A Sacred Mantra

A Sacred Mantra is a secret mantra that acts as a key to your spiritual home with every letter vibrating in harmony with your spiritual nature. As you would be cautious about entrusting your house key to strangers, so would you be cautious when opening your heart and handing over the key to your inner temple. A mantra is a word of special significance to the user, which when repeated focuses, liberates, and frees the mind from serial day today thought processes. Mantras usually evolve from the ground up expressing that which it is thought could bring the greatest happiness, an example of a secular mantra is likely to be money, money, money!!! Money is not always the panacea for all ills, as when desperate we often look to divine intervention, an example of a religious or spiritual mantra is the Jesus Prayer “Lord Jesus Christ Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.”

Sound vibrations give rise to pattern, not unlike the sand particles on a tray that form into patterns when the tray is vibrated. Each of us is patterned uniquely and if we could discover our underlying sound pattern, we could‘re-fresh’ and reconstitute our being. The totality of all sound patterns shabda Brahman, is represented by the mantra ‘OM’ and a divine humming, when manifest and un-manifest sound, coalesce in mutual harmony. The mantra ‘OM’ has many levels of application, such as a harmonising and unifying tone during meditation, and more specifically, when attuned for healing purposes to a particular condition.

Mantras have an emotional and spiritual bias that transcend the limits of word definition and reach into the timeless reality which transcends the distortions of time. How many of us know who we truly are? Having adopted characteristics like actors in a play as we try to cope with the pressures of day to day life. Mantra can help us discover the unique nature gifted to us from the beginning of time.

Sacred mantra helps us to transcend the limits of time, as for example the mantra hamsa, usually translated as ‘swan’, more accurately refers to the wild goose whose migratory track takes it high over the Himalaya mountains into the rarefied upper air. The closely related mantra so’ham, “I am He” is linked to the natural vibration of the Self and the natural rhythm of the inflowing and out-flowing breath. Sacred mantras are divine utterances which arise out of the infinite and give form to the surrounding energy field. We are all unique and have a particular part to play within the field of life. Our spiritual name or emanation provides an important link between time and eternity, hence the important aim of yoga, which is self-realisation.

Each Self has a unique contribution to make in the life of the universe and its highest attributes establish an important link between time and eternity. The sacred mantra does not lock you into narrow frame of reference, but frees the spirit within to become true to itself. The mantra so’ham has been linked with the breath and the spirit of the body, the first part ‘so’ has been linked with the Sanskrit sah which means HE or That, and ham with aham, I AM; meaning That I Am; or conversely I Am That; that is of the nature of the Divine or transcendent.

As a meditation become aware of the inflowing and out-flowing breath, the inflowing breath is so or sah, in which the in-breath represents consciousness reaching beyond the limits of the breath into the transcendent stillness of the absolute. The out-breath ah (aham), breathes out into the time process establishing a unique being and essence. Words are self-limiting and cannot define your true essence, so sit in silence and feel for those intrinsic qualities at the centre of your being, which is God’s gift and what makes you who you truly are.