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How Japa Organises the Consciousness
Q: But for us who want an integral realisation, are all these man-
tras and this daily japa really a help, or do they also shut us in?

It gives discipline. It’s an almost subconscious discipline of
the character more than of thought. ...
It’s an almost physical discipline. Moreover, I have seen that
the japa has an organizing effect on the subconscient, on the
inconscient, on matter, on the body’s cells — it takes time, but
by persistently repeating it, in the long run it has an effect. It
is the same principle as doing daily exercises on the piano, for
example. You keep mechanically repeating them, and in the end
your hands are filled with consciousness – it fills the body with
consciousness.
The Mother: Conversations with a disciple: September 20, 1960

The Gayatri mantra
The power of the Gayatri is the Light of the divine Truth. It
is a mantra of Knowledge.
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The Gayatri mantra is the mantra for bringing the light of Truth
into all the planes of the being. The other [Sri Aurobindo Mira]
has a general power.
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It is not necessary to give up Gayatri Japa or the process which
you are following at present. Concentration in the heart is one
method, concentration in the head (or above) is another; both
are included in this Yoga and one has to do whichever one finds
easiest and most natural. The object of the concentration in the
heart is to open the centre there (heart-lotus), to feel the pres-
ence of the Divine Mother in the heart and to become aware of
one's soul or psychic being which is a portion of the Divine. The

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