What is Mantras ?

Mantras are energy-based sounds. It produces vibration in the body. The words uttered in mantra are meaningful and are associated with the effect of vibration . This is one level of energy basis for words. Another level is aim. Actual physical vibration when joined with a mental aim, the vibration then contains an additional component, which influences the result of saying it. 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. A Mantra can consist of a powerful word or a combination of words and can be used for self realization, for freedom from worries, to fulfill one's desires, to ward off the effects of malefic planets, to bring you success, peace and contentment -- the range is truly vast. Mantras must be chanted or recited with devotion and motivation. Chanting them as a matter-of-course deprives them of power and is practically useless from the point of view of conscious growth, evolution and effect.