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Veda and Mantra : Self-Revealed Knowledge Speech by Gurudeva Paramahamsa Swami Omkarananda Saraswati So, a good and noble and pure life has to be cultivated as the foundation for spiritual life, as the foundation for the experience of the Divine. It is then that higher truths reveal themselves automatically in one´s own being. Nothing that I have spoken now, I have ever heard from anyone, nor have I read about it, that is so with almost everything that I speak. So it is a self-born knowledge, it is happening in the intelligence, without effort. From this we can understand that the highest spiritual truths presented by the greatest sages have also happened in the intelligence of those sages. Veda is a bundle of self-revealed knowledge, mystical syllables are self-revealed. No teacher taught them, no human being has created them, like the words in the German language. They are not created, they are self-revealed, they are mystical syllables. Purity and Goodness are the Precondition for Mantra Just see the blowing wind, it makes all kinds of noises, it has its own language, its own tones. If the wind which is such a petty power produces its own language, is characterised by its own sounds, you can imagine how much more the spirit has its own language and sounds. Some of these tones which constitute the very substance and heart and soul of the Divine are the mystical syllables. To repeat them is the same as touching the Divine. When your hands are dirty you don’t touch the food and eat it, first you wash your hands. Exactly so, the mystical syllables are the food, if you want to touch them you have to purify yourself. If you don’t purify yourself you will spoil the food – since the mystical syllables cannot be spoiled you harm yourself, unable to harm the mystical syllables. So, purity is necessary for the repetition of the mystical syllables. That’s why wisdom keeps these syllables secret, not for any other reason. If you have purity, you take the mystical syllables, everybody has joy in giving them to you. And even if nobody gives you, and even if you have absolutely no access to them, they somehow reveal themselves to you. So, before you desire to have these mystical syllables you have to deserve them. The good person always tries to deserve it. And when you deserve it, automatically it will be given to you even if you don’t want; automatically it will be given to you even when all the world wants to keep it secret. So purity is very important, goodness is very important, great love is important. Always to criticise oneself in the sense of trying to find limitations in oneself and enthusiastically eliminating them, this is characteristic of a good heart which is growing. Bad people are always thinking of other people, “Ah, that man is bad, ah he is deceiving, he is lying, he is not a good man”, they dwell in such thoughts, – and by this no one is so much harmed as he himself [the person who has these thoughts]. So, goodness is of primary importance, goodness is the throne on which God sits. Keep the heart good and God will have His throne in you. The End |
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