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

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its object. The “I” mediator then imbues the symbolic representation
of the concept of light or Yantra or object or
picture with magical powers to save, transform, give, protect,
redeem, grant grace, liberate, etc.
Yantra worship is a preliminary practice, which leads
(hopefully) to Samadhi (with seeds). However, the Veil of
consciousness is that the “I” imagines it is doing something, will
get something, and that it is made of a different substance than
the Yantra, which will bestow some form of “enlightenment.”
Moreover, it must be understood that the concept of light
and its condensed-abstracted symbolic representation called
Yantra as solidified light is still part of the mirage. In other
words, meditating on a Mantra, its meaning, or to develop
a “spiritual”quality still presupposes and represents an “I” in
the mirage. The Yantra is a symbol, which exists only through
the nervous system, and hence, prior to it is NOT. Moreover,
the symbol has no connection to the symbolized!!
“There is . . . no necessary connection between the
symbol and that which is symbolized. . . . Symbols and
things symbolized are independent of each other; nevertheless,
we all have a way of feeling as if, and sometimes
acting as if, there were necessary connections. . . . The
habitual confusion of symbols with things symbolized,
whether on the part of individuals or societies, is serious
enough at all levels of culture to provide a perennial
human problem.” (Hayakawa, Language in Thought and
Action, pp. 22-24)
An archetype is intermittently made of light, and ultimately
is ONLY NOTHING. The concept of light cannot be
without an I am, which is a by-product of a nervous system
that “says” “this is light”; hence, no I am concept, no light or
Yantra concept—and No-You.