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Scientific Secrets of Jainism
secrets of mantras, yantras and tantras are presented in scientific ways through various books.
A yantra is a graphic representation of sounds of words made of combinations of letters of a mantra." Recently I came across a book 'Yantra' published from England. A scientist named Ronald Nameth passed the sounds of the Sri Sukta mantra with the help of a scientific instrument through the electronic vibration filed and the sounds were transformed into diagram of the śriyantra. A permanent picture of this is given in the book.20
This means that the Sriyantra is nothing but a figure form i.e. diagram of the sounds of śrisukta. As sounds are printed on a gramophone record or a magnetic tape, so any mantra, if it is passed through the above-mentioned instrument can be transformed into a diagram. There are some people who believe that mantras can be transformed back from their diagrams i.e. yantras, as sounds can be transformed back from a gramophone record or a magnetic
ver, as modern science transforms energy into material particles(matter) and matter into energy, so yantras i.e. mystic diagrams can be transformed into mantras and mantras can be transformed into yantras. Therefore, yantras and mantras can be replaced by each other.21
Great sages of ancient times could, perhaps, see with their supernatural vision, the diagrams of mantras that they gratified with their recitation of mantras, the presiding deities, perhaps, showed them the diagram of the corresponding mantras. Later on, the great mantra-reciters, perhaps, draw the figures of yantras of the corresponding mantras on barks of birch trees or palmleaves with writing materials. Perhaps through this tradition the diagrams of yantras have come to us.
Really speaking, a yantra is one kind of combination of various geometrical figures. As mantras are made of combinations of different consonants and vowels, so various yantras are made of combinations of geometrical figures of different types. Every yantra has its presiding god or goddess. As the form or the name of the god or goddess changes, the mantra and the yantra also change. All these mantras and yantras are in the form of matter i.e. pudgala and that is why they are inert and not alive. i.e. having no desired effect.22 There are special processes of making them vital or effective. Yantras can be made vital through their original mantras. In order to make mantras alive, the
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| SR No. | 001603 |
| Book Title | Scientific Secrets of Jainism |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Nandighoshvijay |
| Publisher | Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad |
| Publication Year | 2001 |
| Total Pages | 378 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English, Science, Religion, & Articles |
| File Size | 21 MB |