The Difference between Decrees and Eastern Mantras For thousands of years mystics have believed that repeating sacred words and prayers would propel them into union with God. They also used mantras for ailments of mind and body. Hindu and Buddhist monks repeated mantras for healing everything from depression to fevers. People who have tried both decrees and Eastern mantras say that decrees have a much more immediate and tangible effect. Martha used Eastern meditation and mantras for twenty-three years. She repeated the Hindu Gayatri mantra, one of the most sacred verses of the Rig-Veda, nearly six thousand times a day. Several years ago she began using the violet flame. Now she repeats the violet-flame mantra “I AM a being of violet fire! I AM the purity God desires!” as many times a day as she can. “Chanting and decreeing are two different things,” she says. She believes both are necessary but now devotes the bulk of her time to
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