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Japa
Anyone who has had contact with Mother Meera knows of the importance
Mother gives to Japa. From the book 'Answers' Mother says the following:
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Japa is essential..........each divine name is full of divine vibrations.
These surround us and protect us and penetrate both our bodies and our
whole inner being. Rememberance of the divine name gives immediate peace
and happiness and turns us from the worldly to the Divine.........This
japa helps us to purify our consciousness and make our sadhana
easy.........In doing japa, one should not strain or try to achieve
something specific. One should try to be sincere and to have love of God.
The power immediately follows, whether you are aware of it or not.
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To verify what Mother has said, consider this analysis of japa found in
the book 'Ramakrishna and His Disciples' by Christopher Isherwood:
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In these days of commercial and political propaganda which makes use of
subliminal indoctrination and the hypnotic repition of slogans, it should
no longer be necessary to prove, even to an atheist, that japa is
effective. If a television advertisement can so permeate the
consciousness of a community that the little children sing it in the
streets - if some demonstrable lie about a neighbouring country can, by
being repeated often enough, drive a whole nation war mad - then how dare
anyone proclaim that the repetition of the name and idea of God will have
no effect upon the individual who practises it ? We are creatures of
reverie, not of reason. We spend a very small proportion of our time
thinking logical, consecutive thoughts. It is within the reverie that our
passions and prejudices - often so terrible in their consequences - build
themselves up, almost unnoticed, out of slogans, newspaper headlines,
chance words of fear and greed and hate, which have slipped into our
consciousness through our unguarded eyes and ears. Our reverie expresses
what we are, at any given moment. The mantra, by introducing God into the
reverie, must produce profound subliminal changes. These may not be
apparent for some time, but, sooner or later, they will inevitably appear
- first in the prevailing mood and disposition of the individual; then in
a gradual change of character.
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Om Jai Ma !
John
