Mantra – is the most powerful instrument of perfection, enlightenment, inner transformation and purification. Even though most often in its outer phonic form it is very simple, it has an immense power of transforming your consciousness, personality and purifying your thoughts, emotions and karmic body.
Mantra can be very short, consisting of one syllable, then it is called bija mantra, that is a magic syllable – a seed, germinal mantra that bears the entire spiritual, magic and transforming world in itself. Such mantra often does not have a concrete and rational meaning, and yet contains the entire world of abilities and powers just like a seed has a plant in itself. Such seed mantras as AIM, KLIM, SHRIM and others are associated with particular deities. Most probably the most universal mantra is OM, which sometimes is called the shortest name of God. This mantra starts most mantras of Hinduism and Buddhism. It ranges most of the things and it is true to say that the entire world, all names, all meanings and powers begin and end in this mantra.
Mantras are also associated with chakras or specific functions, so you can perfect the system of your chakras with the help of mantra chanting. There are also mantras related to planets, as well as to the Sun. They will help not only to harmonize and purify your relation with planets but also correct areas in your destiny that are related to these planets.
There are mantras that can help harmonize your relation with the five elements, and recreate their purity and integrity inside yourself. Mantras are also used to purify and bless our food, to make peace with local deities, get their approval, protection, etc.
In short, mantra is a very universal instrument of immense power of human consciousness and is suitable for many cases of life.
In fact, a person who touches the world of mantras for the first time, especially if there is a guru to guide that touch and if a person gets a mantra through initiation, he/she may feel as if there happens an energetic, significant and informational explosion in the consciousness, creation of a new world, enlightenment, the great bliss and blessing, reality of the paradise, a miracle and something incredible – something that has never been before. I think this is what should really happen, for God or the Holy Spirit, our Immortal Eternal, Enlightened Self, the Eternal Spiritual Guru can very closely speak to us through mantras.
Certainly, for such reaction to happen in your consciousness with just a touch to the mantra world there should be certain baggage of achievements in mantra yoga in your soul’s previous lives.
At the moment of such touch in your consciousness, immense power of spiritual, energetic and significant contents is simply released, returns and is drawn into this life because it was unfolded and reminded by mantras. It is as if skills and experiences of your previous lives unveil; the mantra becomes the gates to the timeless and eternal realm of the Spirit.
This was the experience of mine when I saw the full text of the one hundred Vajrasattva (or purifying and cleaning) mantra for the first time in my life. Until that moment I had not seen it in this life and I could not, for this text is shown only for initiated people (at least it was so back then) and, yet, reading it I thought that I had never read anything more beautiful and stunningly wonderful than that mantra. It seemed as if the whole world silenced, stood still and recited the mantra together with me with a response. I wanted to cry from immense bliss, however, the inner peace was stronger – I thought I knew each sound and something immensely happy inside me wanted to jump outside and run in front of me and recite all those totally lovely, familiar and quivering words. I was absolutely certain that this mantra was liberating and that it contained the whole infinite enlightened world. I did not need any proofs – this liberation, purification and elevation was simply happening. I felt the great eternal Dharmakaya (the indescribable and immense one) speaking to me at that moment…
Even thought if you do not have such reactions, even if at the beginning you think that nothing is happening when you recite a mantra, be certain that something is happening if your mantra is correctly written and pronounced – it is just that you still lack sensitivity and abilities to fixate the subtle effect of a mantra. There is an effect by all means and it does not take long to see it in changes of certain emotions, personal reactions to the world, even physical appearance, reactions of other people and your own world outlook. Even if you still do not realize this…