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CHAPTER 10. THE ETERNAL SPRING
concentrate. Observer the tip of your nose with a feeling of peace within. Then begin to say ’Om’
loudly. You are using the body, you start from the body, because that is where you are right now.
Repeat ’Om’ loudly, so that the sound strikes the walls and rebounds and falls back on you. This
is why an empty room is essential, for that resonance is only possible in an amply room, and the
greater the resonance the better it is. Christian cathedrals were designed for mantra; whatever is
spoken reverberates and echoes a thousandfold from all sides. The Hindu temple is also constructed
for meditation; the dome serves the same purpose. No vibrations can escape from a circular place;
the sound turns inward.
Sit and repeat ’Om’ as loudly as possible. Remember, you have to use the body. Your whole body
should be bathed in the vibrations of ’Om’. You should feel that you have expended all your lifeenergy
in that ’Om’. Hold nothing back; treat it as a matter of life and death. The mantra cannot be
complete with anything less than this. If you repeat it softly, halfheartedly, then it is of no use. You
have to say it with all your strength, and all your being, as if you very life depended on it; unless you
say ’Om’ with all you might you will die. Stake you all! Let ’Om’ roar like a lion from within you. Eyes
half-closed... half-opened... and a loud repetition of ’Om’. Remember, the vibrations are created
like ripples in a pool when a stone is thrown. Similarly, your ’Om’ will create ripples and vibrations
everywhere; it will strike the walls and come back to you.
Also, repeat the ’Om’ quickly, so that each repetition overlaps the previous one. Leave no interval
between this, no space. Exert all you strength, until you are bathed in perspiration. In a few days
you will find that the whole room is filled with ’Om’. You will find that the room is assisting you; all the
sound will be coming back to you. If you can find a circular room it will be very good; if you find one
with a dome, even better! The room should be absolutely empty, so that the vibrations rain on you
from all sides. You whole body should be bathed in those vibrations. Then you will find a wonderful
freshness that is unattainable even after bathing in water.
Scientists are carrying out extensive research on vibrations. They have discovered the plants flower
and bear fruit earlier when they have been exposed to music of a particular vibration. In Russia and
in America music has been used in agriculture to promote richer and earlier harvests; the results
have been quite successful.
Ravi Shankar used his sitar in an experiment in Canada. He played the sitar when seeds of different
plants were sown. When the plants come up the most astonishing thing was that they are all leaning
towards the place where Ravi Shankar had played. When they grow taller they were still leaning in
the same direction, just as a deaf person leans forward and brings his ear closer in order to hear
better. All the plants have their ears to the sitar! And they grew twice as quickly! A plant is a
gross body in which everything is asleep, unconscious; but even so, the body vibrates with sound
an begins to sway.
When ’Omkar’ – the sound of ’Om’ – begins to shower on you from all sides the vibrations will from
a circle. You will find that every pore of your body is filled with joy, and all the bodily illnesses are
draining away; you will find a peace, a profound sense of well -being. It will surprise you how many
body illnesses will disappear on their own, for it is a profound cleansing that penetrates you deeply.
The body is a concentration of vibrations, and there is no vibration more wonderful than ’Omkar’, the
repetition of ’Om’. Repeat ’Om’ loud for ten minutes, using the medium of the body to its maximum.
The Great Path 178 Osho