Small correction: tat tvam āsa would mean ’that was you’. > On Apr 12, 2022, at 6:00 PM, Elliot Stern <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] <mailto:[email protected]> > 267-240-8418 > >> On Apr 12, 2022, at 4:19 PM, Valerie Roebuck via INDOLOGY >> <[email protected] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > > > >
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