A Mae/errata. Myrna/e ewe/a of Wonder
The correspondence about
mantras we’re receiving here
at Viha confirms Miten and
Deva ’s experiences with the
magical effects of mantras.
Here ’5 one letter we received.‑
Months ago I bought
Deva's Password CD, and I
fell in love with it almost
immediately. I listened to it many times and then
forgot about it.
A couple of weeks ago, I rediscovered it and p u t it in
my car’s CD player, which is an old one. The CD got
stuck in the player, and it has been playing every day
since then: when I get in the car early in the m o r n ‑
ing, when I r e t u r n from the office, when I go back
to the office, when I go to visit somebody, when I ’ m
stuck into traffic jams, at the drive-through...
When I’ve done this with other music I’ve become
tremendously bored with it or even hated the music
and never wanted to listen to it again. With this
music something else began go happen. Mysterioule
things began to change, to improve, to flow more
easily than before...in many different ways.
Traffic wasn’t bothering me anymore, people began
to smile back easily, then they began to smile at me
even before I smiled at them, and some people asked
me window-to-window in the traffic: “Why are you
so happy?” This was just because I smiled, and I
couldn't explain anything. It is just what it is!
Then. I started realizing there was something like a
mysterious, invisible bubble of wonder moving along
with me, a bubble of beauty, peace, and enjoyment,
contagious to everyone around. It took more days
of beautiful c o m m e n t s and instantaneous responses
from so many known and unknown parties before
I finally understood: The m a n t r a s were chanting
inside of me all day long.
Even business at my small plaza, Techos Verdes, got
much better; empty suites are n o w filled with new
tenants, and more customers are visiting. Meditation
programs are moving so much better, architecture
workshops are improving, and so on.
SoI looked at the CD box again and read on the
back cover:
"Mantras are magical passwords that transform the man‑
dane into the sacred.” Deva Premal
I suggest others t r y these m a n t r a s too. It’s just like
something Osho said about life, that it is beautiful,
mysterious, and beyond understanding, something
just to experience.
Angela Vivek in Hondurasv
[email protected]
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What I amtrying to explain to you is drop guilt, because
to beguilty is to live in hell. Not being guilty, you will
have the freshness of dewdrops in the early morning sun;
you will have the freshness of lotus petals in the lake;
you will have the freshness of the stars in the night. Once
guilt disappears you will have a totally different kind of
life, luminous and radiant. You will have a dance to your
feet, and your heart will be singing athousand and one
songs.
To live in such rejoicing is to be a sannyasin; to live in
suchjoy is to live a divine life. To live burdened with guilt
is simply to beexploited by the priests. [...]
And the only way to bein contact with life, the only way
not to lag behind life, is to have a heart that is not guilty,
a heart that is innocent. Forget all about what you have
been told ‐ what has to be done and what has not to be
done ‐ nobody else can decide it for you.
Avoid those pretenders who decide for you; take the reins
in your own hands. You have to decide. In fact, in that
very decisiveness, your soul is born. When others decide
for you, your soul remains asleep and dull. When you
start deciding on your own, a sharpness arises. To decide
means to take risks; to decide means you may be doing
wrong. Who knows? That is the risk; who knows what is
going to happen? That is the risk, there is no guarantee.
[...]
Rejoice! And I say to you again, rejoice as you are.
The Book of Wisdom, Chapter 11