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Om is the most sacred mantra in major Indic religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. It symbolizes affirmation, benediction and peace, and is used ritualistically in Prayers, invocations and ceremonies symbol beyond compare and is regarded as a vehicle of attainting liberation (moksha). Not only this at the highest level it is identified Reality.
Using the Vedas Upanishads Yoga Tantra and several religious texts as his sources the author describes a ...
Rituals are recurring stylized behavior and in repetition the ritual becomes rhythmic.
The author beautifully portrays the types of rituals and the rhythms they generate from the babbling of a child to a band parade or the chanting of a mantra he explain the initiation and completion of patterns that form the rhythm.
The book further proceeds to ‘Hermeneutics’ or the science of interpretation and attempts to explain rituals in their light.
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Einstein's theory of relativity which appeared in the early twentieth century. Shook many fundamental concepts in physics such as space, time, mass, energy and gravitation. However, it led to many misconceptions. Lay persons often equated it with the concept of non-absolutism, relativity or relativism which is found in many philosophical systems.
Unfortunately, the theory spawned many misconceptions. Lay persons asserted, "Everything is relative", ...
Two theories, relativity theory and quantum theory shook the very foundation of physics in the 20th century. Of the two, quantum theory reveals a truly mysterious sub-atomic world with its mind-boggling phenomena. For example, such entities as electrons, protons and photons (light particles)or waves as the occasion demands. This is called matter-wave duality.
In Buddhist philosophy scholars have found a doctrine called catuskoti which is astonishingly similar to ...
We usually treat mathematics as an exact science. But if a mathematician tells you that there are infinitely many zeros, and adds that the integer zero is not the same as the fraction “zero upon one”, which differs from the rational zero which in turn is different from the real zero, you are bound to be shocked. You will be equally stunned if a student of tantra tells you that there is little difference between sunya (zero) and infinity.This book ...
In this book the author discusses the place of science in rituals and mantras. Using structural analysis he shows that rituals in general, whether religious, political, social or otherwise, have common structural patterns. These patterns are shared by poetry, music, dance and gymnastics, but not by language. Consideration of animal rituals and pathological (compulsive) rituals leads him to propose a general theory which unifies all ritual-like activities. Part I ...
This book is about numbers and so many questions relating to them. What is the nature of numbers? Are they discovered or invented? What is mystical about them? Mathematicians develop a hierarchy of numbers in which mysterious dichotomies appear. For example, the integar 5 is not the same as the rational 5 which in turn is different from the real 5. The author explains how this conceptual maze does not affect the layperson's ...