Mantra, or Primordial Sounds are used during meditation. Mantra is the most basic vibration of nature and is used as a tool to quiet our mind, which can be compared to a chattering monkey. We can never quiet our mind by an act of will power. It has been said that during a day we think aproximately 70.000 thougts. Every thought has two aspects, one is sound or vibration, the other is that it has a meaning. The meaning of a thought creates a chain of never ending associations. These will hold our awereness at the level of conscious thinking. The mantra has also a sound or vibration, which is calming or soothing to our nervous system, but it has no meaning. There for the mantra can be used as a tool to brake the never ending chain of thoughts. This then will allow our mind to go to more quiet levels and eventually slip beyond thoughts to our essential state which actually is our soul. In sanskrit this is called Atma darshan. This means direct experience of our soul.
The more regular you are practicing your meditation, the more silence and contact with your essential state you will expericence.
The mantra or Primordial Sound used when practising Primordial Sound Meditation, represents the vibration of the Universe at the time and place where you were born. Vedic mathematics are used to calculate your mantra.
Mantras have been used over time in many different traditions and many different purposes.This classic form of meditation originates from the vedic tradition and has been practised for thousands fo years. In this technique we use the mantra only for one purpose, to take our mind from daily activity to the stillnes of our soul. The mantra is always used quietly. Like we "listen" to our thoughts we listen to our mantra. Hearing is experienced at the most subtle level of our consciousness. Used at this very subtle level the mantra will be most powerful.
Mantra is sanskrit and can be translated to "vehicle of the mind". A mantra truly is a vehicle that takes you into quieter, more peaceful levels of the mind.
The mantra is a very efficiant tool to "draw" our awareness into stillness. It should never be used with force, trying to resist thougts. The perfect meditation is not necessarily a meditation free of thoughts, but a meditation where you do not resist your thougts!
Meditation is about letting go, to loose control. Paradoxically, you can only reach your essential state, or pure awareness, by not trying to get there. The mantra is a very powerful tool to get in contact with your essential state.
Attending a course, you will be told to keep your mantra secret and not speak it out vocally. The reasen for this is not mystical but rational. If you take the mantra out in activity, it will weaken its effect. By using it only in silence, it's like an agreement you make with your self. The mantra can be compared to a seed that is planted in you awareness. This seed will help you to grow an evolve to higher states of consciousness. If you would plant a seed in the ground, you certainly wouldn't dig it up every day to check if it has grown! If you would do so it probaly wouldn't grow! |
