"A Mantra is a word or group of words heard continuously with deep conscious attention, uncovering and amplifying an essential vibration or truth, which intentionally purifies the Cosmic Eye Center and awakens us to divine experience."

"Mantra is that part of the directed will of God that becomes audible."

 Until the holy sound, Om, is clearly and continuously heard, we are given a mantra which helps to consciously link us in our apparently separate condition to the unifying, omnipresent vibration of Om.  The mantra serves to create a singular focus.  This helps cut off the mind’s endless wandering and calms it down.  The mantra opens the way to the Holy Sound.

  "All true mantras issue from God.  God is the source of the intelligence itself.  Even more… God is the voice of the mantra.  He is the speaker.  The devotee may begin the intoning in order to begin hearing it, but soon there comes a release of effort and God is witnessed as the one who intones the Sound.  The profound recognition of this truth evokes deep listening… the deepest form of listening.  In this state of grace the intuition blossoms.  In this state of grace God purifies our center, dissolves the edges, and unveils His omnipresence."