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Shakti and Shâkta Essays and Addresses on the Shâkta Tantrashâstra

1918

In a review of one of my works it was suggested that the Agama is a class of scriptures dealing with the worship of Saguna Ishvara which was revealed at the close of the ago of the age of the Upanishads and introduced partly because of the faling into desuetude of the Vaidik Achára and partly because of the icreasing numbers of persons entering the Hindu fold who were not competent (AdhikAri [...] I am not here concerned with this special ritual or magic but with the practices which govern the life of the vastmass of the Indian people to be found in the Tautras of the Agamas of the different schools which I have mentioned. [...] It is however the fact that each of the followers of the different schools of Agama contend that their interpretation of the Shruti texts is the true one and superior to that of other schools. [...] If they said with or in anticipation of one Professor that the Vedas were " the babbling of a child humanity" and the BrAhmanas " the drivel of mamen" or with another that the thought of the Upanishads was so " low " that it could not be correctly rendered in the high English language; that in " treating of Indian philosophy a writer has to deal with thoughts of a lower order than the thoug [...] In the same way a Shastra is truly such if the Siddhi which it claims to give is gained as the fruit of the practice of its injunctions according to the competency and under the conditions prescribed.
philosophy religion
Pages
216
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146916
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i John Woodroffe view
Frontmatter
i-i John Woodroffe view
What are the Tantras and their Significance ?
1-9 John Woodroffe view
Tantra Shâstra & Veda
10-29 John Woodroffe view
Shakti and Shâkta
30-52 John Woodroffe view
Chit-Shakti
53-76 John Woodroffe view
Mâyâ-Shakti
77-109 John Woodroffe view
Shakti & Mâyâ
110-120 John Woodroffe view
The Origin of Mantra
121-137 John Woodroffe view
Varnamâla
138-142 John Woodroffe view
Shâkta Sâdhanâ
143-168 John Woodroffe view
Kundalinî Shakti
169-186 John Woodroffe view
Some Conclusions
187-191 John Woodroffe view
Backmatter
i-xvi John Woodroffe view

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