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that higher voice of the divine. Therefore this thought, the supreme first mind of God, or manas, is now being introduced into the abhyasi as the force by which he can be regulated and taken higher and higher to a point of a direct audition of the divine. He becomes, then, an embodiment and personality of the divine in so far as he only listens to that voice as the voice that is within him, and yet transcendentally capable of applying to everybody; and which he can also make clear to everyone as a liberating influence in human life.
So, this is the value of the mantra. It is something, which is heard. And you know, of course, many people will find that what is heard is what is heard from the teacher! And how? Of course by means of bhashyas and all that! That is why we are called again. Sruti has come to be a question of a mere repetition and recitation of scriptures. Or, rather, learning the scripture orally from the master, and in repeating it again, and transmitting it that way. We are grateful to these people who preserved the scripture, transmitted in that manner, heard from the master, learnt by the pupil, and once again taught not by books, but by recitation. Well they have done that. It has been how we have preserved not only our literature but every other literature as well. May be that these people did not know how to print books, or may be they had no writing material or something like that, and that is why they did all that but we don't believe so. We believe that the highest spiritual truths must be got in a personal way from the Master who knows not merely the word-meaning of it but also the force by which it can begin to transform your life.
When we have so many scriptures in this world, what is our problem? Our problem is, how we can, directly, without the aid of language, go to thought itself. Because language is merely a vehicle of that thought. And languages can be many, but the thought is one. And this thought, given by the supreme Master, by God himself, to us, can produce that possibility of an entire revelation of a sruti in your conscience. And your conscience therefore becomes awakened to a new dimension of being which is beyond all that we know about society or politics, race or colour, or any other thing. It is truly universal in that sense, and truly liberating. The literal meaning of the word Mantra, really shows us the genesis of the idea of a super-conscious