State Anxiety and Anger levels among listeners of Vedic Mantra Chanting

Abstract

The Vedas are impersonal and inspirational hints of ultimate reality unveiled by persons of peerless perseverance for perfection, the Rishis. Vedic chanting is a meditative practice from the rich tradition of Indian spiritual practices (Sripad Ghaligi 2006). The present study focuses on the effect of state anger and anxiety levels of the Listening to Vedic chanting, who had minimum exposure to such chanting. Data of the pre and post levels of state anger and anxiety was statistically analysed and the results show a considerable reduction in the post test scores of both the state anger and anxiety levels of the listeners of Vedic mantras.