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gnostico revaluing depth liturgy archaic traditions concerning the "mystical sound.
The dharani, literally "that which holds or locks, and served in Vedic times as" support
"and" defense "of the concentration (Dharana), hence the name raksa Kavac and"
protection "" co-race " , which also are given. For the uninitiated, the dharani are talismanes
*: protect against demons, disease and male-efits. But for ascetics, yogis, the
contemplative, the dharani become instruments of concentration, either through
pranayama rhythmic, and mentally repeat during the phases of respiration. It is
sometimes possible to guess the meaning of certain words mutilated (WABA, Vimala,
hime, does it matter, kale, etc.., Expressing notions of purity, snow, etc..; Cchinde, which
suggests the act of tearing, cutting, etc. .), but in most cases is extrafios phonemes and
inintiligibles: Hrim, Hram, hrum, phat. etcetera. As probably the dharani were used and
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8 Text and critical bibliography: Note VI, 5.
during guided meditations by the invention
cion fonetica necessarily limited to a certain number of syllables, es-taba offset by the
deep resonance within such "so-mystical nests. Moreover, whatever the historical origin
of dharani, were certainly the value of a secret language of initiation. Indeed, these
sounds only revealed his message during meditation. To the layman, the dharani were
ininteligi-able: its "meaning not belong to the rational language, used for the
communication of experiences lay. A dharani, a man-anger revealed its meaning only
when they were delivered according to the rules and the like, ie discovery, "awake." This
process will be better understood when we take the metaphysical involutions in
mantrayana-CRADA.
Phonemes discovered during the meditation expressing states of consciousness probably
estruclura "cosmic" hard to express through a secular terminology. Experiences of this
kind were known in Vedic times, although the few documents that have been transmitted
to us rather be content with alu-making, mainly in the form of images and symbols. Thus
we have a spiritual technique clearly archaic certain "ecstasy Cosmi-ing" of the shamans
are expressed font'ticas inventions which sometimes unintelligible to the creation of a
"secret language" (our Shamanism, pag. 99 et seq.) . It is therefore supportive of the
discovery experience of language in a way, and that by ecstatic vuclia a primary situation,
provo-can the outbreak of daily consciousness. The entire effort is used in tantric yogi
"awakening this primordial awareness and rediscover the preceding pler.itud to language
and consciousness of time. The trend towards a" rediscovery of language, "for the
purpose of comprehensively to revalue worldly experience, is revealed in Tantrism,
especially by the use of "lexical secrets" (see page. 248).
The dharani, as the mantra, you learn from "the mouth of the teacher" (gurucaktratah) is
not because of phonemes belonging to profane language or that one can learn from
books: one must "receive". But once received from the lips of the teacher, the mantra has
unlimited powers. A tantric text of the first order, as Sadhanamala not hesitate to say the
following: ^ What's that can not be done by the mantra, if implemented according to the
rules? (ed. Bhattacharya, p. 575). You can even get the condition of Buddha (idem, p.
270). The mantra lokanatha, for example, can absolve the sins pray May (ibid., p. 31, and
eka-jata mantra is so powerful that the moment he pronounces it, the initiate is free from
all danger and reaches the sacredness of the Buddha (idem, p. 262). All siddhis ks, of any
kind that are-from success in love to the obtaining of salvaci6n-obtsnidas by taies