Here i'll give my own take to mantras.
What they are,how they work and why they don't work.
So what they are for me:
In one word,'' triggers''.
An example:
You see somewhere that the mantra LAM can open the base chakra.. You start using it and finaly works..
Thing is,what would happened if for some reason you knew that the mantra LAM opens the heart chakra instead of the base one?
And this is where things get interesting..
Others claim that pronunciation is the key..
Not at all.
Otherwise everyone would press play on a vid with the correct spelling having instant results...
However,a vid can work as well,as long as it registered in your mind as something that does this or that.. That's why teqniques can work for some people but not for everyone... The external input is useless,unless you know what it does.. And when you know what it does,it becomes the trigger...
So,can a mantra work,if you don't know what it triggers?
I don't think so..
Then you start to realize that words of power hold no power at all. They only trigger it.
If you can convince your mind that the word fnfjfjdk is a powerful godly mantra that can open all chakras at once,that's what will happen..
It took me a long time to find out why mudras and mantras were working after my kundalini awakening...
It was never about the mudras or the mantras,but the mind it self..
One other time i created a mantra of my own.. Just a simple word with no meaning at all...
I used it,and my mind was searching in a hurry to find out what this thing does.. Eventualy the first thought that crossed my mind was '' racing heart'',and that's what happened.. Fortunaly it didn' t last for long...
That resonates. I also notice massive rewiring. Possibility opening some memory gates along the way.
That's really interesting.. to have that sensitivity and be able to sample about and find what works for you.
I had used other 'keywords' as well,in order to observe what they will trigger..
The best one was 'theosis'.
I felt power rising from the base chakra to the ajna.. Prolably it triggers kundalini.. The power was passing through the central chanel,energising the major chakras on it's way up...
I already knew but was curious, and did the research and lo. And behold..spot on
As far as mantras go a lot of them obviously fall in the realm of particular deities. Dr. Robert Svoboda
recommends looking in your fifth house to find your deity if you are in fact, still in search of.
Aim. Hreem. Kleem. Kreem. Dhum. And proper unmentioned have been mine. Granted, they are are in a specific category. I don't have alot of experience outside of that.. but that's my happy place🙏
The Man Who Walked on Water
A conventionally-minded dervish, from an austerely pious school, was walking one day along a river bank. He was absorbed in concentration upon moralistic and scholastic problems, for this was the form which Sufi teaching had taken in the community to which he belonged. He equated emotional religion with the search for ultimate Truth.
Suddenly his thoughts were interrupted by a loud shout: someone was repeating the dervish call. ‘There is no point in that,' he said to himself, 'because the man is mispronouncing the syllables. Instead of intoning ya hu, he is saying u ya hu.'
Then he realized that he had a duty, as a more careful student, to correct this unfortunate person, who might have had no opportunity of being rightly guided, and was therefore probably only doing his best to attune himself with the idea behind the sounds.
So he hired a boat and made his way to the island in midstream from which the sound appeared to come.
Sitting in a reed hut he found a man, dressed in a dervish robe, moving in time to his own repetition of the initiatory phrase. 'My friend,' said the first dervish, 'you are mispronouncing the phrase. It is incumbent upon me to tell you this, because there is merit for him who gives and him who takes advice. This is the way in which you speak it.' And he told him.
'Thank you,' said the other dervish humbly.
The first dervish entered his boat again, full of satisfaction at having done a good deed. After all, it was said that a man who could repeat the sacred formula correctly could even walk upon the waves: something that he had never seen, but always hoped — for some reason — to be able to achieve.
Now he could hear nothing from the reed hut, but he was sure that his lesson had been well taken.
Then he heard a faltering u ya as the second dervish started to repeat the phrase in his old way...
While the first dervish was thinking about this, reflecting upon the perversity of humanity and its persistence in error, he suddenly saw a strange sight. From the island the other dervish was coming towards him, walking on the surface of the water...
Amazed, he stopped rowing. The second dervish walked up to him and said: 'Brother, I am sorry to trouble you, but I have to come out to ask you again the standard method of making the repetition you were telling me, because I find it difficult to remember it.'
Tales of the Dervishes, Idries Shah