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The right formula ( "mantram") and the right stone in the hand -- and a man had a wonderful power over the gods themselves.
The Jesus of History T. R. Glover
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This word is a mantram, a sound formula that has a specific effect on the mind when it is repeated or heard.
American Yoga Association Beginner’s Manual Fully Revised and Updated Alice Christensen 2010
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This word is a mantram, a sound formula that has a specific effect on the mind when it is repeated or heard.
American Yoga Association Beginner’s Manual Fully Revised and Updated Alice Christensen 2010
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Om—A mantram used before meditation to help the practitioner experience silence.
American Yoga Association Beginner’s Manual Fully Revised and Updated Alice Christensen 2010
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Om—A mantram used before meditation to help the practitioner experience silence.
American Yoga Association Beginner’s Manual Fully Revised and Updated Alice Christensen 2010
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The solemn _mantram_ has been uttered: _Let thy heart be even as my heart is.
Sadhana : the realisation of life Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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Professor Max Muller divides the mantram ( "Agnihi Poorwebhihi," etc.) philologically and chronologically, and, finding in it the word hiranya-garbha, he denounces it as an anachronism.
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The adjective "pure" must be understood in the figurative sense of the mantram.
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The word hiranya in this mantram must be translated "divine light" -- mystically a symbol of knowledge; analogically the alchemists used the term "sublimated gold" for "light," and hoped to compose the objective metal out of its rays.
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The ancients, he says, had no knowledge of gold, and, therefore, if gold is mentioned in this mantram it means that the mantram was composed at a comparatively modern epoch, and so on.
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