corruption of mantras and yantras

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, kalipadma@j... wrote:

> Although, as someone here (Swastik?) said a couple of months ago,

some of the yantras are purposely drawn "wrong" -- like Ganesha's

yantra having the shatkona (six-pointed star) INSIDE the triangle,

instead of the other way around... or Kali's yantra being upside

down.

 

Not only upside down but having 3 triangles inspite of 5!

(perhaps, that is a result of misunderstanding of Kali-tantra's

passage which describes this yantra).

 

Yes, we get such problems in western commercialised editions of

"tantric knowledge for dummies" . In India the problem stays also -

usually indians do not care to check up anything, they are too lazy.

As a result u get sometimes wrong mantras, wrong yantras etc.

 

Just recently i have seen modern tantric paddhati (sanskrit-hindi)

with ridiculous name "Kali Kitaab". And there Kalika sahasranama was

lacking 11 verses (!) from it's beginning while 22 lettered vidya of

Kali was lacking 2 bijas...

In another popular "tantric" book published in India is saw Adya-kali

mantra with "krOM" inspite of "krIM" (not a big problem for publishers

LOL, both letters in devanagari look similar).

And in Kokilarnava (out of which only 1 chapter was published) i

encountered wrong mantra of 10 Mahavidyas - which was constructed by

some "pandit" who translated the text into hindi on the base of the

description given - some bija was missing and another one was added

just to fit the number of letters to what is was supposed to be!

 

So, we have to have needed oral explanations from right people and

then have to read sanskrit originals of scriptures. It is rather

dangerous to rely of hindi and english "translations", 'coz in many

cases they are ugly.

 

A.