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The mantra is a technique where
the mind is focused by constant repetition of a word or phrase. In
itself, focusing on a particular word or phrase is quite effective
at creating a
single point focus. However, the mantra concept does have the
possibility of creating obstacles to the realizations we desires.
This is because any mantra used is a word or sound. Our
understanding of the concept behind the mantra that is used is an
expectation of the mind. For example, to use the concept love as a
mantra, our experiences and understanding of love will interfere and
block our experience of what we would call true love, real love or
even unconditional love. This same type of statement can be made for
any other mantra that is used. Our concepts of whatever we use will
limit what we create.
The origins and belief about the mantra is that it has a sound
structure which represents a particular aspect of the Divine that
has been heard by a Sage in deep meditation while experiencing A/The
Truth or some truth about Creation and/or their perception of God.
The “sacred” sounds are then handed down through generations of
spiritual teachers as guides for seekers of truth. The logic is the
concentrated mental repetition of the mantra produces a vibrations
within the individual that are characteristic of the Divine
attribute first experienced by the Sage. Many traditions have
dictated that mantra be kept secret and only give by an initiated
master within the tradition. Frequently, mantras are not given until
the seeker has proven themselves a sincere practioner of the
tradition. The mantra technique does work for many individuals and
to various degrees and there are a variety of reasons for this. In
some ways the mantra is not given until the individual has developed
a sufficient perspective to view Creation the way, or in the manner
of, the one who first discovered the mantra.
In being given a mantra after we have “proven” ourselves and/or
become initiated, a mantra has the potential to access the our
emotional energy because we are now considered special within the
tradition we practice. By being given a sacred sound or mantra by an
initiated master, kept secret except to those who have advanced to a
certain level, is a great emotional boost to both the our ego and
the power of the mantra. However, this process in giving an
emotional boost to the ego, reinforces the ego. A reinforced ego in
turn becomes a further obstacle to getting past the ego to
understand our true nature.
Additionally, there are some other issues that interfere with this
concept of using the mantra to access the Divine. First, all is
sacred for all emanates from the same Source of Creation. Hence
nothing is more or less sacred than another. Only our judgements and
biases create that separation. To believe something is more sacred
than something else creates separation.
Any word or sound will work to create a
single point focus. In using any word in repetition, what needs
to be asked is, “What does one desire to create by the use of this
word?” It is the intention behind our actions that is really what we
are creating or attempting to create. Any thought held will direct
our energy into a physical experience biased or based on that
thought. In this regard, the choice of word or words for a single
point focus should be carefully considered. There is a great
difference in what one word can accomplish over another.
In choosing a word, we must also be aware of how we view the word we
choose. For example, returning to the word love. Love has many
meaning. Something that most could probably agree upon is that
unconditional love is a love that creates a space of freedom. That
is, there are no conditions or “strings attached” to what is given
an any level of being. A thank you for what is given is not even
expected. Alternatively said, unconditional love nurtures and
sustains a being while creating the conditions for its unfettered
unfoldment unique to its own nature without any expectations of
return.
We may expect to create unconditional love. However, if all our
experiences around love have been conditional, then we will create
an experience of conditional love as carried in our subconscious and
be puzzled why it is not unconditional. What needs to be understood
is if we have not experienced unconditional love or have not defined
it as to what it really means, we have no way of creating it for our
only references are conditional love. That is true unless we are
willing to step out of mind and be lead into the experience of what
unconditional live really is. Then in the experience of it, we will
know what it is and what it feels like.
It needs to be noted that any concept we give to a word or in
defining a word is only our experience of some energy and aspect of
Creation that we are trying to capture. The word has nothing to do
with the experience other than to bring our awareness and attention
back to that experience of the past. In essence we try to capture
the experience that existed when we thought it was necessary to
first create the word. In this way words cause separation. Words
give the illusion we can separate the particular or part of the
experience or observation from all that created it. This is true for
any word that we use. If we don’t really understand a word or it has
little meaning for us, or we carry some baggage of previous
experiences about the word, these limitations will manifest as part
of our experience when the word is used as a mantra.
Additionally, there is another facet of the mantra that is not
understood. It is the fact a Sage has an experience that they
characterize as a particular sound does not mean someone else would
experience the same facet of the Divine in the same way. We each are
unique creations. Although our consciousness may have the same
experiences, translating that experience into any form to
communicate it to another in the form or a word or sound means the
experience is filtered through a unique body and unique mind and
that unique body and mind biases the information. There is no
guarantee what is communicated is an accurate communication.
Our problem is whenever you take something of infinite
proportions and collapse it into a finite form, we risk masking a
portion of its expression. This does not mean the infinite is not
present in the finite form. Rather it is only unexpressed and
unseen. This is the problem all human have when they have to bring
any internal experience externally to communicate it to another.
However, one can communicate psychically without the need for the
body and its mind to filter the information. But, if one does that
and the other hears, then there is no need for the communication in
the first place for each already knows and one only needs to tune
themselves to the other. Of course, if one understands that they can
tune themselves to another to experience the other, they would have
already transcended what we call the human experience and the need
to communicated through the human senses, which in turn, defines the
human experience and what it means to be human - the experience of
the infinite in a finite physical form.
As for the mantra being a sound structure that represents a
particular aspect of the Divine, if we realizes the Divine is
infinite and each sound is an aspect of the Divine then there are an
infinite number of sounds that can be used. It is all a question of
what aspect of the Divine do we wish to experience. Also, because
the Sage hears a particular aspect of the Divine in a particular way
does not make what they hear The Sound of the Divine. It is only the
Sage’s experience of the Divine and our experience of that
particular aspect of the Divine may or may not be the same. We
really can’t know the sound of the Divine until we explore our own
true nature and listen and see how the Divine uniquely reveals
itself to us. Besides, since all raises from the same Source, what
is not Divine?
As discussed in the topic, “Becoming
a copy or an original,” an independent consciousness can mold
itself into the form and expression of any other consciousness. By
focusing on the sage and the experiences they have had in the way
the had them, we can become the sage and have the experiences they
have had. However, again, they are the sage’s experiences and how
the sage experiences Creation. What they experience as a unique
consciousness may be different than what we would experiences if you
were living true to our nature as the unique consciousness we are
rather than trying to copy what the sage experienced. So ultimately
the question becomes, “Do you want to become a copy or an original.”
The focus of all the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity material
and applications is that you become an original unto yourself.
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