Morari Bapu: Norway, the land of the midnight sun, the fourth day of Ram Katha in Tromso, the land of the midnight sun, in the special presence of story-loving Indians, Gujaratis, writers, poets, creators, worshippers of the word, Bapu said the third stanza of Mantrashtak:
Mantra of Mahamani, the subject of fire; It is destroyed by the well.
This mantra was composed by Shiva to escape from Kaliyug. Chanting Ram's name with the intellect also gives the result of a Mahamantra. Bapu said that the entire Ramcharit is a Mahamantra. Each quatrain is a mantra like the Vedas, we call all of them Veda Mantras.
Chanting of mantras selected from the four Vedas at the beginning and end of the Ram Katha
In this Ram Katha, every day at the beginning and end of the Ram Katha, a mantra from the four Vedas is sung. One meaning of mantra is also medicine. Mantra is a treatment. Bapu said that O parents, sky is our medicine. If any expert tells you and says that if we consume it in this way, then it destroys Bhaavbhej, that is, Tulsidasji says: Jaasu naam Bhaavbhej-Bhavrog is your name, which destroys Bhaavrog.
Ganga is a herb
Ram Katha is also a herb. Bapu said that if a child breaks a toy, his world ends, but after some time he understands and a new world is created, the scriptures say that it takes time to get out of it! And what is needed to let go?
Place a tree, some place on the plank where the bag of problems can be hung on a peg.
Trust is a word which is not even found in correct English, but it can be called unconditional faith or unconditional surrender – be. Conditional surrender is trust. Today Bapu said a good thing that we are bringing the problems of the whole world to our home. But put a tree or any such place on our platform where the bag of problems can be put on a peg and go inside. Because the family waits, it has nothing to do with our problem. Never take worries home.
Have complete faith in five places: parents, Guru, Gurudutt Granth, Gurudutt Mantra and Gurudutt
These five will cure our disease on Ishta. Einstein was asked whether his science is a mantra or not? Einstein said that I do not know but first of all a process starts in the mind, then in the same process the word is found and the mind repeats it again and again and then after success in the experiment I make it public, it is magic.
First of all chanting mantra in mind is mental chanting. And after a certain point you don't have to chant mantra, some work is going on outside, a process is going on inside, which is called Ajapa chanting, then in mind we keep saying it and then it goes up and becomes Janta. Manasi then Upanshu chanting and what happens next. Chaitanya Mahapurush has given such treatment of name mantra.
After some time the child gets the world. We have Buddha Purush, name, scriptures. Are you worried about Shid? Let Krishna do whatever he wants to do! Bapu strengthened this by reciting this shloka again and again. First trust the parents, then the Guru, trust his word.
If literature removes problems then can't Ramcharitmanas remove our problems?
A great poet named Mammat says for the epic that poetry gives happiness, success, joy, literature also destroys sorrows and preaches in the form of a wife, so can't Ramcharitmanas remove our adversities? So also trust the book given by Ishta, Mantra and Guru.
Bapu repeatedly stressed his point on faith and said that he also said that faith should not be placed on a person but on God. Do not get stuck on a person, Morari Bapu or we storytellers will keep coming and going, but have faith in the scriptures, God.