--- In [email protected], boyboy_8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I too am no expert in the vagueries of mantra meanings. The > point is that they are phrases...meaningless sounds whose > meaning is known?
(Semantically) meaningless sounds whose *effects* are known. > Maybe the meaning is that they invoke an energy whose > association is known and is found within Indian religious > systems? Or within *all* religious systems, i.e., within human experience. <snip> > We were told to cut down sacred trees > in Palestine because of what they represented to the people who > worshipped them. The tree by itself was not a danger; it was the > fact that we might find the worship of a tree of interest and > before you know it we're off the path. This is revealing.
