Mantra is the original form of all language, the original language from which all others derive. Mantric language, to define it succinctly, is language in which sound and meaning correspond. It is like poetry wherein the sound of words reflects their meaning and aids in its manifestation. More than this, it is a science of sound wherein the meaning and force of all sounds is known and developed towards mergence in the Divine Word.
To the organic logic of the intuitive mind, words are not mere arbitrary designations for various objects, with sound and meaning corresponding only through the incidence of custom and usage. Rather, the sound projects the meaning, partakes of it and is not separate from the object it names. Such names are not mere words that veil the being or essence of things with the memory associations of the externally directed mind. They are not names in our ordinary sense at all. They are the essential sound idea behind the object that evokes its being, which becomes the tool whereby its essence comes forth and is grasped. They are the mantric names of objects which arise within the mind in meditative perception, as the mark of entry of the being of the object into the fabric of the mind.
Such mantric names cannot arise when we cast our labels and titles upon things, when we place our arbitrary values, judgments and determinations upon them. These reflect our manipulation of objects rather than what they are in themselves. Mantric names arise spontaneously when we open our minds to the being of things in choiceless observation. They are the vibration of the mind uniting to the being of the object in the unity of seeing. As such, they serve to invoke and to become that state. Mantric names, by their psychic connection in being, arouse in us the essence or archetype behind the object, serving as a catalyst to allow it to come forth in its spiritual significance. In the mantric sense, therefore, to name is to know the nature of a thing, to touch its essence.
Such mantric names do not reflect merely an arbitrary cultural usage. They reflect the archetypal vibrations behind all phenomenal objects, the vibrations of the Divine Word itself. This is not a religious belief, but the vibratory energy of cosmic intelligence that informs all things. Such words are ways of contacting the Word of God, which is not the word of some anthropomorphic deity, but the creative vibration at the heart of life in which all life is a unitary movement. Mantric language is the Word of God made manifest, which is not a set of moralistic commandments but the cosmic principles in all things, whereby their unique nature is comprehended. This Divine Word is the Word of Life, in which rest the organic laws of creation. It is the word that lets things be, which enables the soul of things to come forth by receptivity. It is the word-law of the essence, of which all nature is an effusion and evil is only the attempt to selfishly limit its flow. Such a language is a cosmic language that attunes us to the cosmic creative vibration which we are isolated from by the inertia of our animal and social conditioning. It is this language alone that can comprehend life and its fluid harmonies, that can qualitatively extract the essence of things, whereas our present rigid languages shadow life in artificial concepts and quantitative values in which all things are reduced to some manipulative or material value that denies their soul or timeless significance.
Such a mantric language is called a revelation or scripture. All the world’s great scriptures have some sense of it. It is a multidimensional intuitive language that combines symbol, myth, legend, ritual, alchemy, yoga, philosophy and theology – all inner and outer ways of knowing. In it everything becomes archetypal and takes on a cosmic meaning, reflecting the universal, the eternal and the infinite. Mantra is the language of the soul wherein we feel all life as cosmic and sense each thing as a unique revelation of the all. It is the language of truth realization which reveals the vibratory structure of all objects within the unitary field of consciousness, unveiling their eternal being. Mantra is the basis of all religion, language and culture because it alone can manifest the eternal laws by which anything can endure or have any real order and harmony. Only through such mantric language can real change be possible for humanity because it bears the ascending creative vibration that brings about all transformations. All true creativity, thinking and perception partakes of this mantric language whose most original, extensive and primal manifestation for the human race came with the ancient seers of the Himalayas, through which they brought forth human culture in the beginning.

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YAMIN MOHAMMAD