Dear Valerie, I don’t have anything to say at the moment about the yantra, but I expect the son either meant to write tat tvam asi ’you are that' but wrote instead tat tvam āsa ‘you were that’, or he deliberately wrote tat tvam āsa. In this familiar saying tat tvam asi (Chāndogya Upaniṣat 6.8.7), tat means sat or brahman.
Elliot M. Stern 552 South 48th Street Philadelphia, PA 19143-2029 [email protected] 267-240-8418 > On Apr 12, 2022, at 4:19 PM, Valerie Roebuck via INDOLOGY > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear indology list > > Could you please advise Dr Jackie Hirst about the tattoo design shown in the > attached picture? > > She says: ‘It is a sketch, now in the possession of a father, that was found > in the effects of his son, a young man who died tragically recently, and the > family are keen to know what it means. He was interested in the Upaniṣads and > the Bhagavad Gītā amongst other things and frequently sketched lotuses. Would > anyone be able to shed more light on this as a particular (basic indication > of a) yantra and/or on the particular (mainly nāgarī) characters which do not > seem to make sense as a word/words - could they be (an attempt to indicate) > specific individual seed mantras? or? If anyone has any further ideas, and > how to convey them sensitively to the family, please reply to the list and/or > to Jackie direct ([email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> - Honorary Research Fellow South > Asian Studies). With many thanks.' > > Below is a Dropbox link to the design in question. It’s shared with the > permission of the family. > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/ic44yzw6mfp1jo1/Brett%20Holscher%20tattoo%20picture.jpg?dl=0 > > <https://www.dropbox.com/s/ic44yzw6mfp1jo1/Brett%20Holscher%20tattoo%20picture.jpg?dl=0> > > Valerie J Roebuck > Manchester, UK > > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
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