The Universal Importance of Mantra

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All the mystics tell us to live each moment as if it were our last, and

the man or woman who repeats the Mantram regularly and with real

devotion is actually preparing for this. The person who has become

established in the mantram, who has made the mantram an integral part

of his or her consciousness, is prepared for death at all times.

Mahatma Gandhi, explaining this state, said once that it would be

easier for his life to stop than for his mantram Rama to cease

reverberating in his consciousness. And this is indeed how it came to

pass: when his body was pierced by the assassin's bullets, Gandhi

blessed his attacker with folded hands and fell with Rama on his lips

and in his heart.

 

Excerpted from "The Mantram handbook"

by Eknath Easwaran