Mantra

The scientific use of sound to effect consciousness is called mantra. "Man" means mind. "Tra" means to tune the vibration (just as one tunes the strings of a guitar Mantra is a sound current which tunes and controls mental vibration. It is the "directive psyche", a word or words, combinations of syllables, which help focus the mind. Such words have enormous power.

What does it mean to master a mantra?

When you have repeated it so much, so often, and so well that you hear it within your being, and it comes handy to you - especially at the moment of death - you have mastered a mantra.

Claims for mantras may seem like miracles, but mantras are actually formulas that work according to physical and metaphysical laws. Repeating a mantra structures the patterns in the mind that allow experience. Silence makes you aware of the many experiences in the mind.

Meditate on the Gurmantra "Waheguru"

Sir cross legged. Pull your spine straight. Have no tension in any part of your body. Concentrate as deeply as possible (optional: root of the nose between the two eyebrows) and mentally vibrate the mantra Waheguru, which means "ecstasy in the Light of the Lord which takes you away from darkness". When you chant, it must be broken into 4 atomic dimensions: Wha-he-gu-ru.

Wha - Infinity
He - The presence of the finite in infinity
Gu - Darkness
Ru - Light

Comments:

The real value of a meditation is not just to have an experience of energy or to be able to say you have done it, but to experience a continual flow of light from your inner self that transforms your behaviour patterns to your day to day living.

The essential beauty of this meditation is that it stops the constant intellectual flow and the mind becomes empty. It is a very quick way of achieving the state of thoughtlessness, and the moment your achieve it the only thoughts may be the place and sounds you are concentrating on.