The Garland of Letters: Essays on Tantra/ Mantra Sastra
By Sir John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon).
Description
This book is an attempt to explain to an English knowing reader an undoubtedly difficult subject. It is natural that, given the difficulty and the mystery which surrounds the subjects that strangers to India have failed to understand Mantra. They jumped to the conclusion that it is 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. The Mantra-Sastra is worthy of a close...
ISBN(s)
8178224003, 9788178224008
