What is a mantra? Should I have one?

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Osho:

 

Remember that a mantra is a secret technique to achieve more power. A mantra is

not spiritual, it is political, but the politics are of the inner space, not of

the outer.

 

The mind can become powerful if you narrow it down; narrowing is the method. The

more narrow the mind, the more powerful it becomes. It is just like the sun's

rays falling to the ground. If you focus those waves, those rays, through a

lens, fire can be created. Those rays were falling all spread out but now they

have been narrowed down through the lens. They have become one-pointed,

concentrated; now fire is possible.

 

The mind is energy, in fact, the same energy that comes through the sun, the

same subtle rays. Ask the physicists. They say the mind has a voltage of

electricity, that it is electrical.

 

If you can focus the mind through a lens, the mantra is a lens, and you go on

repeating Ram, Ram, Ram, or Om, Om, Om, or anything, just one word -- if you go

repeating and repeating and repeating it, and the mind's whole energy is

centered in that one word -- it becomes a lens. Now all the rays are passing

through that lens. Narrowed to one point it becomes powerful, you can do

miracles. Just by thinking you can do miracles.

 

But remember, those miracles are not spiritual. Power is never spiritual.

Powerlessness, helplessness, to be nothing, is spiritual. Power is never

spiritual. This is the difference between magic and religion; magic is after

power, religion is after nothingness.

 

A mantra is a part of magic not of religion at all, but everything is a big

mess, mixed up. People who are doing miracles are magicians, not spiritual in

any way. They are even anti-spiritual because they are spreading magic in the

name of religion, which is very dangerous.

 

Through a mantra the mind is narrowed; it is more narrowed, more powerful, and

then anything can be done. There is only one thing you will miss -- you will

miss yourself. All miracles will be possible, the ultimate miracle you will

miss. You will miss yourself because through narrowing down you can achieve an

object. The more the mind is narrowed, the more it becomes fixed to an object;

it becomes objective. You are hidden behind and the object is outside.

 

So if you are a man of mantras you can say to this tree, "Die," and the tree

will die; you can say to a man, "Be healthy," and the disease will disappear,

or, "Be unhealthy," and the disease will enter -- many things you can do. You

can become somebody, and people will recognize you as a man of power but never a

man of God.

 

A man of God is born when the mind is not narrowed at all, when the mind is not

flowing in one direction but is overflowing in all directions. There is no lens,

no mantra, just the energy flowing in all dimensions everywhere. That flowing

energy, that energy overflowing everywhere, will make you alert about yourself

because then there is no object. Only you, only subjectivity exists, and through

you, you will become aware of God, not through any power.

 

Osho, A Bird on the Wing,Chapter 6

 

 

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In a message dated 5/29/2003 10:08:22 AM Central Daylight Time,

supraath writes:

> A man of God is born when the mind is not narrowed at all, when the mind is

> not flowing in one direction but is overflowing in all directions. There is

> no lens, no mantra, just the energy flowing in all dimensions everywhere.

> That flowing energy, that energy overflowing everywhere, will make you alert

> about yourself because then there is no object. Only you, only subjectivity

> exists, and through you, you will become aware of God, not through any power.

>

> Osho, A Bird on the Wing,Chapter 6

>

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HREF="http://profiles./supraath">http://profiles./supraath</A>

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Namaste,

 

Very nice article. I will share this with my Wife.

 

Lee,

 

 

 

 

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Thank you . This was very inspirational and true.

 

N. Jones-El