The highest benefits of mindfulness are achieved when we combine mindfulness with mantra meditation. This enables us to again experience our eternal spiritual nature.

Each of us is actually by nature a pure love particle. Our natural condition is to love the Supreme Soul and to love all other living beings unconditionally. Because of this we need to experience loving and being loved. When we first come to this material world, we no longer experience this loving union with the Supreme Soul. When we then express this spiritual need for pure love through our material body and mind in this world, this love very easily becomes polluted by self-centeredness. Spiritual love can become material lust when my focus is on myself rather than on pleasing the object of my love.

Our spiritual nature is full of qualities such as compassion, kindness, forgiveness, tolerance and selflessness. We are all like a very precious diamond. Just as a diamond can become very covered by dirt, we can also become covered by undesirable qualities such as lust, anger, greed, envy, hatred etc. Such qualities do not belong in our heart, but unfortunately most of us have accepted them to be normal in this world.

The experience of just one glimpse of pure love for the Supreme Soul is enough to change our existence forever. The taste is so wonderful that one can never forget it. One wants to experience this again and again. At that point one knows what the goal of life is, and one makes a decision to follow spiritual practices to come to a point where one can more regularly experience this wonderful pure spiritual love.