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The Mantra : Om : Word
and Wisdom.
We are now considering not the Mahapurushas, or the great incarnations of God, but only the siddha-gurus, the teachers who have attained the goal. They as a rule, have to convey the germs of spiritual wisdom to the disciple by means of words (mantra) to be meditated upon. What are these mantras ? The whole of this universe has, according to Indian philosophy, both name and form (TTTH ) as its conditions of manifestation. In the human microcosm, there cannot be a single wave in the mindstuff (fr) unconditioned by name and form. If it be true that nature is built throughout on the same plan, this kind of conditioning by name and form must also be the plan of the building of the whole of the cosmos. "As one lump of clay being known, all clay
