The Subtle Effect of Mantras

The subtle effect of mantras (mystic formulae) mentioned in the Vedas cannot be seen or heard by the senses; they have to be experienced in and through the inner consciousness, the Anthahkarana.

The sound of these mantras has the power to transform the impulses and tendencies. The word mantra means 'that which saves when turned over in the mind'. Repeating the mantra constantly in the mind will keep off wild talk, purposeless conversation, aimless gossip and scandal. Talk only when the talk is most essential and talk only as little as is necessary. Talk sweetly and without any reservations or circumvention. I want all to be convinced of the excellence of these teachings of the Vedas and Shasthras(scriptures).

Baba (thought for the day)

 

We were initiated in a TM Bija mantra, seed mantra and they were not used with the Pranava, the OM and had to be given with Puja by a master. We had to memorize that Puja during the teacher's training.

It was beautiful, but afterwards I noticed that it was a program, which never changed. The teaching said with a mantra we will use more of the unlimited potential of the mind as life is progressing in direction of more and more, we will be more creative and find it easier to go on with the changing lessons of our life. It also said that life is always changing and we have to be able to go with those changes and as meditation makes us more creative, it is possible to Keep up with the changes of our time and to adapt easier to it. That sounded convincing until the inner view showed changes ahead and it didn't make sense and it was impossible with TM to realize it and to get right answers, we had to get it with another master.
It was a big change for me, but only for me, not for all the others, they just went on as always and with time I noticed that they teach to be able to change, but they really are that caught up in programs and technique, change is for them just an illusion.  

I was on the top with the national leader, it began with work and ended in a relationship, we had the same age and he was single again like me. But in that not very nice way I had to get aware that it was only about himself and his image and not about ideals and yoga.
With him it went all upside down, because he was on the top. It was about yoga and yogis are our friends, but as he was no friend, but an actor, it didn't last long and it all went upside down. It seemed kind of amazing how he was in the inner view removed by the light later, much later, not being a yogi. Before he was even personal staff of the yogi and had the image of being serious and advanced and very good. As actor he was no more in the scene.

But it took time and therefore, it was a long time not possible to realize that all appeared as enemies because he was no friend. He was the leader, if he was not okay all appeared in that light. It was no fun on the top to get aware of that.
 

In the inner view everything broke in pieces, like thin glass in the air and it was like beautiful sunshine, it means in that light the breaking in peaces didn't make sense, it was hidden, it was in consciousness only and it could not be seen and it was kind of not understandable. Also that reason was there in the inner view, all seemed to be puppets on a string and the hand was not there which should have been there holding them.

That was probably the explanation why everything went upside down, because he should have been the leader, but there was something wrong. He was just an actor and that means he wanted to be in his role and approved and applauded by everybody and that is not the right attitude for a yogi, that was just ego and mind and he was no friend, yogis are our friends, that means no ego and no mind.

After a course, going back to the TM-center, as center leader at that time, I hoped everything would be fine again, but it just makes clear that we had no idea about the reality of insights.

Being with Baba afterwards, he was in my dream, he was the insight and the next step. It was present in the inner view as two different Baba, one insight, and one the next step, if I would have known that during the TM-time, I would have set priorities differently. But not being aware of the insight value as the highest, it was not possible to understand it right or to set priorities right.
Nevertheless, it said we should go for the highest first, it would have been no question that anything could be seen differently and changed, if we would have been aware of it. There was no knowledge on that level, just about meditation. If it is inner view, there is no possibility that it can be changed, because that was the level of the highest and not to work with the national leader, who proved afterwards that he was no yogi.

 

But as we were not aware of it, we went back to the center still in the hope that everything would be fine again, as we were meditating we were told that we would be able to solve problems like that and even if it said, 'highest first', we projected it on an outside level and didn't know how to understand the insights right, there was no right discrimination.

Back in the center hoping there would be an explanation for all of it, one day was in meditation a big black hole. It was that scary, in the meditation it felt too personal and therefore, it was not just easy anymore, but dangerous. It felt like danger to lose the mind or to die of that big tiredness. 
We had no knowledge about 'inner view'. There was also no knowledge about God and it didn't make sense and even worse, we were cut off from getting right answers, because TM was taught as technique only and in that technique system was no possibility to ask more questions, they were all answered with - just meditate and all problems will be solved, even thought, it was not right.
And because they thought that was the solution to all problems, there were no questions, but an apparent harmony and everybody enforced it, they all believed it was the solution to ultimate happiness and they made each other feel good in that believe. In a way it was true in another it was not, but they looked at it only as true.

That is how I got in touch with Baba. I got some vibuthi, holy ash and put it on my tongue during meditation and there was a very fine feeling, it went directly in the heart and there he was a tiny dark blue form of divinity. It was an amazing insight and the next step was to go and see him.

But first I went with the National Leader to Maharishi, he was in Noida at that time and I still hopped everything would get fine again, because I was too established in that TM-movement to just leave.
I didn't like the idea to start new again that is also why I got that tired realizing that all was upside down.
But it went on like that. Afterwards sitting in the hall, the Maharishi in front of us, he appeared like the bad guy and not the leader, but it didn't make sense, it was upside down, Tamas, the leader was no leader and no yogi, but an actor who was just interested in getting applauded by everybody and of course, that I left afterwards and went to Baba, that arranged him not at all, indirectly it put him in question.
No wonder he engaged himself only three months later after I had left with just someone, just to give the impression that I left and it was my fault and my doing and not his, because nobody knew the experiences and insights which went ahead. It was again upside down, Tamas and that felt not good in the light of yoga and friends and Sathva, it was the opposite.
He was not interested in the ideals or yoga, only in himself and his role in the movement. It was not true that TM made him more intelligent and that he should be able to take better decisions, he was a traitor not only for me, but also for yoga and the master, who said, he had to work with people he had.
So it felt like everything was excused and he could do whatever he wanted.  
He was not interested in the ideal, but only that everybody believed that he did everything right, even though it went everything wrong with him. That was the reality I met on the top with the national leader.

 

The sound of these mantras has the power to transform the impulses and tendencies. The word mantra means 'that which saves when turned over in the mind'. Repeating the mantra constantly in the mind will keep off wild talk, purposeless conversation, aimless gossip and scandal.

 

TM also said that with meditation we get more intelligent and use more of the inner potential and can solve our problems a better way because it improves our understanding. That was true for meditation, but it didn't change the leader's attitude and being on the top and seeing it as it really was, my motivation and trust went fast down the drain. Trust was gone.

I didn't know where to look for the mistake, because it was all upside down.
The feeling of friendship was still present, but it was not in the Maharishi, the yogi, who is our real friend, but it was in the leader and it was not, because being in a relationship with him in no time all turned around upside down and that was difficult to understand, no friends, but enemies.

My trust gone I put OM in front of the TM Mantra, but we don't use those mantras with OM, but I just did it for safety reasons, because it felt all that upside down, I didn't know how to understand it, what was right and what was wrong. The inner master said that it was all the same with those people, we had no case, because they don't take any responsibility. It was the same already with the TM-teacher I went into it and I wanted to do the teacher's training, because he seemed to be a soulmate and I went ahead because I thought it was the right thing to do. We had agreed that I should to the teacher's training to go and initiate with him afterwards, but he forgot to tell that I should do it in French only to be able to initiate with him and afterwards it was too late to change it.

It means it was the same like the national leader, going for his own advantage only and not really caring for truth and character, finding excuses, it means we cannot believe them.

But we meditated regularly and were focused on going inside and on TM as long as it lasted. It began with a lie and not with truth and with deception and not being friends and it went on like that, so what to expect?

The insights were not only the result, but we had to face the reality that it was not true and not real. They talked about truth, but in their actions they did the opposite and it was never about truth, but just acting and outside it was something else, the kiss of death for yoga.

Yoga is about reality and truth and being good and friendship and principles we have to know and respect and that was not there at all. It was based on falsehood and blindness. 
Whatever they taught, they didn't live it and it was not true, it made them also not more intelligent. They were not able to take better decisions or to look ahead and know that it would have results and in the end we just harm ourselves, that much intelligence was not in TM. And as that was definitely not the case, it would have been very stupid to trust again.

I had experienced it not only once, but twice, the two people closest during that TM-time, no friends and no yogis. Real stupid to go on like that ... They thought they could go on and it would not have consequences?

That is not intelligent, they don't know Karma.
Using TM to tell fairy tales to others and a lost charm and no reality. It didn't work, it was all a lie in the end. 
Part of it was that they didn't know what they are doing, puppets on a string and the hand was not there which should hold them. It was also a matter of character and taking advantage of, they were hypocrites.

And the TM teacher who inspired me to go for it was the same level, that is why the inner master said, 'they are all the same, we have no case'.

That created such heavy problems, to understand it, because it was Tamas, upside down. And they just think and tell, it was not meant to be, not realizing what had happened and how screwed up it was and even tell, this time it will be much better. Thank you no, we would have to be fools to believe it. 

They made out of everybody who trusts fools, no case means there is no character, because they avoid it telling it was Karma or it should not be at that time ... and everything will be better now and as I asked questions, I got only one answer, he didn't understand it. 
Bad luck, if he doesn't. That doesn't make him more intelligent and he practices that TM technique for nearly all his life and it does not make it better, does it?

 

The subtle effect of mantras (mystic formulae) mentioned in the Vedas cannot be seen or heard by the senses; they have to be experienced in and through the inner consciousness, the Anthahkarana.

 

It was there, it was present that subtle effect of mantras, no doubt, that is why we got all those insights, only it was not as it should have been.

Yogis are our friends and there are those, who just take advantage of it and make it turn into the opposite and that are not our friends, but hidden enemies.

And they are also not the friends of yoga, because they destroy the work done by the Master and go against the teaching. It destroys not only the ideal of truth and yoga, but also their own self, they are just not aware of it.
And as the hand is not there, which should hold them, they are only puppets on a string, there is nobody making them aware of it.

But with Baba it is different. He is inside present and in dreams and he is the man coming in our dreams to wake us, there is inside guidance, but we still have to understand it right and experience the depth of that teaching and the beauty in it, deeper we go, more we find the truth, the light and beauty in it.