The Magical Power of Prayer and Chanting: My Personal Experience

 

I had just shifted to a new city and was trying to adjust to the demands of my new work environment. With concern for my health taking a back seat, sickness soon came knocking at my door, in the form of unrelenting high fever, cold and a really bad cough. Medications had failed to show any effects.

With no friends to speak of in this new environment, I was all by myself. Thanks to the values instilled by my dad, I have always believed myself to be a tough man. However on that chilly January night, I finally gave in! It felt like I couldn’t take this physical pain and this mental agony any longer. With the pillow as my audience, I started sobbing.

As helpless I felt, I started remembering my beloved, Lord Shiva. I started complaining, why was he putting me through all this. With tears, still flowing down my cheeks, I closed my eyes and started praying to Shiva, as a child begs to his mother.

Since my mind was still overwhelmed with negative thoughts, I put on a tape of Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra and started chanting along. Disturbed as I was, I was trying my best to focus on correctly uttering each word of the intricate mantra. Gradually, I started feeling lighter, as if a big stone had been removed off my chest.

With my eyes still closed, I continued chanting along. Soon I started feeling a lightness I had never felt before, as if I was here but not in the body. I don’t know how far into the chanting I had gone, before I felt as if I had lost consciousness of the body. I don’t remember, how long I stayed in that state, before falling into a deep sleep.

The next day when I woke up, the fever had all but gone and the cold and cough soon dissipated within the next two days.

 

Har Har Mahadev !