Is There Any Miraculous Power in a Mantra?

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[This question is part of a Mahā Satsaṅga (grand spiritual discussion) between Swami, Shri Parikshit, Smt. Bindiya and Dr. J. S. R. Prasad.]

Swami replied:- The mantra is a sentence uttered by you, the meaning of which is not told to you. When the meaning is not known, you cannot have any feeling. If there is no feeling, there is no devotion. If there is no devotion, God will not be pleased to do any miracle in your favor. If you merely utter the sentence without any meaning or feeling, the mere utterance of the mantra is totally useless. Mere sound energy is imaginable item and cannot generate unimaginable event, called miracle. Everything depends on the feeling developed in you while the mantra is uttered by you. You must know that the unimaginable God alone can generate the miracle and not mere sound energy or some technical process (tantram).

[Shri Parikshit told: Swami as told by You that Datta is in our house, fragrance of lotus flowers came to Smt. Bindiya. When she told about this to my father, my father also told that he is getting the fragrance in that time.]

Swami told: It is good that you have mentioned about the miracle, which is a practical proof for the existence of unimaginable God in God Datta. Jesus said that one must give witness for the miracle of God, which helps the atheists to change.

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