Why does the sound of mantras produce purification whereas other sound doesn’t?
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so what is the scientific mechanism by which chanting leads to purification and why are we holding the holy name all of us are suffering from what could be called as spiritual amnesia spiritual amnesia means we have forgotten our spiritual identity and when we have forgotten our spiritual identity you know, let’s say there is a king’s son, a prince who is going in a car and the car makes an accident and he falls off a hill station and he falls out of the car deep down into a valley and somehow he falls on a sand dune and it was a small road break but he just gets a blow on the head and he comes back to consciousness he has forgotten who he is he has forgotten who he is and therefore he has to be harassed so when he comes back to consciousness the tribals who are living in that valley they give him an identity, they give him a role he starts living over there his father comes back and when the father sees the son oh my dear son who are you so what does the father do at that time one of the consistent or important ways of curing amnesia is they call it stimuli therapy show the person the things important in the previous life do you remember this watch do you remember this pen do you remember this coat do you remember this cap yeah I remember oh that is my cap isn’t it gradually the memory starts awakening now that same memory will not awaken if some other cap is shown because that other cap doesn’t have a correlation with the person’s earlier life so similarly we as souls have an eternal relationship with Krishna and currently we have forgotten that relationship so when we chant the holy names, when the whole process of bhakti yoga essentially is stimuli therapy we are exposing ourselves to spiritual stimuli and the more we expose our consciousness to spiritual stimuli, the more our spiritual memory becomes activated and that is how the love that is natural from the soul becomes activated by the exposure to the stimuli about Krishna the father, son has love for the father but the memory is obscure and stimuli awaken the appropriate stimuli awaken the memory and awaken the affection of the father similarly the bhakti stimuli centered on the holy name stimulate our spiritual remembrance of Krishna and they thus awaken devotion to Krishna they awaken, they purify us in the sense that we start seeing yes actually loving Krishna is a far better way to happiness than seeking pleasure in sense objects that’s how our love becomes redirected towards Krishna, that’s how we become purified