Initially, meditation is to control the mind, because normally we are slaves to his slightest wishes, desires, whims or thoughts. Once an idea touches us, we seek to accomplish immediately. However, the Bhagavad-gita (6.6) tells us that the practitioner of meditation must learn to control his mind: "From one who has mastered the mind is the best friend, but that failed in the enterprise it becomes the worst enemy. "
The materialistic mind seeks to enjoy life by using the senses to taste the joys and material relations. It is full of innumerable projects focused on sensory satisfaction and its unstable nature, he constantly wanders a sense object to another. So he vacillates between the desire for some material gain and born affliction for any loss or frustration.
Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita (2.66): "Being unaware of his spiritual identity can neither control his mind or confirm his intelligence and how then he would know the serenity And how, without it, could? -it taste happiness? "the chanting Hare Krishna allows us to control the mind instead of letting it control us.
The Sanskrit word mantra comes mana which means "mental" and tra, which means "liberation". So the mantra is a transcendental sound vibration that has the effect of freeing the mind from its packaging material.
Srila Prabhupada (Indian spiritual teacher) said in his commentary on the Srimad-Bhagavatam: "Our entanglement in the material originates non-spiritual vibrations." Every day we hear material sounds broadcast radio and television, or our relatives and friends, and we act accordingly. But as stressed Srila Prabhupada: ".. The sound also exists in the absolute world Spiritual life begins when we come in contact" When we control the mind by fixing the vibration of the Hare Krishna mantra, he immediately calms . Just as music has the gift to tame certain beasts, spiritual sounds of mantra calm the restless mind. The Hare Krishna mantra, invested with supreme energy of God, has the power to alleviate any mental disturbance. Like the calm waters of a crystal clear lake, perceptions of undisturbed by the waves of material desire will prove mental pure and clear. The mind in its purity reflect like a mirror dust, unaltered image of reality, allowing us to go beyond appearances to capture the essence of all life experiences.