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Mantra, Yantra And Sound: A Scientific Analysis
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possesses infinite achievements (Ananta-labdhi i.e. infinite extra-ordinary powers), is propitiated. śri Gautamasvāmi and all other Ganadharas i.e. main disciples of Tirthankaras, the authors of the twelve Anga sūtras and all holy Ācāryas, well-versed in fourteen pūrvas, are called Śrutakēvalis. One of their epithets is 'Savvakakhara Sannivāiņam' i.e. He who knows all Vidyās (mystic sciences) composed of all various kinds of combinations of all letters.""?
Besides, sri Gautamasvāmi, Saraswati, the presiding goddess of all shastras, the knowledge obtained through all kinds of letters, sri Tribhuvanasvāmini Dēvi, goddess, predominating influence on all the three fold world and lives on Mt. Manuşõttara, Laxmi Dēvi (sridevi) goddess of wealth, śri Yakşarāja Gaņipitaka , the god of the corpus of twelve Anga sūtras, Jain religious texts, presiding gods and goddesses of the dispensation of the twenty-four Tirthankaras i.e. Yaksas and Yakşiņis, Sixty four Indras, the governor of nine treasures, sixteen Vidyādēvis, i.e. goddesses of different types of mystic science, nine planets etc. are also propitiated."
There is no doubt that those who perform this propitiation become great and powerful. Besides, since Ācāryas helm the affairs of the Jainism they need to acquire the strength to ward off the calamities that may be fall the Jain dispensation. Through propitiation of mantras, they get the support and presence of gods.
In the present day society, there is a class of people who remain engaged in uttering mantras, yantras and tantras and they spread blind faith to serve their own interest. There is another class of people who believes that mantra, yantras are absolutely false. There are many people who do not understand the science of mantra. They jest and joke and say that it is full of rumours and misapprehensions. They do not know the power of words/sounds. They. therefore, believe that those who believe in the science of mantra are foolish and backward and deride them. Both these classes of people hold that their beliefs are true. Of course, some change has come of late. Those who believed mantras, yantras and tantras to be absolutely false, slowly but certainly accept mantras, yantras and tantras.
Really speaking, their beliefs are based on only scientific proofs of mantras, yantras and tantras. Currently, a special type of research work on mantras, yantras and tantras is in progress in the western countries. The
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