Mantra

Mantram
Mantram and statements on them from the teachings of Djwhal Khul:

85 //Mantric Sounds//. A mantram is a combination of sounds, of words and of phrases that, through virtue of certain rhythmic effects, achieve results that would not be possible apart from them. The most sacred of all the Eastern mantrams given out as yet to the public is the one embodied in the words: "Om mani padme hum." Every syllable of this phrase has a secret potency, and its totality has seven meanings and can bring about seven different results.

There are various mantric forms, based upon this formula and upon the Sacred Word, which, sounded rhythmically and in different keys, accomplish certain desired ends, such as the invoking of protective angels or devas, and definite work, either constructive or destructive upon the planes. The potency of a mantram depends upon the point in evolution of the man who employs it. Uttered by an ordinary man it serves to stimulate the good within his bodies, to protect him, and it will also prove of beneficent influence upon his environment. Uttered by an adept or initiate its possibilities for good are infinite and far-reaching. Mantrams are of many kinds, and generally speaking might be enumerated as follows: All these mantrams depend for their potency upon the sound and rhythm and upon the syllabic emphasis imparted to them when enunciating and intoning. They depend too upon the capacity of the man who uses them to visualize and to //will// the desired effect. ~This quote from ???? is found on TOCF, p 926
 * 1) Some very esoteric mantrams, existing in the original Sensa, in the custody of the Great White Lodge.
 * 2) Some Sanskrit mantrams employed by initiates and adepts.
 * 3) Mantrams connected with the different rays.
 * 4) Mantrams used in healing.
 * 5) Mantrams used in the departments of either the Manu, the Bodhisattva, or the Mahachohan.
 * 6) Mantrams used in connection with the devas and the elemental kingdoms.
 * 7) Special mantrams connected with fire.

Speech is literally a great magical force, and the adepts or white magicians, through knowledge of the forces and power of silence and of speech, can produce effects upon the physical plane. As we well know, there is a branch of magical work which consists in the utilization of this knowledge in the form of Words of Power and of those mantrams and formulae which set in motion the hidden energies of nature and call the devas to their work. ~TOCF, p 981

Words of Power, ancient mantrams (such as the Lord's Prayer) and the Great Invocation are only effective if used upon the mental plane and with the power of a controlled mind - focused on their intent and meaning - behind the spoken effort. They then become potent. When said with the power of the soul as well as with the directed attention of the mind, they automatically become dynamically effective. ~EOH, p 144

I would like to give you a special formula or //mantram// and I have chosen the following phrases to be repeated by you whenever you choose: "I am a messenger of Light. I am a pilgrim on the way of love. I do not walk alone but know myself as one with all great souls, and one with them in service. Their strength is mine. This strength I claim. My strength is theirs and this I freely give. A soul, I walk on earth. I represent the ONE." ~DINA I, p 140, words to F.C.D.

For you, too, today I have a //mantram// which may be of service: "Joy settles as a bird within the heart but has winged its way from the secret place within the head. I am that bird of joy. Therefore, with joy I serve." ~DINA I, p 158, words to J.W.K.-P.

 Again I would ask you to watch your health but principally - in these days of strain and of difficulty - your astral health. Will you say each day the following mantram: "Within the circle of the will of God, I stand. Without the radius of the world of glamor, I take my place And there I stand. Before the open door that just reveals a different lighted //way// I take my stand. Before the //presence// I will take my place and there will firmly stand. And standing, see." 

Three words stand out in this mantram and to them I will call your attention; the //way//, the //presence// and //sight//. ~DINA I p 223, words to I.S.G.-L.

The mantram which I have chosen for you is intended to embody a statement of your life purpose. It is as follows: "I know the Law and towards the goal I strive. Naught shall arrest my progress on the Way. Each tiny life within my form responds. My soul has sounded forth that call and clearer day by day it sounds. The glamor holds me not. The Path of Light streams clear ahead. My plea goes forth to reach the hearts of men. I seek, I cry to serve your need. Give me your hand and tread the Path with me." ~DINA I p 265, words to R.V.P.

Add the mantram I earlier gave you: "I am the Way myself, the door am I. I am the golden Path and in the light of my own light I tread that Way. I enter through the door. I turn and radiate the light. ~DINA I p 305, words to D.L.R.

Say the mantram of the Disciples Degree: "May the energy of the divine self inspire me and the light of the soul direct. May I be led from darkness to light, from the unreal to the real, from death to immortality." ~DINA I, p 306, words to D.L.R.

The sons of men are one and I am one with them. I seek to love, not hate; I seek to serve and not exact due service; I seek to heal, not hurt. Let pain bring due reward of light and love. Let the soul control the outer form and life and all events, And bring to light the love which underlies the happenings of the time. Let vision come and insight. Let the future stand revealed. Let inner union demonstrate and outer cleavages be gone. Let love prevail. Let all men love. ~DINA II, p 117, Teachings on Meditation
 * 1) Then say with //heartfelt intent// (consider the significance of those two words) the invocation which I gave you in my communication in September, 1939:

Repeat thoughtfully the mantram which eventually leads to the realization of unity. ~DINA II, p 123, Teachings on Meditation

This mantram is peculiarly and essentially Christ's own mantram and its //"sound// has gone forth" to the entire world through the medium of his enunciation of it and through its use by the Hierarchy. ~DINA II, p 173, Teaching on Meditation, Speaking of the Great Invocation

The interpreters of the Gospel and many disciples of the Christian dispensation have singularly failed to grasp this revelation; they have laid the emphasis upon the death of the personality, whereas when Christ experienced the "great void of darkness" and chanted aloud the occult mantram " My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me ," he was recognizing simultaneously the distinction between his "robe of glory" (symbolized by the partition of his garment by the Roman soldiery) and also calling the attention of all future disciples and initiates to the disappearance of the "middle principle," the soul; he was projecting (into the world consciousness) the recognition which must come of relation to the Father or the Monad. ~DINA II, p 258, Teaching on Initiation  Endeavor to use the following formula or mantram every day. It is a modernized and mystically worded version of the one which was used widely in Atlantean days during the period of the ancient conflict of which the present is an effect. For many of you this mantram will be in the nature of a recovery of an old and well-known form of words: "The sons of men are one and I am one with them. I seek to love not hate: I seek to serve and not exact due service. I seek to heal, not hurt.

"Let pain bring due reward of light and love. Let the soul control the outer form and life and all events, and bring to light the love which underlies the happenings of the time. Let vision come and insight; let the future stand revealed. Let inner union demonstrate and outer cleavages be gone. Let love prevail. Let all men love."  ~EOH, p 142

Today, however, there are those in every land who are rapidly becoming aware of the soul as a controlling factor in consciousness, who respond to world affairs and conditions increasingly as souls, and who can, therefore, be trained to work upon the physical plane. When this is so, it becomes possible to impart certain of these Words of Power and mantrams and to institute that new and potent activity which will bring the Hierarchy and Humanity into conscious and direct cooperation, as well as Shamballa and certain great Forces which are interplanetary or solar, and also great cosmic Energies. ~EOH, p 149

You will now see a little of the occult objective which lay behind the words which I asked you all to repeat in connection with the Great Invocation:

// We know, O Lord of Life and Love, about the need; Touch our hearts anew with love, that we too may love and give. //

It is this thought of the free circulation of energy between the three world centers which motivates this mantric sentence. A study of this will show you how the implication and significance of apparently simple words may be far deeper and far more wide-reaching in effect than you have been able to conceive. A recognition of this and a creative impassioned use of the imagination may serve to add greater potency to your thought and to your personal will-to-good as you use the Great Invocation and its subsidiary mantram. The keynote of the first aspect is Sacrifice, and of the second, Love. The words therefore "that we too may love and give" can produce a contact between the two. ~EOH, p 154

There and at that time, the three Representatives of Shamballa within the Hierarchy - the Manu, the Christ and the Mahachohan - invoke the Buddha, Who in His turn is the transmitter of still higher Forces. He is invoked by a special mantram and transmits the appeal to the One Whose agent He is. ~EOH, p 160 [Speaking of Wesak]

I give you now another set of phrases which can (if rightly used) invoke the Forces of the Divine Will on to the side of the Forces of Light. It is not easy to give an adequate translation or paraphrase of this power-mantram, nor is it easy to step it down sufficiently so that it can be safely used by all, yet at the same time preserve its challenging, dynamic quality. ~EOH, p 248

It was the need to give a constructive trend and to focus the invoked energies which led me, under instruction from the Hierarchy, to give out - at widely separated points of time - two Stanzas or parts of a great occult mantram, the first one to help focus the aspirants from whom it met with full response; the second was also offered to the masses, but was intended to be a test and a "decision in a time of crisis," hence made its appeal to the mentally focused aspirants and disciples. ~EOH, p 338

The Buddha will start the process at the time of His appearance, through the use of a great first ray mantram. This can be used only by someone of His initiate standing and in collaboration with the Lord of the World. ~EOH, p 438

First, //at the time of the May Full Moon,// the Buddha will sound out a great mantram and become the "absorbing Agent" of the first ray force. ~EOH, p 439

I would again call your attention to the fact that the evocative power of the Great Invocation (now used by so many hundreds of thousands) and the //sound// of its mantric rhythm is increasingly responsible for this work; a great deal of the resultant effectiveness is due to the fact that humanity is using this mantram in steadily increasing numbers, and this - combined with its scientific use by the Hierarchy - is very fruitful in results. It is well here to bear in mind that (to quote an old sentence by one of the Masters) //"where the focus is, so will be the anchorage where descending potencies under mantric inspiration are concerned." ~EOH, p 659//

 ..."the chief agency by which Nature's wheel is moved in a phenomenal direction is //sound.// Sound is the first aspect of the manifested pentagon since it is a property of ether called Akas and as I already said Vedic recitation is the highest Yagnam containing in itself all minor Yagnams and tending to preserve the manifested pentagon in the proper order. In the opinion of our old philosophers sound or speech is next to thought the highest karmic agent used by man.

Of the various karmic agencies wielded by man in the way of molding himself and surroundings, sound or speech is the most important, for, to speak is to work in ether which of course rules the lower quaternary of elements, air, fire, water and earth. Human sound or language contains therefore all the elements required to move the different classes of Devas and those elements are of course the vowels and the consonants. The details of the philosophy of sound in its relation to the devas who preside over the subtle world, belong to the domain of true Mantra Sastra which of course is in the hands of the knowers." - //Some Thoughts on the Gita//, p. 72.

//Fourth//, the fourth method of transference of consciousness, and the bringing of the life units under the focal power of a Lord of a Ray, can be brought about through knowledge of certain mantrams and formulae. On this we may not enlarge as these mantrams are esoteric and the use of them is fraught with much danger to the uninitiated. ~TOCF, p 366

//Forms//. The //Atharva Veda,// as the summation, instructs us in the principles which equally underlie the methods of the World-process, and of the atom-process - a world in miniature. Whether 'World-process' or 'atom-process' - depends on the speaker and his point of view. As every mantra of this Veda reflects the operations of the World-process, so does it reveal to us cognition within cognition, memory within memory, power within power, world within world, fact within fact, action within action, duty within duty, sin within sin, individuality within individuality, ascending and descending from every point in space, endlessly, ceaselessly. Atoms make up molecules, molecules compounds, compounds cells, cells tissues, tissues organs, organs bodies, bodies communities; communities classes and races; classes and races kingdoms; kingdoms of many grades and varied linkings make up a planet, planets make up a solar system, solar systems a vaster system, and so on, unending; nowhere is found simplicity indivisible; nowhere complexity final. All is relative. - From //Pranava-vada, pp.// 334-335.

51 They have in India an ancient system of psychical teaching called Yoga, in which the recitation of certain mantrams, or verses of Sanskrit, is prescribed. Especially important is said to be the way in which the mystical syllable Om, or Aum, is pronounced. Learned Brahmans tell me that the illimitable psychic potentiality of the Sanskrit charms, or mantrams is only drawn out by the adoption of a certain very accurate rule of pronunciation (swara). They say that by formulating the words correctly a vibration is set up in the akaz, or that part of the ether of space which enwraps our globe, which makes man the master over all the spirit denizens of the various kingdoms of nature. It first reacts upon the astral double or ethereal body of the man himself, purifying its grossness, stimulating its psychic powers out of the normal state of latency, and gradually fortifying them up to the point of mastery over nature's finer forces. - //The Theosophist//, Vol. XIII, pp. 229, 613. "The primal single sound (Aum or Om) is the highest uttered word of power and knowledge. It is verily as Brahman itself. The regulation of the breath is the chiefest tapas-discipline. Higher than the Savitri is no mantra. Higher than silence is truth. The Creator stored the veritable essences of the Three Vedas in the three letters that make up the Sacred Word, in the three utterances that name and form the three worlds, and in the three parts of the veda-verse that invokes the sun. Each part He milked from one Veda. Whoso ponders on these, morning and evening, after having learnt the Vedas previously, he verily studies the whole of the Vedas every day. These are the gateway unto Brahman. By repeated dwelling on their significance, and tuning his desire and modeling his thought to that significance, the seeker after Brahman shall, without fail, attain all perfection, whether he discharge any other duty or not; for the very name of the Brahmana is 'the friend of All creatures' (and the Gayatri is the prayer for the blessing of all creatures by our radiant Father in Heaven, the Sun)." - //Unknown//. There are specific formulae, known to all initiates of a certain grade (and even to many who have not attained that grade, a number have become known and are used - sometimes in ways that result in no good to the insufficiently instructed user), some one or other of which is specially adapted to produce nearly every possible effect that can be imagined... Well may Isis Unveiled (p. 514) tell us that 'sounds and colors' are all spiritual numerals; nor is that all, for odors, metals and planets are equally spiritual numerals. Each planet (or spiritual plane) has relation to a metal and a color. These again are in corelation with a corresponding odor and sound. The sphere of aura that surrounds every human being has one very important 'fold' or 'layer', which invariably bears the color of the metal and planet to which that particular individual has most affinity - and it is on this layer that the magnetic part of odors and all sound vibrations impinges. - //The Theosophist//, Vol. VII, p. 218.

Owing to the recognition by man of the value of mantrams, and his gradual comprehension of the true ceremonial of evolution, coupled with the use of sound and color, the animal kingdom will be better understood, and better trained, considered and utilized. ~TOCF, p 463

Indication only is possible; it is not permissible here to give out the transmutative formulas, or the mantrams that manipulate the matter of space. ~TOCF, p 481

//The Egoic Lotus// "...the laws of karma are adjusted, the clue being found in the mastery of the sixteen rays of the Ego, for which sixteen rays, sixteen mantras or words are given, the real pronunciation being however reserved for initiates only." - //Kali Upanishad//.

The appearance of the Great Lord on the astral plane (whether followed by His physical incarnation or not) will date from a certain Wesak festival at which a mantram (known only to those attaining the seventh Initiation) will be pronounced by the Buddha, thus setting loose force, and enabling His great Brother to fulfil his mission. ~TOCF, p 756

Each Identity concerned proceeds to sound a WORD. This sound expands into a mantram and the solar angels vibrate in response. ~TOCF, p 771 & continues over the next several pages



