chant the negativity dissolving mantras together, we change the world.  You will find a very effective collection of these mantras, which work in synergy when chanted together, on the CD, Mantra Therapy for Restoration of Dharma & Peace, recorded by Namadeva Acharya.  It is available at sanskritmantra.com 

So to change the outer and inner systems which are negatively controlling the circumstances of our lives (employment issues, housing issues, etc.), let us take the decision to chant these mantras daily with Namadeva Acharya until we all get relief.  

We can do this daily by chanting each mantra only once, but with much more power if we chant each one for 54 or 108 repetitions.   Choose a number of repetitions that you can comfortably do daily, whether 1, 2, 3, 10, 54 or 108, of each mantra on an ongoing basis.  We don't have to do them at the same time each day for the energy to be strong. 

No one can defeat the positive energy we generate by our chanting if we chant together daily, mentally linking with our fellow chanters.  

I look forward to the positive changes we will be making with our spiritual discipline.    

Bharata/Bill Barry, a Certified Priest who lives in Massachusetts, is available for pujas and yajnas in his area. Please contact him at bill.barry@wildblue.net 

Parvati/Pat Murphy J has been certified by Sanatana Dharma Satsang as a Pujari.  She is available for pujas and yajnas in Los Angeles area.  Please contact her at patmurphyj@sbcglobal.net