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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.
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Mantra shakti
I do not believe a mantra can change the physical con-
sciousness. What it does, if it is effective, is to open the con-
sciousness and to bring into it the power of that which the
mantra rep-resents.
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There is such a thing as mantra-shakti; but it acts only on cer-
tain conditions.

Om as mantra
OM is the mantra, the expressive sound-symbol of the
Brahman Consciousness in its four domains from the Turiya
to the external or material plane. The function of a mantra is
to create vibrations in the inner consciousness that will pre-
pare it for the realisation of what the mantra symbolises and is
supposed indeed to carry within itself. The mantra OM should
therefore lead towards the opening of the consciousness to
the sight and feeling of the One Consciousness in all material
things, in the inner being and in the supraphysical worlds, in the
causal plane above now superconscient to us and, finally, the
supreme liberated transcendence above all cosmic existence.
The last is usually the main preoccupation with those who use
the mantra.
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