Texts and Mantrams

The committing of verses and mantrams and reciting them is one of the outward ways to aid in concentration. Thc Hindu calls them mantrarns; we call them texts. There are some that have a pacifying effect and bring a realization very quickly of the control exercised by tour divine self. Take a single thought and raise it above your other thoughts, like a Moses in the wilderness raised up to head the children of Israel out of the old slavery into the land of eternal freedom and happiness. I know one who took. Thou only as her statement, and every time she found herself having thoughts and feelings that were not desirable, she would say, "Thou only."

There are those who have taken "They Will is done in me," with the result of giving up the human will and knowing there is but one will working in and through them Some take the twenty-third Psalm, others the Lord's Prayers. Whatever appeals to you, in verses or single words, use them as Leaders about which to gather your wayward and scattered thoughts.

If you love this life and are pursuing it all the time, some Truth is always presenting itself and you can have a variety in your spiritual diet’. As I have said before, whoever is living this life, uplifting others and talking truth, is concentrating without an effort, and I must continually call your attention to this way—this effortless way of loving truth for its

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own sake, for when you are in love with truth, you cannot help but think of it night and day, and thus the power of concentration becomes as natural to you as your breath.

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