THE MYSTIC MANTRA

The Ishta Mantra is potent. The Guru imparts power to it at the time of initiation. Besides, these mystic formulae were discovered by the Rishis of yore in their spiritual realizations and were cognized as being potent at source. Also, these seed words (beej mantra) acquired added potency through their repetition over thousands of years by spiritual aspirants whose mind-force enlivened them. Thus, a person who has been graced by his Guru with the holy name, the mystic syllable or the seed word needs to consider himself fortunate for he has been granted the key to attaining his liberation in this very life by reverential repetition of the mantra. He must on no account fail to chant the mantra regularly with utmost love and reverence for in it lies his highest good. The Guru or the spiritual preceptor is the one that unconditionally showers his love on the shishya or the disciple. There is no barter there. It is pure, unsullied love fraught with the highest benediction. The Guru seeks nothing in return for his tremendous act of taking upon himself the sins of the disciple at the time of spiritual initiation save that his spiritual child may attain to spiritual illumination one day. He patiently waits for that blessed moment and all along keeps clearing the way for his arrival there by removing the obstacles, the hindrances that lie on the path. Eventually, on the blessed day the Guru appears before the disciple in his supreme spiritual splendour before merging in the Divine who is the Chosen Ideal of the disciple. The disciple is sublimated in consciousness by the effulgence of the Divine before him before he is absorbed in its radiance and transported to the realm of freedom, immortality and perfection. The Guru and the disciple are now no more separate as they are both merged in the Divine. The triune are an inseparable whole. The mantra has met its mystic end. Now no more chanting, no more meditation, just eternal union. Jai Guru! Jai Ramakrishna! Om!