by George A. Boyd ©1990
The mantra, OM AH HUM VAJRA PADME SIDDHI GURU HUM, or its variant,
OM AH HUM VAJRA PADME AYUSHE HUM, is a means of invoking the creative
intelligence of the psycho-spiritual centers of man. This mantramic invocation
empowers these centers via the awakening of awareness and energizes them
by stimulating the arousal of the Kundalini Shakti.
In addition to creating
an inflow and absorption of attention and awareness, it simultaneously
encourages the outflowing of these higher centers as intuitive knowledge,
compassionate understanding, and skillful intelligence.
In the Western work, the personality is conceptualized as comprising
the physical body with emotional and mental fields interpenetrating it.
Integrating these three worlds of the Self is the principle of the Will,
and Self Consciousness (Centered Self or Self).
The Superconscious level of the
mind is the field in which the human individuality (Soul) evolves to achieve
ever-higher states of mastery over its vehicles and the powers inherent
in them. This process of spiritual evolution is called Initiation in the
West, and constitutes an expansion of the conscient principles together
with a new state of attunement with the Divine Life.
The Western Work
characterizes five major Initiations that culminate in the mastery of
these Superconscious vehicles. The table that follows characterizes the
relationship between vehicles of consciousness of the Western Work and
the syllables of these Tibetan mantras:
Intuitive knowledge is characterized by the out flowing of the centers
in the Buddhic and Manasic planes. Compassionate understanding and loving
ministry and service arise from the out flowing of the centers of the
solar angel and the lotus of the heart. Skillful intelligence is characterized
by the operation of the will principle through the mind, emotions and
physical body; the out flowing of thought, feeling and actions that create
the dynamic unfolding of human life and destiny here in the world. This
mantra invokes each of these qualities.
Invocation through mantra is widely used in both the Eastern and
Western spiritual traditions. It is a powerful means of liberating energy
and intelligence from within the psycho-spiritual vehicles, as do these
mantras. It can also invoke the Universal form of the Divine beyond it.
When you invoke the Universal form of the Divine, or the Guru (Master
or Christ) Principle that pervades the spiritual worlds, you receive the
outflow of Grace, illumination, and healing energies.
You call upon sources
of spiritual guidance and support that transcend your own spiritual evolutionary
potentials. It is, in the words of the poet, "a wave calling unto the
Shoreless Shore" or a "depth calling unto the Highest of the High." This
mantra is such a useful tool to liberate the creative intelligence of
these higher vehicles that correspond to the stages of the inner path.
Through the inspiration of these Superconscient energies, the human
mind and heart is seeded with the ideas and values that bear fruit as
righteous character and creative contributions to Humanity. These contributions
are not restricted to spiritual teaching or scholarship, as the work of
the Spirit can be seen in the form of literary and poetic works, as skillful
statesmanship, scientific or inventive genius, gifted painting and inspired
music, or in lives of moral courage and faith.
This down-pouring of the
Superconscious is the source of genius and the giver of gifts and talents
to humankind. It has brought us the comprehensive models of philosophy,
inspired mighty movements of world religion, ennobled men and women to
deeds of altruism and compassion, and given us the unique visions of artists
and architects.
We may soberly note, however, that the inspirations of the Superconscious
mind falling on minds not fully prepared to receive them has given rise
to fanaticism, holy wars and inquisitions, possession by forces of the
collective unconscious, and madness. Despotism and oppression have appeared
quickly on the wake of inspired ideals, thus we must be vigilant to not
be submerged in the tidal storms of mystic inspiration or the cyclonic
pressures of group consciousness without clearly seeing what constitutes
balanced development of spiritual essence and personal life. Thus we invoke:
May that Wisdom Mind, which sees the path, guide us safely to the Other
Shore and to Right Activity in the world.
For such balanced development, fully functioning in human life, and
alive to the infusions of the Supernal, is the goal of both Eastern and
Western traditions of spirituality.