biosoundbill wrote: > I fully understand what the word 'Sri' and sometimes > 'Shri' means, it's used as a respectful affix to > mantras etc. > All I wanted to point out, Bill, is that you have not included any actual tantric bija mantras - you've just been posting words and phrases found in any Sanskrit dictionary. In fact, there are no actual Hindu bija mantras, there are only Tantric Buddhist bija mantras.
All the Buddhist Tantras were composed long before Hindu Tantricism was invented. Almost all Hindu bija mantras are just phonemes or quasi phonemes overheard at Buddhist yoga camp meets. They are gibberish, pure and simple. Sounds made up to imitate Buddhist bija mantras. To repeat, there is no actual Hindu Tantic bija mantras. There is only Buddhist Tantricism, that is derived from the tradition of the Nath Siddhas, the 84 Mahasiddhas who invented Indian alchemy. You must be going to a real Buddhist teacher who has been initiated into the Tantra Yoga tradition - you can learn nothing about tantra from an Indian pilot in downtown Oakland. All the Hindu tantric traditions are just so much mish-mash, mixed-up, conglomerations of pseudo-tantra invented in order to confuse the people by making common household sounds a big secret - mysticism. Selling water down by the river. For example, the mono syllable OM is not even a mantra, or at most a mantra by courtesy only. The mono syllable OM is not included in the Rig Veda - it was probably made up by a fakir who was stoned out on cannibis indica. If there were any Hindu tantras or bija mantras they would have been mentioned by the Adi Shankara, Vallabha, Ramanuja, or Madhva. The so-called maha-mantra espoused by Chaitanya is just a collection so many words from Sanskrit grammar books - nothing esoteric at all.
