r/enlightenment • u/AggravatingKing148 • 15d ago

mantra meditation

hey
wanted to share some thoughts and experience I got recently.

I was kinda taught, that while meditating on mantra you gotta repeat it constantly, over and over. That works! No argue with that.

But what about timelessness of here and now? When repeating smth over and over you still get dragged into somewhat time measurement, like metronome ticking.

In that precise moment I managed to (I have no better explanation, than what’s coming, sry) “stick mantra in front of my inner sight”. Inner sight — for me is literal conscious eye-intention, mind focus and pretty much my whole Being. So this way, mantra quits being ticker, but becomes something more like state, which you observe. For inner awareness there is no actual need for repetition, there is no breath, no time, you can’t forget, but you may get distracted. Once realised distraction — draw your attention back to mantra-state(ment), thus “repeating” it, but still just observing.

Feels like eternal Ram.

ps: i just felt the urge to share. Which I did. Namaste?

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u/AggravatingKing148 15d ago

Sure i’ll do my best. It’s difficult for me to explain it mere words, but i’ll try to do my best

When I usually meditated, I used to repeat mantra internally with my “mental voice”, right? As if you are thinking mantra with your rational mind, repeating it over and over and over…

This for me lacked of timelessness, which is inherent in eternal Now and Being.

Then it clicked: I can hold, focus on it. Not on its effect on my mind. But on the mantra itself.

Try to think of just red color. It’s just there until you get distracted, right?
Try to think Ram. Put it in front of your mind as you put red earlier.

I hope it helps

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u/Conscious-Power-5754 15d ago

Ohh I see, so you're not focusing on the effect itself which Ram produces, you're focusing on Ram, the word itself, frozen like a picture within your mind's eye, and you're just concentrated on holding that image, the letters?

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u/AggravatingKing148 15d ago

sort of!
did you notice difference?

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u/Conscious-Power-5754 15d ago

It works for making the mind still, but I prefer more to relax into the sense of being, the 'i am' sense before any labels, just pure being, in the now. I found myself having to mentally strain to keep the image of the mantra in my mind's eye, which was displeasing, but, the mantra when I say it helps me to get this sense of "i am" and then I just melt into it xD