June 2015
A mantra provides a gentle focus of attention, grounded in the present; a faint idea of mental repetition without necessity for clear pronunciation.
Repeating a word ceaselessly, any word and particularly ancient words of power can work wonders. It is not so much what word but the urge, the hidden motive that matters. Be here now, in the presence of the mantra.
No idea of control is required, allowing all ideas and thoughts to come and go as they will. They are neither good nor bad. When seen that the mantra is lost to thought, gently come back to the mantra.
Our concern is with the mantra, and if other thoughts are there along with it we do not mind them, and we don’t try to remove them. Just innocently favour the mantra as we innocently favour the spaces between people as we walk in a crowded street.
The mantra is, as with all means of present-centred attention, visual, tactile or auditory, simply part of one’s sustained will to be present and at one with now.
Whatever you do for the sake of finding your own real self will surely bring you to it. No need of faith, which is but the expectations of results. Whatever you do for the sake of truth will surely bring you to truth.
Be earnest and honest. The shape it takes hardly matters. Action is not really needed, just longing, undiluted by thought and action, pure concentrated longing, will take you speedily to your goal. It is the true motive that matters, not the manner.
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