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THREE TRUTHS – TRILLION DOUBTS
we ask the aspirant to continue with the mantra or should we ask him to stop with that mantra. In case the aspirant wants a mantra to be given should he be given any one of Om Tat Sat practices. It is a question for us to tackle at the Institute. Every trainer has to understand how he has to tackle this. The best thing for that person is to explain that the practice that he has done earlier has led him to this path and it would be wisdom to continue in the path leaving the mantra. But the difficulty of mental conditioning is there. There is a habit formation. One continues to think about the same mantra again and again, that will come during the meditation also. Those of us who had the experience of practicing a mantra earlier also faced the situation for some time and we were very firm on the path saying that we want to get rid of it therefore we got rid of it. Till one makes a decision to get rid of his earlier practices, this problem is bound to be there. If one does not want to leave his earlier practices, the only mantra that we can ever suggest to any person for practice will be the Gayatri. That is the only mantra which has been accepted by the Master as something which can be permitted along with the meditation and He even went to the extent of saying in some article that
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