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I do it all the time, while sleeping, while walking, while eating, while working, all the time. And that's how a mantra has life: when it wells up all the time, spontaneously, like the cry of your being—there is no need of effort or concentration: it's your natural cry. Then it has full power, it is alive. It must well up from within.... No guru can give you that.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/may-11-1963#p5</ref>

Nobody can give you the true mantra. It's not something that is given: it's something that wells up from within. It must spring from within all of a sudden, spontaneously, like a profound, intense need of your being—then it has power, because it's not something that comes from outside, it's your very own cry. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/may-11-1963#p2</ref>