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Re: Significance of Secrecy in prayers



GOPAL  Ganapathiraju Sree Ramana (gopal@ecf.toronto.edu) wrote:

:  guhyaath guhyatharam param 

Dear Gopalji:

It is more a matter of tradition than anything else. As you know, there 
are many examples of this secrecy in Upanishads.  The one example that I 
can think of is I believe, in Chandogya Upanishad, when Svetaketu went to 
the kshatriya king to learn.  The kshatriya king was in possession of a 
secret vidya that was till then, only available to kshatriyas.  The king 
however, shared his vidya with Svetaketu.

The illreputed tradition that limits the pronouncement of Om in a mantra 
to the initiated (dikshita), also seems a secondary outcome of this 
parampara tradition. It is indicated in one of the first few verses of 
Chandogya that by saying Om, one declares that he/she knows the meaning 
of the mantra and agrees with the meaning of the mantra.

With best regards,

Dhruba.
 


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