Mar 12 2024 6 mins
With “Om Namo Narayanaya” God is worshiped in every single being. “Nara” actually means “creature” and “Narayana” means the one who resides in all creatures. Yoga assumes that every person has God within them - without God a person could not exist at all.
“Om Namo Narayanaya” is a mantra for world peace. We can only strengthen peace in the world if we start with ourselves and treat ourselves peacefully. Then we can also show kindness and tolerance towards others and activate the powers of charity, help and commitment. If we always revolve around our own axis, ponder our own issues and judge ourselves for our behavior, our experiences and our actions, we also judge others. It is important to see life as an experience in which we can grow and evolve into our true being.
Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount: “Blessed are the peaceable, for theirs will be the earth.” So if we want to master the world, we need peace. And we also need peace in order to accept ourselves and the world. The principle of Narayana can teach us acceptance. It can teach us to accept our lives, see our experiences as lessons and thereby accept our fate. Everything that happens helps us to move forward on the spiritual path; it first helps us to work on our personality in order to be open to God.