Mantras and Yantras

Here are some important ideas about mantras which will enable one to practically understand what mantra is and what can it do. Various interpretations of Mantra. Mantras are energy-based sounds. Saying any work produces an actual physical vibration. Over time, if we know that vibration is, then the word may come to have meaning associated with the effect of saying that vibration or word. This is one level of energy basis for words.

Another level is intent. If the actual physical vibration is coupled with a mental intention, the vibration then contains an additional mental component which influences the result of saying it. The sound is the carrier wave and the intend is overlaid upon the wave form, just as a coloured gel influences the appearence and effect of a white light. In either instance, the word is based upon energy. Nowhere is this idea more true than for sanskrit mantra. For although there is a general meaning which comes to be associated with mantras, the only lasting definition is the result or effect of saying the mantra.