This book is an attempt to explain to an English knowing reader an undoubtedly
difficult subject. It is natural that, given the difficulty and the mystery
which surrounds the subjects that strangers to India have failed to understand
Mantra. They jumped to the conclusion that it is meaningless superstition. This
is the familiar argument of the lower mind which says what I cannot understand
can have no sense at all. Mantra is, it is true, meaningless to those who do not
know its meaning. But there are others who do, and to them it is not
superstition.
The Mantra-Sastra is worthy of a close study which,