You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

CHApER 9
The Veil of the Concept
of Mantras—
Yantras—Tantras
THe IllusION OF GeTTING
Or HAVING A PerMANeNT exPerIeNCe
THe CONCePT OF MANTrA
THE illUSiOn Of THE COnCEpT
Of SOUnD AnD WORDS 1
“The essence of all mantras consists in letters or
sounds, [and] the essence of all letters or sounds is Siva
[THAT ONE SUBSTANCE].”
(Singh, Pratyabhijnahrdayam, p. 79)
Once the abstracting continues beyond the object level,
I am, the verbal I am arises. From the verbal I am arises an
infinite number of possible inferences. It is, therefore, clear
that the concept of sound and the concepts and inferences,
1 See The Way of the Human: Volume III (Chapter III: The Collective
Unconscious and the Archetypical Dimension) for a deeper explanation
of the concept of sound. Also see page 177 in this book, You Are Not, for
an enquiry into the nature of sound.
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