shyammonk

Coming back each time from arguments inside.
One sees that arguments are from feeling of incapability when the problems assume untrue reality. One feels not big enough against the problems when they loom there out there engrossing one's whole world.
Then one just leaves it and comes back, knowing the assumptions are not real as they seem.
the thoughts that seep out like algae and blue splashes and banyan trees and tentacles around and everywhere, making a whole hostile world – do not exist so in reality

Chanting is useful because it is something really solid to come back. Chanting needs your attention to execute without missing. When chanting loud one hears ones voice like a remembrance of where ears are – reminds one of physical boundaries. Sound is something that mind can hold on to. Then there is the physical motion of one's mouth. A solid something to note and snap back to when one is floating out into becoming more than body, bigger than one really physically is. Tangible enough. Even looks like a big strong ally when one feels weak alone before the problems.

There is a very constant subtle irritation that occurs from our need to be bigger than what one is. A need that comes from the feeling that one is not enough – big enough, correct enough, clever or capable enough. Not immortal enough(!). Almost like pushing to the walls when the well furnished big suite is all yours to rest and relax and move around. And subtlety may not be possible when the breath is pushed to the upper extreme. Seth Godin on subtlety.

"Neshi balasyedi chared adharma" – whatever you do with the feeling of incapability is adharma. The sanskrit statement from Mahabharatha, interpreted to this better meaning in Bharathaparyadanam by Kuttikrishnamaarar.

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