MANTRA INTRODUCTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A MANTRA IS WORD OR SET OF WORDS THAT IS REPEATED OVER AND OVER IN THE MIND, TO PRODUCE A SPECIFIC RESULT. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE MYSTERY OF MANTRA IS VERY GREAT. TO KNOW MANTRA IS TO KNOW THE MIND. ONE CAN ACHIEVE ONE-POINTED AWARENESS OF THROUGH MANTRA. MANTRA PURIFIES THE MIND. TRULY SPEAKING MANTRA IS NOT MERELY LETTERS OR SYLLABLES. MANTRA IS THE BASIS OF THE MIND. THE UNIVERSAL CREATIVE ENERGY, WHICH IS ONE WITH THE DIVINE, VIBRATES AT THE ROOT OF THE MIND, JUST AS IT VIBRATES IN EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE. MANTRA HAS NO RELIGION, IS OF NO RELIGION, IT IS A DIRECT METHOD TO BECOME CLOSER TO THE DIVINE. IT WORKS FOR A PERSON OF ANY FAITH AS THE DIVINE HAS NO RELIGION EITHER. IF YOUR BELIEF SYSTEMS WERE MAINLY CHRISTIAN, AND YOU CAME TO ME TO ASK FOR ASSISTANCE IN GROWING, AND WISHED TO TO TRY MANTRA AS A METHOD, I WOULD GIVE YOU A "CHRISTIAN" MANTRA, AS IT IS LIKELY THAT IS WHAT WOULD WORK BEST FOR YOU ! A MANTRA IN THE SANSKRIT LANGUAGE IS FAR SUPERIOR TO ONE IN ANY OTHER LANGUAGE. (READ THE FILE ON SANSKRIT WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE.) ACCORDING TO SHAVISM, THE INNER PULSATION IS THE "TRUE" MANTRA. IT IS THROUGH THAT "MANTRA" THAT WE CONTEMPLATE, PERCEIVE AND EXPERIENCE THE SUPREME PRINCIPLE. WHEN THE MIND IMMERSES ITSELF IN THAT VIBRATION, IT IS THE SAME AS THE MANTRA. THE SHIVA SUTRAS SAY THAT THE MIND IS MANTRA: CHITTAM MANTRAH (THE ORIGINAL SANSKRIT WORDS STATING THIS). THE POWER OF MANTRA REPETITION LIES IN ITS CAPACITY TO BRING YOU INTO THE STATE OF ONENESS WITH THAT INNER PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS. IN FACT, MANTRA MAHESHVARAHA: MANTRA IS THE SUPREME LORD. (MEANING "THE WORD IS THE DIVINE".) MANTRA IS ITSELF THE FORM OF THE DIVINE: THIS NAME AND NATURE ARE NOT DIFFERENT. THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS REPEAT THE MANTRA WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE MANTRA, THE GOAL OF THE MANTRA, AND THE REPEATER OF THE MANTRA ARE ONE. g. das