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The Garland of Letters

The Garland of Letters

Woodroffe, John George

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesHinduism

ISBN10: 1975937783
ISBN13: 9781975937782
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 31 2017
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THIS 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 . 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.

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