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Description:Pages: 319PrefaceThis book is an attempt, now made for the first time, to explain to an English-knowing reader an undoubtedly difficult subject. I am therefore forcibly reminded of the saying, Veda fears the man of little knowledge, since injury may be received from him (Bibhetyalpassutad-Vedo mamayam praharisyate). It is natural, given this difficulty and the mystery which surrounds the subject, that strangers to India should have failed to understand Mantra. They need not, however, have then (as some have done) jumped to the conclusion that it was meaningless superstition. This is the familiar argument of the lower mind which says what I cannot understand can have no sense at all. Mantra is, it is true, meaningless to those who do not know its meaning. But there are others who do, and to them it is not superstition. It is because some English-educated Indians are as uninstructed in the matter as that rather common type of Western to whose mental outlook and opinions they mould their own, that it was possible to find a distinguished member of this class describing Mantra as meaningless jabber. Indian doctrines and practice have been so long and so greatly misunderstood and misrepresented by foreigners, that it has always seemed to me a pity that those who are of this Punyabhumi should, through misapprehension, malign without reason anything which is their own. This does not mean that they must accept what is in fact without worth because it is Indian, but they should at least first understand what they condemn as worthless. When I first entered on a study of this sstra I did so in the belief that India did not contain more fools than exist amongst other peoples, but had on the contrary produced intelligences which (to say the least) were the equal of any elsewhere found. Behind the unintelligent practice, which doubtless to some extent exists amongst the multitudeWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Garland of Letters: Essays on Tantra/ Mantra Sastra. To get started finding The Garland of Letters: Essays on Tantra/ Mantra Sastra, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Pages: 319PrefaceThis book is an attempt, now made for the first time, to explain to an English-knowing reader an undoubtedly difficult subject. I am therefore forcibly reminded of the saying, Veda fears the man of little knowledge, since injury may be received from him (Bibhetyalpassutad-Vedo mamayam praharisyate). It is natural, given this difficulty and the mystery which surrounds the subject, that strangers to India should have failed to understand Mantra. They need not, however, have then (as some have done) jumped to the conclusion that it was meaningless superstition. This is the familiar argument of the lower mind which says what I cannot understand can have no sense at all. Mantra is, it is true, meaningless to those who do not know its meaning. But there are others who do, and to them it is not superstition. It is because some English-educated Indians are as uninstructed in the matter as that rather common type of Western to whose mental outlook and opinions they mould their own, that it was possible to find a distinguished member of this class describing Mantra as meaningless jabber. Indian doctrines and practice have been so long and so greatly misunderstood and misrepresented by foreigners, that it has always seemed to me a pity that those who are of this Punyabhumi should, through misapprehension, malign without reason anything which is their own. This does not mean that they must accept what is in fact without worth because it is Indian, but they should at least first understand what they condemn as worthless. When I first entered on a study of this sstra I did so in the belief that India did not contain more fools than exist amongst other peoples, but had on the contrary produced intelligences which (to say the least) were the equal of any elsewhere found. Behind the unintelligent practice, which doubtless to some extent exists amongst the multitudeWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Garland of Letters: Essays on Tantra/ Mantra Sastra. To get started finding The Garland of Letters: Essays on Tantra/ Mantra Sastra, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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