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The Protective Power of the Mantra · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  A devotee reported the following incident.
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  He had visited a researcher at Jipmer Hospital in Pondicherry,
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  India, who was using Curlean photography in his research.
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  The researcher showed him several stones.
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  One of them was an ordinary stone.
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  The other one had been in an active temple for a considerable
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  period of time. He showed the Curlean aura
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  photographs of the two and it was clear that the temple stone
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  had a strong radiation coming off of it.
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  The researcher then suggested that this devotee become himself
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  part of the experiment. First he took a photograph of
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  his extended hand. He then had the devotee chants
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  of mantras for a couple of minutes.
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  The post mantra photograph had a strong radiating aura coming off
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  the fingers. One of the powers of an active
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  mantra is to energize the vital being and strengthen the aura.
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  The aura provides a protective vital field around each
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  individual. So the power of the mantra is a
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  boost to the ability of the individual to ward off negative
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  forces, including potentially forces that can create illness
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  if they succeed in penetrating the aura.
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  The mantra must be a living 1, not an intellectual pursuit that
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  someone picks up out of a book. It also must be honoured,
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  supported and encouraged in its action.
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  Through repetition with focus and intent, it then gains its
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  utmost power. The deeper it is ingrained, the
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  more it is able to respond instantly to situations and
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  provide added protection for the individual.
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  Frequent repetition of the chosen mantra, particularly in
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  situations of danger or stress, makes it easier for it to appear
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  at the moment of need in the consciousness.
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  It is something like classical condition in in Western
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  psychology, which practices repetition of a specific
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  conditioning event and elicits a specific conditioned response
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  such that whenever that event occurs, the response occurs
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  automatically and instantaneously.
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  In the case of a mantra that is remembered at times of
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  difficulty or danger, the being is conditioned to bring it
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  forward whenever such stress arises, and the action of the
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  mantra conditions the aura and other elements of the body,
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  life, mind, complex to respond with a protective response, the
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  mother observes. Quote And then you may also take
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  another attitude when you are playing and suddenly become
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  aware that something is going wrong, you are making mistakes,
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  are inattentive. Sometimes opposing currents come
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  across what you are doing. If you develop the habit
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  automatically at this moment of calling, as by a mantra, of
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  repeating a word that has an extraordinary effect, you choose
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  your mantra. Or rather one day it comes to
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  you spontaneously in a moment of difficulty, at a time when
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  things are very difficult, when you have a sort of anguish,
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  anxiety, when you don't know what is going to happen,
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  suddenly this springs up in you, the words brings up in you.
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  For each one it may be different, but if you mark this
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  and each time you face a difficulty you repeat it, it
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  becomes irresistible. For instance, if you feel you
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  are about to fall, I'll, if you feel you are doing badly what
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  you are doing, if you feel something evil is going to
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  attack you, then. But it must be a spontaneity in
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  the being. It must spring up from you
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  without your needing to think about it.
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  You choose your mantra because it is a spontaneous expression
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  of your aspiration. It may be one word, two or three
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  words, a sentence that depends on each one, but it must be a
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  sound which awakens in you a certain condition.
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  Then when you have that, I assure you that you can pass
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  through everything without difficulty, even in the face of
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  a real, veritable danger, an attack, for instance, by someone
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  who wants to kill you. If without getting excited,
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  without being perturbed, you quietly repeat your mantra.
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  One can do nothing to you naturally.
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  You must be truly master of yourself.
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  One part of the being must not be trembling there like a leaf.
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  No, you must do it entirely sincerely.
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  Then it is all powerful. The best is when the word comes
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  to you spontaneously. You call in a moment of great
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  difficulty, mental, vital, physical, emotional, whatever it
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  might be, and suddenly that springs up in you two or three
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  words, like magical words. You must remember these and form
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  the habit of repeating them in moments when difficulties come.
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  If you form the habit, one day it will come to you
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  spontaneously. When the difficulty comes, at
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  the same time the mantra will come.
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  Then you will see that the results are wonderful.
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  But it must not be an artificial thing or something you
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  arbitrarily decide. I shall use these words.
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  Nor should somebody else tell you.
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  Oh, you know, this is very good. It is perhaps very good for him,
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  but not for everyone. End Quote.
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  Reference Srioro Bindu and the Mother Powers within, Chapter 7
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  Attitude, pages 76 to 77.