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Modern Review August 1921

1921

We find that the mysticism of the Tantras has been built up on the basis of that mystic doctrine of the unity of the soul and of all with the Brahman which is prclaimed in the oldest Upanishads and which belongs to the most profound speculations which the Indian spirit has imagined. [...] To the worship of the Devi the Goddess who is the joyously creative energy of nature belong the "five true things" ( panchatattva ) through which mankind enjoy gladly prserve their life and procreate ; intoxicating drink which is a great medicine to man a breaker of sorrows and a source of pleasure ; meat of the animals in the villages in the air and in the forests which is-nutritious an [...] ( These last consist in putting the tips of the fingers and the flat of the right hand with certain mantras on the various parts of the body in order by that to fill one's own body with the life of the Devi ). By the application Of all these means the worshipper renders the Deity willing and forces him into his service and becomes a Sadhaka a magician. [...] where a description is given how the wives of the gods demons and demgods impelled by mantcas come to the magician the Sadhaka oppressed by the great ness of their desires." In the XVIII chapter the mantras and the dhyanas ( me.ditations) for the adoration of the god of love and his Shaktis are taught and the union of man and woman is represented as a mystic union of the "I" (AkanKkara) [...] The Prapanchasara which does not even deal with the rite against which most objetion has been taken ( while the Malianirvana does ) treats of the creation of the %%odd the generation of bodies phYsiillogy the classification of the letters the -Kalas Japa Ilona the Gayatri Mantra.
government politics public policy
Pages
153
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120016
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i Ramananda Chatterjee view
The Oppress of on the Poor
137-142 C.F. Andrews view
The Tantras and Religion of the Shaktas
142-150 M. Winternitz view
The Secret of Success of Java Cane-Sugar Industry:a Lesson to India
150-152 M. Ahsanulla, Yousuf Ahmed view
A Japanese Charcoal Burner
152-152 W.W Pearson view
Into the Twentieth Century;The Eclipse of Parlament
153-159 unknown view
Publicity in Organization Methods
159-166 Ram Khemka view
Toru Dutt
166-169 unknown view
A Rising Indian Sculptor
169-173 unknown view
Gleanings
174-183 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
184-190 A.M. view
Lancashire’s Attack upon India’s Fiscal Autonomy—III
191-197 Nihal Singh view
End of Fighting among Nations
197-200 Syama Ganguli view
Social Life in the Mahabharatan Age—IV
200-204 unknown view
The First Lord Minto’s Indian Administration
204-210 unknown view
Letters from Rabindranath Tagore
210-211 unknown view
Comment and Criticism
212-214 Rama Iyer view
Indian Periodicals
214-227 unknown view
Foreign Periodicals
227-248 unknown view
Notes
249-276 unknown view