One of my readers suggested to me that I should write
something on as that can be very useful in many ways. There are several
authors who have done it before. I myself have written one book ("A mantra to enhance your mental capabilities"). But my effort
has been to rationalize the practice and explain it in scientific terms.
But what I see now-a-days is that people seem to be least
bothered about scientific basis or otherwise of several mysterious practices –
be it mantra chanting or some weird hand gestures (called
mudras) – that are supposed to be a cure-all for all our problems. Going by their
popularity, I wonder whether science has become obsolete!
Mantra (mono syllabic) and mudra are remnants of age old
tantric practices – the other three that are left out being liquor, meat and
ritual sex (mantra, mudra, madira, maamsa, maithuna – the five ‘M’s of tantric
practice). If one looks at the tantric books, the first principles of tantra
are completely anti scientific – secrecy, subjectivity, total surrender to the teacher,
acceptance without questioning, total rejection of reasoning, and so on.
If tantra can really achieve things as claimed, in spite of
its being anti-science, it is high time that we redefine science.
Continued
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