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THE MANTRAM: OM : WORD
AND WISDOM
But we are now considering not these Mahâpurushas, the great incarnations, but only the Siddha-Gurus (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 (717499) as its conditions of manifestation. In the human microcosm, there cannot be a single wave in the mind-stuff (formerer), 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. per te para fames a på mat fasta era “As one lump of clay being known, all things of clay are known," so the knowledge of the microcosm must lead to the knowledge of the macrocosm. Now, form is the outer crust, of which the name or the idea is the inner essence or kernel. The body is the form, and the mind or the Antahkarana is the name, and sound-symbols are universally associated with TA (name) in all beings having the power of speech. In the individual man the thought-waves rising in the limited #67 (Mahat) or Ferat (mind-stuff) must mani
