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Prabhuji Speaks
Invocation and Prayer
Invocation is to bring out the energy inside us.
Prayer is dierent; it is to The Lord sitting some
where else. In invocation we invoke one of the
powers of divinity which is within us. In prayer
there is a gap between you and God but in case of
invocation there is no such gap.
Many religions of the world are prayer oriented
where as the Indian system is meditation orient
ed. Meditation is seeing God inside you, seeing
the divinity in you. The powers are in you, invoke
them. God is within you, see him. In India, Saint
means the one who is in peace (Shanta) but be
cause of our exposure to other religions and cultures we now have a dierent imagination. We think that the one who
sees what is inside us is called Saint. Dont be under the impression that prayer is to somebody sitting somewhere.
Bhagavaan is Sarvantaryami, he is everywhere, in everything. Invocation is to invoke one of the powers which exist
within. That is the dierence between prayer and the invocation. In prayer you ask for what you dont have and in
invocation you bring out what is within you. All Shanti Mantras of Upanishads are not prayers, they are invocations.
~ Prabhuji
Divya Jyothi
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Divya Jyothi
Sanatana Dharma
Mantra Drastra
Sanatana Dharma says the Rishi are Mantra Drastra
The Seer of the Mantra. Let us understand what our San
atana Dharma says about the Rishis. Rishi is the seer of
the Mantra. It is called seer Drastra, Mantra Drastra.
One who sees the Mantra is called Rishi. Seeing the Man
tra is being the Mantra. There is no dierence between
seeing and being. It is an inner experience at the time of
realization of the mantra. Mantra drastra means not just
listening the mantra. When hearing the mantra they ex
perience the inner truth. In that short experience, what
they listen becomes the spoken words of them and it is
called mantra. It is very crisp and clear. You cannot add
something to that. For example we can give explanation
of God, as God is everywhere. That is explanation.
There is a gap between one who experienced, one who is
experiencing and one who is experienced. There is a
dierence between them. While saying that God is every
where, there is a dierence in experience and listener.
Everybody says that God is everywhere. You can ask to
kids, they say that God is everywhere. It is only words. It
is not an experience. For Rishi, the words came at the
moment of experience and those words became Mantras.
Rishi is the one who experience the truth and at that
time the words came through his mouth and that is
called Mantra. That is the closest experience of the man
tra. So many people thinks that Mantra drastra means
somebody closes his eyes, in meditation, some mantra
will come out of it. He hears something because it is
called Shruthi, means he listens something and that
comes out as Mantra, No. It has to be a living experience.
When he hears the mantra while he is experiencing, that
is called Mantra. So Mantra Drastra is not just seeing
the mantra, it is not just hearing the mantra; it is not just
memorizing the mantra, but has become that mantra. So
Mantra drastra is not just one who has heard that man
tra, one who has not just understood the mantra, he ex
perienced that mantra; with that inner experience he
became the Mantra swaroopa. He is called Rishi. They
speak the truth.
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