Your original Bija mantra is a pure transcendent sound with no meaning. Its primary job was to give you access to transcendence for you to release stress. In the first year of meditation, our focus is on clearing out the nervous system of stress and preparing ourselves for the second phase. We won’t always transcend but we move up and down between the absolute and the relative.

The first Advanced Technique (you can receive a new one every year for many years to come!) is designed to take our awareness to that sweet, subtle layer of consciousness where our mind can think and also can ‘Be’ simultaneously. As a result, we find that the peaceful, spacious state that we slip into our deepest meditations starts to become integrated into every moment of our awakened state.  

So that in itself gives us a nicer and richer experience of life through the senses. But it also has the very practical effect and power to refine our capacity to detect ‘charm’ and it also picks up on the seeds of the future in the making. Rather than waiting for a big change to come and surprise you, you start to pick up on the microscopic changes, so you are much less likely to suffer as most of our suffering comes from things hitting us unexpectedly.