Acharya Peter Wilberg's Bulletin

Listening to the chanting of the Mahamantra we can find in it ever new depths and feel its meaning in ever new ways….

The Ocean Om Namah Shivaya:

OM – the solid, rock-bottom of our soul’s ocean, where we can come to rest, not despite but even through those 'rock-bottom' states of deepest weakness, weariness, sickness or depression - which take us ever further down into the abyss until we reach that ultimate soul ground of our being.

NAMAH – all the strange and wondrous life-forms that appear to grow and swim at in the ocean of our inner soul life. All that occurs in our outer life of soul, and all that simply flows as inner currents of feeling through and within our soul’s body, colouring - now more darkly and heavily, now more lightly and brightly - its felt tone and texture.

SHIVAYA – that COMMON all-surrounding soul ocean in which we know both ourselves and each other to dwell, and which nourishes and forms all souls. The secret Fire of Life that is also hidden within every particle of that great Soul Ocean, causing its waters to rise up as aethers to the shining sources of that Fire in the heavens - to 'Shivaloka'.