The Science of Meditation

BY IMRE VALLYON. EXCERPT FROM THE ART OF MEDITATION

The secret of meditation is difficult for the Westerner to understand, because the Westerner does not understand the basic constitution of the human being or the Universe. For the Westerner, a human being has a physical body, an emotional structure, a mental structure, and a balloon called the Soul. Nobody knows where that balloon is (supposedly it is floating up in heaven somewhere), and when you die, you somehow become that Soul and join the Heavenly Father surrounded by angels playing harps. With such a disunited view of reality it is difficult for people in the West to understand the secret of meditation: Nothing is disunited; everything constitutes one complete continuum. This means that your physical body is continuous with your astral body, which is continuous with your mind body, which is continuous with your Soul, which is continuous with your Spirit, which is continuous with God. Only with such a view will the process of meditation begin to make sense. When you sit down to meditate, therefore, you are seeking Unity - or in religious terminology, God-Consciousness; in Yogic terminology, Self-Realization; in Buddhist terminology, Nirvana; and in Chinese terminology, Tao. Whatever word you use, you are seeking an ultimate experience that you think is somewhere far out of your reach. And this notion arises because of your compartmental way of thinking, since you do not realize that you are already in that ultimate condition. The function of meditation is to remove the blocks that prevent you from realizing that you are already in the ultimate condition that you are seeking. You are already in that ultimate condition because there is only one infinite continuum that contains no separate parts. Mantra Siddhi, the power of the mantra, is the basis of meditation. The understanding of the use of Mantra - Mantra Science - is vast in scope, with thousands of mantras in the Eastern system and in the Western system (the Hebrew Hagah system). But I want to tell you about Mantra Siddhi so that you will be inspired to use mantras, so that you will grasp their profound significance. Mantra Siddhi means that each mantra has its own power. The Sanskrit word Siddhi has many meanings: accomplishment, perfection, psychic or occult power, success, and vital energy. So the term Mantra Siddhi encompasses all these meanings: It means that through Mantra you accomplish, you achieve, you succeed, you have vital energy, and you realize perfection. To begin with, the origin of Mantra is Shãkti, the Great Sea of Feminine Energy that permeates all Creation, ruling, guiding, and organizing it. Now Mantra Shãkti, or the energy of the mantra, has its origin in that higher source. In Yoga, the upper regions of Shãkti are called Nãda or Shabda-Brãhman or Anãhatã-Shabda, which refer to sound in its highest resonance. None of these is a physical sound; they are causal sounds that can only be heard with causal hearing. In your causal body, therefore, you are immersed in a massive sea of Sound-Light Energy. In other words, the Causal World, the highest region of Shãkti, is a massive sea of mantric energy that manifests as differentiated Sound and Light. And then that mantric energy descends and forms the Mental Worlds, then the Astral Worlds, and finally the Etheric-Physical and Physical Worlds. That is the origin of Mantra. So Creation is actually produced through sound, or Mantra, and each mantra emanated by a creator becomes the created act. For instance, the Solar Logos utters a mantra and the Solar System comes into being. On a smaller scale the Planetary Logos utters a mantra and the planet comes into being. Every Creative Hierarchy utters mantras and Creation comes into being. The principle is the same whether it is a human creator, an angelic creator, a god or goddess, a logos, a solar logos, or a galactic logos. They all utter mantras and those mantras bring about creation on various scales. What is important to understand is that the Mantra Shãkti comes from the Causal World. So when you receive a mantra in an initiation, the creative act has already been performed for you: The mantra has been brought down from the Causal World. When you use the mantra, however, the movement is reversed. As you recite the mantra inside yourself, you immediately set up a sound resonance—Nãda or Shabda Brãhman or Anãhatã-Shabda—a sound vibration too subtle for the physical ear to hear, audible only in the inner dimensions with the psychic inner ear. Every time you announce that mantra, therefore, there is an effect in the Cosmos, in the Inner Worlds, where it is clearly perceptible as an energy current. And since by the laws of nature every action has a reaction, there must be a response from the Cosmos. And this is the key to Mantra Siddhi (the power of Mantra). That is why the great Teachers of Mantra say that everybody, without exception, can be saved by the power of Mantra. No matter how bad their karma or how low their consciousness or how degenerate they may be: If they use Mantra systematically, the transformation must take place. Mantra is one medicine that is applicable to everybody. Only one thing is needed: The will or desire to use it. And if you seriously use it, I can guarantee that it will work miracles in your life.

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