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THE DYNAMICS OF MEDITATION
insight comes—it is like a flash of lightning in the night. For a moment the horizon is illumined. Then darkness returns, but what has been seen cannot be erased. In the same way, in that moment of the experience of reality you are different, you are not any name or form. You are aware of what you really are. You are pure energy. In this way the mantram takes you into your pure real Self.
Let the mantram play on your breath, feeling vee as you inhale and rum as you exhale. Allowing the breath to come and go, you feel the ebb and flow of the universe. You are no longer afraid of anything for there is nothing to lose. Life is continuously coming and going. Something comes in one hand and goes out the other. We stop clinging because we see that clinging ultimately brings suffocation and death. Your body and your breath are changed with these vibrations of veerum. The mantram begins to vibrate in all your activities. At your job, in your family relations, or just relaxing quietly, the subtle sound rings at the back of your mind. You remember and feel that you are as brave as any of the bravest souls.
There is another deep and powerful mantram you can use in a similar way. That is soham. You inhale on so and exhale on hum, as with veerum. So means "that” and hum means “I” or “this." "That” and “this” are not really · separate. It may appear that “this” is here and “that” is there, but that is only the appearance of separateness. Everything is in relation to everything else. If there is no
"that," there can be no “this": and without “this," "that" · could not exist. So is dynamic energy, hum is magnetic
energy. So is sky and hum is earth. So and hum are all the
