The Garland of Letters

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Religious
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Author: Sir John Woodroffe ISBN: 1230001864120
Publisher: Kar Publishing Publication: September 9, 2017
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Sir John Woodroffe
ISBN: 1230001864120
Publisher: Kar Publishing
Publication: September 9, 2017
Imprint:
Language: English

T H E GARLAND OF LETTERS (VARṆAMĀLĀ) 

STUDIES IN THE MANTRA-ŚĀSTRA BY SIR JOHN WOODROFFE 

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” ( Bibhetyalpaśrutād-
Vedo mām-ayaṃ 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 kmow 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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T H E GARLAND OF LETTERS (VARṆAMĀLĀ) 

STUDIES IN THE MANTRA-ŚĀSTRA BY SIR JOHN WOODROFFE 

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” ( Bibhetyalpaśrutād-
Vedo mām-ayaṃ 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 kmow 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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