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The constant call which might find a material expression in saying the mantra, but it's not even that: it's the SENSE, the sense of the call, of the aspiration—it's above all a call. A call. You know, when the mind wants to make sentences, it says, "Lord, take possession of Your kingdom." For certain things, I remember, when there are certain disorders, something wrong (and with the perception of a consciousness that has become very sharp, you can see when that disorder is the natural origin of an illness, for example, or of something very serious), with the call, the concentration and the response ... [the disorder is dissolved]. It's almost a surrender, because it's an uncalculating self-giving: the damaged spot opens to the Influence, not with an idea of getting cured, but like this (''gesture like a flower opening out''), simply like this, unconditionally—that is the most potent gesture. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/december-20-1967#p25</ref>

And on the other hand, the mantra gives me a feeling of a mental imposition, you understand? It's not something that springs up from the core of the cells. It's imposed. So it is set going for a time and is repeated—the mantra gets repeated the way any stupidity is repeated. And then after a time, something else comes. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/12/august-18-1971#p11</ref>