The Garland of Letters Motilal Banarsidass That the burning house is

That the burning house is not my private property should be clear to all my neighbours on this earth of ours

he published several books in Hindi and English translations of Kashmir Saiva texts

If was a work of quality and fidelity

which derived from the cult of Amitabha but grew to such importance that it displaced the latter as the focus of worship in medieval Japan

The hope expressed has not remained unfulfilled

The Garland of Letters Motilal Banarsidass That the burning house isThis book is an attempt to explain to an English knowing reader an undoubtedly difficult subject. It is natural that given the difficulty and the mystery that surrounds the subjects strangers to India have failed to understand Mantra. They jumped to the conclusion that it is meaningless superstition. This is the familiar argument of the lower mind which says what I cannot understand can have no sense at all. Mantra is, it is true, meaningless to those