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Monday, May 12, 2008

Ask Deepak: Mantra

In your answer to a question about mantra meditation you wrote:
Using a mantra during meditation gives the mind a vehicle to experience its own quieter states when the mind sympathetically resonates with the impulses of the mantra. This non-analytical movement of attention with the mantra facilitates the experience of the non-local mind because the resonant structure of the mantras themselves mimic the fundamental properties of that field of all possibilities at the core of our Being.

Could you please explain what is meant by the underlined section: specifically, what is meant by ‘mimic’ and what are the fundamental properties that are being mimicked.
Answer:
The mantras were originally cognized by enlightened seers in the remote past.
The primordial laws of nature that they experienced in the core of their Being, reverberated in the crystal clear purity of their consciousness. They gave expression to this experience by chanting the Vedic sounds that reflected those impulses of their experience. These are the Vedic mantras. When we meditate using these mantras, we are in essence reversing that process. Instead of the mantra being the expression of the inner non-local experience , the impulse of the mantra is introduced to awareness and then allowed to dissipate into that non-local domain. The faint impulses of the mantra settling down during meditation are the same structure as the impulses of enlightened awareness emerging from that state. That is how the resonant structure of the mantra serves as a vehicle for the mind to transition from diversity to simplicity. An analysis of the properties of the non-local field identified in the syllables and sounds of the bija mantras is an entire subject in itself and requires a background in Vedic Sanskrit.
Love,
Deepak

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