lore was finally written down in a remote past as the world’s longest epic poems, the MAHABHARATA and the RAMAYANA. PURANAS are literally “ancient” allegories; TANTRAS literally mean “rites” or “rituals”; these treatises convey profound truths under a veil of detailed symbolism.
{FN10-7} “Divine teacher,” the customary Sanskrit term for one’s spiritual preceptor. I have rendered it in English as simply “Master.”
CHAPTER: 11
lore was finally written down in a remote past as the world’s longest epic poems, the MAHABHARATA and the RAMAYANA. PURANAS are literally “ancient” allegories; TANTRAS literally mean “rites” or “rituals”; these treatises convey profound truths under a veil of detailed symbolism.
{FN10-7} “Divine teacher,” the customary Sanskrit term for one’s spiritual preceptor. I have rendered it in English as simply “Master.”
CHAPTER: 11
