Mantra

BY IMRE VALLYON. EXCERPT FROM THE ART OF MEDITATION

What makes a sacred language, or the sacred part of a language, sacred? Whether the language is Sanskrit, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Chinese, or any ancient language, the sacred part of it is sacred because of the sound formulas (letters) in the language. Each one of the sound formulas is a unique strand of energy in the Ocean of Shãkti. So when you introduce a Mantra into your system your natural Shãkti energy field is impacted by the unique stream of energy that that particular mantra represents. That is why it can be awakened inside you. As was mentioned previously, the Universal Shãkti is always inside us, but we are simply not aware of it. When we recite a mantra internally, we slowly learn to focus our attention on the mantra, and we begin to realize that it is an energy stream. Then, as our attention remains focused on the mantra and we penetrate deeper and deeper into the very substance of that mantra, we realize that that energy stream is actually a wavelet in Mahashakti, the Great Ocean of Energy permeating all of Creation. Mantra is a part of that Ocean, a specialized part that allows us to access it. In Sanskrit a mantra is referred to as bija, or a ‘seed’, a concentrated form of energy. A seed mantra, RAM or OM for example, is composed of letters. But they are not just letters, they are energy units. When you say the mantra out loud, you make a physical sound, which is a sound-energy unit that has a measurable vibration and a specific form or shape. But the real significance of the mantra is that on the inner levels it also forms a perceivable structure and a definite energy wave. If you look clairvoyantly at the mantra you are reciting, you will see a translucent shape, usually the form of a god or a goddess or an angelic or other translucent being. You will also see that the mantra emanates different colours, as well as a pulsating light wave. So the mantra has a threefold effect: form, colour, and light (which is its innermost essence). In the beginning it is just the form you will notice; later on you will be aware of its actual energy; and finally you will notice its essence of light. Thus the mantra takes you from the form worlds to the intermediary energy worlds to the real world of Light. And it can do that because the mantra that you recite is not separate from the Shãkti Energy that permeates and sustains the form worlds of Creation—the physical, astral, mental, and causal universes and heaven worlds—the countless universes made out of matter of different degrees of density. Nor is it separate from the Transcendental Reality, the Infinite Field of Light that contains the form worlds and the formless worlds—the Buddhic, Nirvanic, Paranirvanic, and Mahaparanirvanic Planes. The important point is that the mantra will slowly take your awareness away from the form reality to the energy reality and then to the Light reality. And it does this in a natural way, because Shabda Brãhman, or God as Sound, has three aspects: the Sound that produces physical Creation; the Sound that is Shãkti, the Energy Reality; and the Sound that is Light, the Absolute Condition. Sound is an unimaginable reality. That is why in every religion the Divine Name is an unimaginable Glory beyond the conception of even the highest Buddhas or Angels or Christs, who only know that there is something beyond the Absolute Light that they cannot even name—what we call God or the Absolute or the Transcendental Reality. The amazing thing about Mantra is that, if you persevere with its practice with total dedication and sincerity, it will take you through major transformations of awareness inside yourself—by its very nature. First it will impact on anything that is created or formed—the physical, astral, mental, and causal forms that we can see with our physical, astral, mental, and causal eyes, appearing to them as separated forms and objects. But as the mantra takes you deeper inside yourself, the awareness of separate forms disappears as you become aware of the Boundless Ocean of Energy. The mantra will take you to that awareness because it is that Energy, its source is in that Energy. Then, as you reach the perfected stages of meditation, even the attraction to the Ocean of Energy disappears, as you realize the mantra's subtle essence of Pure Light. Then you will be drawn to the other Universe, to the Light of Atman, the Light of God.

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