We Can Only Know The Holy Name Through Inner Experience

The baijis teach spirituality, not religious practices. What is the proof of this?

It is in their teaching of the Holy Name. That we should discover it inside ourselves, and always keep it in mind because it brings lasting peace.

But what is the Holy Name?

Is it God? Rama? Spirit? The Universe? Om?

The answer, actually, cannot be spoken in words of English, Hindi, Gujarati, or even Sanskrit. 

Nonetheless, it is inside of us.

It's the language of the connection we have with the Infinite. It is most easily realized when we meditate, because we are putting all thoughts aside and communing with the All.

It's a language of sorts, but there are no words. We are like a drop of rainwater that falls into the ocean - there are no words to describe it. 

There is only the experience. 

Some might say this is a benefit of being separate, that we get to have this uniting experience, this communion.

But no one can tell us how to achieve it. They can't give us a pill, they can't trick us, or force it. 

We have to discover it for ourselves.

It may help to know that our individual soul is One with the larger Universal Soul - that the separation is an illusion - then we are simply realizing the connection that is already there, from which our ego normally keeps us separate. 

So when we let our mind quiet, the ego fades, and we can have this Self-realization.

When we do this, a miracle happens:

Half an ounce of this kind of meditation reduces a ton of sins to ashes. We can clean all the detritus of the mind in a heartbeat. We can rid ourselves of "the accumulated karma of a thousand actions." 

We just have to experience it for ourselves, and keep experiencing it.

That is why the baijis encourage us to concentrate our mind on the Holy Name within: when we work, when we play, when we meditate, and every moment we can remember to.