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CHAPTER 10. THE ETERNAL SPRING
on all sides. The legs want to run, the hands want to move, the eyes want to see, the ears want to
listen. These are all old habits. That is the way that energy has always flowed.
That is why I always insist on catharsis before any meditation. It is very helpful. Rap, jump and
skip around for ten minutes to eject all the blocked energy, then sit for meditation. The peace that
follows catharsis is the calm that follows the storm; the body becomes light, it loses its restlessness.
These ten minutes are only preparation, not an actual stage in the meditation of mantra. It is the
step outside of your house. The real journey occurs inside the house.
FIRST STEP, BUT THE BODY: SAYING ’OM’ – TEN MINUTES
SECOND STEP, BUT THE MIND: SILENT REPETITION OF ’OM’ – TEN MINUTES.
THIRD STEP, LISTENING SILENTLY TO THE RESONANCE OF ’OMKAR’ WITHIN – TEN
MINUTES.
Repeating Rama, Krishna or Buddha will not be suitable for this journey, for they can only take you
up to the second step; they cannot go any further, for in the third step the actual resonance in the
head is the sound of ’Om’. Sometimes a person repeating ’Ram... Ram... Ram...’ can attain the
third stage. It is like when you are traveling by train, you hear the wheels saying anything you fancy.
You might think they are saying ’Ram-Ram-Ram’ or ’Allah-Allah-Allah’, but the fact remains that the
sound of the wheels is actually ’Chucka-Chucka-Chucka’.
’Om’ is that pure sound. If you repeat Ram you will also hear Ram, but this is just a superimposition,
which indicates that the mind is still alive and working to some extent. We should experience only
that which is. We should see only that which is, without giving it our own color. Hence, the ultimate
mantra is ’Omkar’; all others are secondary, inferior. They only take the seeker as far as the second
step. In actual fact they become an obstruction in the third step.
Use ’Om’ as I have specified. For at least three months without worrying at all abut results. You are
not to even think of results; just carry out the practice. Do not worry whether you are progressing
or not progressing. Fix a date; in exactly three months you can start to think about the results, not
before! If you can summon this much patience you will succeed.
A little child digs a hole, puts in a mango seed and covers it up. After half an hour his curiosity
makes him dig it out to see whether it has begun to sprout. He is disappointed. He puts the seed
back in the hole. After another half-hour his patience again runs out and he digs up the seed. Now
he is really miserable, for nothing has happened. Now the seed will never sprout. Everything has its
own timetable. A seed must lie in the dark earth for a specific period of time before it can sprout.
It is for this very reason that your meditation also fails to bear fruit. You are too impatient for results.
Jesus said, ”Let not your left hand know what the right hand is doing.” Act the same way! Bury the
mantra deep inside you. This is why the mantra is referred to as a seed. All it means is that you
should not keep digging it up over and over again to examine its progress. It has its own rhythm. It
will sprout in its own good time. Your impatience can only spoil thing for you.
Take this ultimate mantra along with you and carry out the experiment. If you do it with total patience
for three months you will be filled with a sweet nectar, and then it will be what Kabir calls the taste of
The Great Path 182 Osho