Mantras are effective tools for communication. When you chant a mantra to invoke a particular dev, the mantra establishes a connection between you and the dev. But to be able to communicate with the dev, purity is required. If the child starts doing wrong things and gets corrupt by the day, gradually the connection between mother and child starts weakening until one day the mother can no longer sense the child. Your connection with Shiv is no different. You have all come from there. Shiv is nirgun and from nirgun you have become sagun and taken your present form. Since you have come from Shiv, you have the ability to communicate with him. But you can do so only after establishing a certain level of purity within you. Till you purify yourself, nothing will happen, you can do as many pujas…like on Diwali, where people hurry up their pujas because they are running late for a gambling or drinking session or in a marriage ceremony, where the pandit is offered a thousand rupee note to rush the proceedings. All this indicates that there is no connection, the mantras that are being chanted are of no value. If the pandit’s thoughts are on how much money he can earn, the mantras will not have any effect.

Every element, each body has a different frequency and that is what a mantra is. The frequency of Shri Mahamrityunjay mantra, for example, is for cleansing and strengthening the body. Similarly there are different mantras for different things. Purification is the first step. Initially the body is cleansed with certain mantras and then the ways for communication can be taught. When the cleanliness inside you increases, the energy of the cells becomes subtler and the power of communication gets enhanced. The first sign of communication is intuition…

If your intuition is increasing, that means you are on the right path but if you are doing the kriya and chants and your intuition is not increasing that means you are walking on the wrong path.