Chapter 19Mantra and Japa · Mantras

in the Veda that they had the Truth by vision and inspiration, “truth-hearing seers”, kavayah. satya´srutah. — Veda is ´sruti got by inner hearing.

* When one repeats a mantra regularly, very often it begins to repeat itself within, which means that it is taken up by the inner being. In that way it is more effective.

* It [the effect of japa] depends on the way in which the japa is done.

If rightly done, the mantra is a means of opening to the light and knowledge etc. from above and it ceases as soon as that is done.

* I do not believe a mantra can change the physical consciousness. What it does, if it is effective, is to open the consciousness and to bring into it the power of that which the mantra represents.

* There is such a thing as mantra-shakti; but it acts only on certain conditions.