My Mantra

Posting on this subject isn't easy because "how do you explain" a mantra.  I thought that it was worth a go though and would make a change from the typical "I'm in pain" or "I can't eat properly" posts of recent.

The best way that I can think of explaining it is to print it in full then break it down and then explain how I use it.

The overall image is one of a rose growing from its roots in the soil into the visible flower.  Like the description of the mantra provided in a previous post the growth of the flower from its roots symbolises the spiritual transformation that a mantra is meant to invoke.

I initially wrote the "root" and essence of the mantra without intent but recognised it as being such.  The original poem was

It was orignally a thought about light and how it travels.

And then expressed "in the round" much like looking down from the source of light, like a spotlight on a stage .



Whilst I recognised it as being mantra I did not understand it until  I wrote the "rose head" but that, in itself, was a result of contemplating what it was about.

The Aum that forms the stem of the rose represents its growth from its roots to its unfoldment.  I liked the image of the stem because it takes the unknown roots and brings them to light.  Not only that but in the example of the swans and the Aum it is not necessarily beautiful.  The stem represents that dual nature of hte swans because it is thorny but it is what transports the beauty of the rose into the light.

In respect of the dual nature of light and dark, good and evil, yin and yang, masculine and feminine the mantra is also expressed a such

When expressed fully the upright rose lays on top of the inverted rose to express its dual nature.

So, of what benefit is that to me?