mantra meditation (2)

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My name is Nimai Sharma, a devotee pursuing my Master’s thesis at Erasmus University Rotterdam. My research investigates how mantra meditation affects problem-solving abilities. Your daily chanting practice is invaluable in demonstrating the scientific benefits of our spiritual traditions.

This thesis topic stems from my own experience balancing spiritual and material life growing up in Krishna consciousness. There was always a clear divide between what I did at home and what I did in school, an

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9980954464?profile=RESIZE_584xHave you ever seen this little sentence on your phone: “Searching for network?” I remember looking at that one day and thinking how the mind is always searching for a network, too. Especially when traveling, I look at the phone and it’s going back and forth: “Where’s the network? I need a network!” It wants to hook up to some network somewhere. 

If I don’t take charge of which network my phone connects to–if I just walk out the door–my phone will hook on to somebody else’s network. And for some

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