Mantra moves the psyche. There is a teaching that when you recite the words, if you use the tip of your tongue, different meridians, like constellations on the roof of your mouth, get stimulated and change your biochemistry. Personally, this is a little outside my realm of understanding, but I have seen the power of mantra firsthand. It can totally change the trajectory of your thoughts and in turn, the trajectory of your life.

This meditation is one of a class of meditations that will become well known to the future medical society. Meditation will be used to alleviate all kinds of mental and physical afflictions. But it may be as many as 500 years, however, before the new medical science will understand the effects of this kind of meditation well enough to delineate and measure all its parameters.