Mantra Yoga- Shri Yogendraji

It was through that course of yoga known by the name Mantra Yoga that Alfred Lord Tennyson, the poet laureate of England, by the successive concentration and repetition of his name, attained the state of self-consciousness.

It was through that course of yoga known by the name Mantra Yoga that Alfred Lord Tennyson, the poet laureate of England, by the successive concentration and repetition of his name, attained the state of self-consciousness. Though he was totally unconscious of the effect of the vibrations of the words when he first began chanting his name, it was after he attained the state of realization, that he became aware of the mysterious effects of this unknown science. However, before he began to concentrate on his name, he knew nothing of this part of Indian yoga; it was through nature alone that he was influenced to concentrate his mind on the words of his name for a certain desired result.

Thus, it is not merely the act of auto-suggestion that raised him to the stage of self-trance, but something else. That was the influence of those vibrations which he created by successive repetition. Then, after a time, came in the rhythm of those vibrations which he unconsciously followed. This ultimately brought him to the unfoldment of his true consciousness.

But such instances as that of the poet Tennyson are exceptionally rare, though we can often find cases of a similar nature on a smaller scale in our daily life. To speak of my own self, I remember, when I was a boy of only ten, to have wished for a certain thing which my father was not aware of. I wished and wished more strongly every day - that name of four words. I repeated that name, I do not know how many times; in short, it became the focus of my mind, for that time being. If I went out to play, I would take that name in my mind; if I sat down to eat, I would murmur it silently within myself. And thus it came to pass that the vision of that object and myself were no more different individualities. And, lo! To my great surprise and joy, without my telling my father, he brought that same thing as my birthday present.