MANTRAS.... are they useful?

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Dear Aparajita:

 

 

 

Words matter. Any word. Especially if you have a 13 in your numerology.

 

Words can hurt or they can bless.

 

 

 

There are special sounds which we call mantra. These sounds bless you when

you chant them. They are keys to awaken in us the memory of certain

feelings, certain experiences.

 

 

 

Breath is the simplest mantra. Without breath there is no life. Breath

brings a vibration in and out of the body and when it is done consciously it

brings life force into you and you get to share it with the world.

 

 

 

If you try chanting for a while, you will feel that you are much more

focused than if you just meditate. A chant creates a vibration that your

nervous system recognizes. Also if you pay attention to your mind, you will

notice the many different voices that try to get your attention before you

enter meditation, yoga or chanting. It is as though chanting realigns all

these voices to vibrate together. Then, you waste much less energy trying to

convince all parts of you to align to a given focus.

 

 

 

Try doing the Kirtan Kriya (SA TA NA MA) without chanting (aloud or

mentally). I don't think it is possible to do once you know what not to

think about. But try. Think about something else. Do it for 11 minutes,

everything but the chant; and an hour later do it properly with the chant.

You should be able to feel the difference.

 

 

 

In Yogananda's book Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogananda talks about the sound

AUM as the word the bible speaks about with which God created the world. The

vibration AUM when chanted aligns you to the creative aspect of the universe

(the divine mother). Yogananda says AUM became HUM of the Tibetans, AMIN of

the Moslems, and AMEN of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Jews, and

Christians.

 

 

 

Another look at vibrations: Notice your own use of vibration. When people

moan, they create a vibration that expresses something that they could not

say in words but that is somehow healing or at least soothing; when people

like/love something they create a different vibration. Vibrations are more

powerful than just saying "I like that" Have you noticed?

 

Lovers could communicate with each other with vibrations only without saying

actual words. Telepathy is a thought vibration. Vibrating is like tasting a

feeling. Does that make sense to you?

 

So when you try to access something you don't know fully like the bliss of

wisdom for instance, what vibration would you create? This is where you call

on mantras, vibrations tested through the ages which are know to give you a

certain experience. Yogis have told us that if you vibrate WAHE GURU or WAHE

G'RU you will access that vibration and as you repeat that over and over, at

some point your whole body responds with a sense of recognition and you know

what this blissful feeling is like. You have downloaded all of the wisdom in

the world by chanting WAHE GURU. It is a key to the space of wisdom. And not

only do you have access to the wisdom, but also to the blissful experience

of that wisdom. Nothing else can give you that.

 

 

 

Blessings,

 

Awtar