This blog brings us to the end of Part One

One finalk question for this part:

What am I experiencing in Truth?

This leads us to:

Being in your special place and doing your special meditation

(The “final stage” Meditation exercise)

What I do!

My “final stage” Meditation exercise

I give you here an example –my example. What I do.

You can use this “method”, or anything you like. I don’t practice my “final meditation” any other way. There may be some parts here that you can adopt or modify to suit.

I use Mantras.

A mantra such as Om Guru Om can be used immediately. Guru means “going from darkness to light”, and this mantra repetition enables the reception of the inner guidance. Such guidance comes from the Inner Guru, which can be accessed to get “initiation” of other meditation practices. Om Guru Om is a benign mantra with no after-effects, other than receiving sobering thoughts and guidance. Becoming aware of one’s previous negative activities is spiritually “good”. It turns the mind to good intent and practice.

The Divine Presence/Higher Power/Inner Deity is within and without. A mantra is the Presence as a sound. Your personal method choice may be found from a knowledgeable guide, but this is not always true.

Repetition is the key to this type of meditation practice – the more the netter.

One key purpose of mantra energy is to bypass depression or other mental stumbling blocks. Because you bypass it, there is then a cure or a remedy for low mood, negative perception and depleted energy. You are in your Higher Rooms where the light leaves behind the darkness. It’s a refuge and a “go to” for any problem, and it alleviates the need for “running away”.

A mantra’s power is very interesting because it’s the distilled sound of Life and the Universe. (My term for “everything”). It’s not just being Transcendental. It’s that, and connection to any experience, no matter what. You become Transcendental in your spiritual approach to life first, and then you also swap darkness for light – the Inner Guide.

Mantra additional purpose is to connect the soul via mind, body, and your environment, to allow understanding of positive and negative experiences as aligned with a spiritual awareness. This is when you understand Kali Yuga – the age of destruction, or the “dark age”. This is the world we are in. Lots of wars, famines, and suffering on a global scale. This world may sever our ego, because as person realises that “all life is suffering”, we may want to transcend it all.

Guides will seem to come to you, but are already present in you.

There is a view that the chanting of mantras is a practice to help focus the mind.

However this view is a very partial perspective.

A mantra of any power exists in a totally different dimension to the mind.

It is a syllable, word, and sound that relates to a particular state of consciousness that, whilst related to mind, (and body), emanates from a soul or spirit source.

For instance to use the word OM or AUM as a mantra, is to identify on a subtle plane with the Cosmic Consciousness, which leads from darkness to light, from ignorance to knowledge..

Om, is the spiritual word for and sound of the Universe, and the practitioner, (who meditates on OM), becomes immersed in a sense of being at the centre of all life & light. Thus to meditate with this mantra, the best effect occurs with visualisation of journeying out of the body, beyond  the city, the country, the solar system, the galaxy, and so forth. (A continuation would be that of ascending to the Cosmic Centre).

Then Samadhi occurs.

This position at or within this Centre is the deepest form of meditation, (called Samadhi).

However to think that the human consciousness then cannot exist is not quite correct. For instance in deep sleep it seems that the individual does not exist, yet on awakening all awareness comes back again.

In a further development of the Samadhi state the seeker needs then to find the Centre within the human “heart”, which is not the physical one.

The universe in its essential essence then becomes more entwined in the seekers experience of human life.

Then awareness of one’s True Self becomes a stronger component of daily life experience.

OM is not specific to female/male energy.

This is the sound of the universe, the Cosmic Soul that transcends everything. Traditionally it enhances focus on the formless, transcendent to the world and human life. Using it on its own one can achieve awareness or knowledge of the formless God/Higher Power/Cosmic Consciousness.

OM or AUM has always been associated with the third eye or the spot between the eyebrows. It is also connected to the Crown Chakra, especially when the sound “trails off” into a long “Mmm”. Practitioners of OM chanting may wish to focus on the final drawn out “M” sound of OM, trailing out of the crown and then out to the ether.

OM is thus the most well know and expansive of the seed mantras as it leads into the “soundless” space, to formless Samadhi. (Deepest meditation without thought forms). It can cause energy to surge upward and outward beyond the body. It is a domain where there is a subtle vibration that signifies the Transcendental Divinity. Om proceeds from deep down in the body at the level of the stomach and moves upwards. The M sound moves into a subtle vibration and ends with that which is one with the Cosmic Sound.

A mantra could be merely supplementary to other practices, or used as the key practice, and also to achieve any other outcome that is sought. Sound produces forms through its vibrations, and the repetition of a particular sound brings forth awareness of both the form that is meditated on and the purification that is sought. The mantra can also be a refuge. Its repetition can allow release or escape from certain difficult mental problems or thoughts, and move the minds focus to a more healthy location. Constant repetition over a long period can enable a shift from a deep-seated negative personal perspective towards the higher planes of light and energy.

The mantra is of course traditionally a spiritual word. Other mantras are the names of ones preferred Deity. There are a plethora of mantras in Buddhism, untold numbers in Hinduism, and under a different schema many such uses of sacred words in other religions.

OM is considered to be the most important mantra, and longer mantras generally begin with OM.

That’s it – that’s what I do!