Student: I have a question about the Guru Mantra.

I understood that the mantra can be repeated inwardly when you call upon your Guru. Is it also possible to repeat the mantra just for pleasure?

Jivanjili: We don’t say anything about the Guru Mantra. Why don’t we say anything about the Guru Mantra?

S: Because it is something between you and the Guru?

J: MMMMMMMMM… and what is between you and the Guru, is between the Guru and the Guru.

The Guru, the Master, your Teacher, only sees the essence, the Buddha, your True Nature: the diamond. The Guru Mantra is a Mantra from diamond to diamond. You are the diamond, unmoving, transparent, permanent and neutral. The essence is in all times, is never born and never died. That’s your True Nature. The difference is that I do see it and you don’t. Still…the essence does know the essence. Without knowing, without knowledge, in that sense. How is that possible?

S: It is recognition.

J: Yes, recognition without knowledge, without conceptualization, without being capable of explaining. This is high, deep, what we are talking about. She is asking about the Guru Mantra. That is the Highest. Now we can only speak in absolute words, words that can only point to that what cannot be spoken about. Yes, recognition. You could say so. Unspeakable recognition.

A recognition that is from heart to heart, beyond reason. Something that cannot be explained: neither to yourself, nor to your partner or your neighbors…. to no-body.

Therefore recognition makes us very humble and still, and mysteriously expresses in the mantra, in a painting, in the birds song. This depth of the unspeakable is, for instance, so beautifully expressed in Japanese haikus. A haiku is a verse consisting of only a few words: “Bamboo clicking.” That’s a haiku, and the Master has said all there is to say because there is nothing to say: “Bamboo clicking.” There is no interpretation, meaning, and no opinion in genuine seeing.

The essence does not know boundaries. The essence does not know conditions. The essence does not know knowing, does not know. In Self-realization we see that there is nobody to realize, we see there is no Self-realization. We see that there is no one who was ever really born nor died; there is no world hence nobody in it. And still… it is SO all embracing that it does not know contradictions: still here it is, that manifestation; transparent, empty, non-existent. The essence is utterly neutral. In essence there is no Guru and no disciple. Essentially there isn’t even “from Guru to Guru”, we could also call the essence “Guru”, the undivided principle in all, beyond light and darkness. This is the exact meaning of the word Guru.

You have no idea of the depth of the Guru Mantra. So deep it is. It is beyond consciousness, beyond re-cognition. Because to re-cognize is to know again. We call the Guru principle the unknowable, empty in essence, so who is there possibly to know again? It is the unknowable in which all things appear and disappear. I AM ALL THINGS. There is not a hair difference between you and me in essence, between the asan* and you and me, between whatever. The manifestation is different in appearances, essentially the same.

The Guru Mantra dissolves mental formations, or illusory walls, so to speak. I say to you that you are all things; use the mantra for all things. It cannot be wrong.

The Guru Mantra is whispered silently or inwardly and does not know rules. We cannot say anything about it.

I only say to you… follow your heart unrestrictedly and rest deeply in the mantra. Be the mantra.

OM Sacha, a deep bow to you.

* The Sanskrit word for "a seat or position" also “easy pose”.

Satsangh One in None Sacha Center, August 30, 2001

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