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14^th July 2022

Now I repeat my mantras when I walk, run, drive & even at times when sleeping. If I’m the slightest bit conscious, I can be connected to at least one simple mantra sound. Dreams can present with enough conscious intrusion at times to enable me to get mantra sounds into to the dream, using a mantra according to what’s happening, just as I do when engaged with the external awake day world. I consider most of my dreams as just rubbish or nonsense to be discarded. I don’t have anything I need to get from them, nor workout something from them, nor understand them. I already know what I need to get in life, what to work out about life, and what I need to understand about the external life.

Thus, my mantra use is a bridge. It’s a bridge when I’m driving a car, it’s a bridge when I’m at the gym, and it’s making life much clearer. It’s easier when I’m just sitting in meditation, but it matters not; what or where, when all the circumstance is the same: Life & the Universe

I need just the bridge from a cloudy understanding such as in dream states, & some life events, to what life is in Truth. A crystal clear awareness that all activity and form is just variation within the Consciousness. (I am being then as in the “witness” of all states. The mantra takes me to the consciousness which is one with the Cosmic Consciousness or my personal Deity. Then away from a delusional attachment, or other understanding about what we humans consider to be a reality.

That’s all it is, whatever is happening, whatever viewpoint any one has. You can even accept if so inclined, see all life as evolution, evolving us from monkeys to humans. We may well be just advanced monkeys, but as far as I’m concerned there is a complete “other dimension” that encompasses humans and everything else in the universe, and that is where we find our God/Goddess/Higher Power or Brahman. That other dimension is from where all our known Divine incarnations have come. We have seen, or rather ancient humans have seen, supposedly human forms in incarnation appearance. Incarnations such as Jesus, the Buddha or Krishna etc., (depending on your religion).

The sound of the mantras connect me to the sound of each and every aspect of life, and that is why I have different mantras to adjust me not just to the Truth within, but also to assist transcendent of all events, activities, or physical/mental components of existence. The sounds of different mantras may seem complex as there is such variety. Hover all the sounds of mantras coalesce because the mantra trails off into a final subtle sound. This is seen with the “M” sound, (coming out as a mmmm sound), which occurs at the end of Om or seed mantras such as Hriim. Other mantas will also tap into this “cosmic” sound, albeit a bit more indirectly, or subtly. All mantra sounds eventually coalesce into the one sound which is the “soundless” Cosmic Sound. Mantra sound & all other sounds are then transcended after having served a purpose as a spiritual aid for the spiritual journey.

What is the transcendent sound? It is “heard” or Realized, when one understands not only the Cosmic sound, but also all the sounds associated with all the different components of Life and the Universe. Indescribable therefore as it has to be experienced. Yes, there seems to be a duality here, when one view is that there is no real separation of the Atman with Brahman. (As per Vedanta philosophy). Why do we need to bridge a gap that doesn’t exist (In the Vedanta view)? Plus there seems to be many things going on with mantra, that are to inexplicable & complex. Just like real life then! Life is the same with its many people being born and dying and living at any given time. We are in a world, and we do seek our salvation. Or rather some of us seek escape from the suffering of

Samsara. We no longer want to be going round and round in life subject to emotions and thoughts, and reactivity, or addictions and obsessions.

Because we have this search in our hearts or rather in our mental sentiments we have an inner renunciate attitude. We don’t find pleasure in a lot of things that others are obsessed about. We don’t see the point of myriad TV shows about no particular values. Nor some aspects of so called social life expressed in Facebook and other distractions. No real intrinsic value here! Only the spiritual search then has value, only our Deity has meaning, whether that be the impersonal God, Cosmic Consciousness. or the Deity of a personal religion such as Christianity or Buddhism.

Then we see the ocean of sorrow & suffering that all beings are immersed ins what we see, & that may what leads potentially to an external wish to renunciation with such as monastic type vows. I did become a monk for a while but now see that it is the renunciation embedded in the individual soul, which is the true stance that has meaning that then leads to the practical efforts on this spiritual journey. The garb of the monk then has very little purpose, only that in the past it was a route out of everyday living in villages and towns. (And into the hermitage, ashram or monastery). We don’t have this now, so we have to do things differently in regards to being successful on our spiritual path.

With the correct mantra, or other techniques such as meditation practice, we can still achieve the aims and goals that we have in mind. We can then live in the world or out of it, or anywhere of our choosing, or anywhere that we happen to be. It won’t be an obstacle to the spiritual condition. It won’t stop or block our path to the individual attainment of moving into level six or even level seven of spiritual status. (As far as attainment of Realisation and Enlightenment is concerned).

It will be additionally: Realistic Realization & Practical Enlightenment.

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