How do mantras change our consciousness – by their frequency word order or word choice?
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So when we chant mantras, if there are sound vibrations, is it the frequency of the sound vibration that elevates consciousness or is it the word order or the word choice? It's all one package. So the word order and the word choice, that also affects the frequency. It's like if you consider music, some music which is loud, noisy, it's a very different frequency from say some traditional music, gentle, soothing.
So the content of the music is also associated with the frequency. Anyway, there can be mantras which, the essential point of the mantra is that they are sound vibrations which raise our consciousness to a higher level. Now the word frequency, when we use it, it's not necessarily in the sense of scientific frequency, because we use that for sound vibration, whereas consciousness itself is not something associated with that kind of frequency.
Consciousness is not quantified in the material sense, whereas frequency is quantified. But I get the point, when we use the word frequency as we think the state of consciousness, when we say higher frequency, we could say higher state of consciousness. So when we talk about word order or the word choice, these are what significantly shift the frequency of the state.
Why because they are not just ordinary sounds, they are special words, special sounds. Just like say, I can take a piece of paper and mother made a lecture, same way, piece of paper on the ground, here then, you throw them in the air, child will get to work, you understand. But then, say that day the father has dropped a hundred dollar bill out of the window, the child goes and starts to yell, hey, don't do that, you know what he told you to do? This is not paper, this is a hundred dollar bill, this is also paper.
It's paper, it's a very good paper. So the value of that paper is different, because although it is paper, there is much more in it, something more added to it. So like that, we can have in this world, just as there can be different pieces of paper, but some pieces of paper can have special value.
So like that there can be different word forms and word choices or word sequences. If you know that all word choices and word sequences have the same value, that there is something more added to the currency note, which makes it part of the knowledge within you, like that, when we talk about the sound of mantras, there is something higher than that. There is higher consciousness that is invested in those mantras.
And that's how they help us to rise to a higher consciousness, they help to raise the frequency of our consciousness. Now it is true that just the mechanical action of mantras is not a very good action, it is beneficial, but it is also… So if a person has spiritual vibrancy, spiritual frequency, that means a person is already spiritually engaged, then this elevation of consciousness will happen much faster. The whole process of mantra meditation will be much more efficacious.
And the frequency and the word sequence and word choice, they are intrinsically associated with this. Because these words, as I said, they refer to the absolute truth. And the absolute truth is invoked by the utterance of these mantras.
And that itself is very beautiful. So, yes, the frequency of the sound vibration is what matters. But what frequency is also associated, is also determined, shaped by the word choice and word sequence.