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CHAPTER I
THE DOCTRINAL BACKGROUND
Some nodal points of Saiva outlook.
I do not intend to list here the complex conceptual apparatus
of Saivite thought. In fact, such an endeavour would fail due to limited space
of a chapter. Therefore, we will touch on only a few and disparate problems which
are connected some now with the tantric topic.
a) Linguistical speculation.
Both for Saivism and for tantra the linguistical apparatus has
It can not be
a great importance in so far as it is conceived as an instrument for the supreme
self-awareness. Inasmuch as the ego (Aham) is subconsciousness, potential thought,
it is equally potential language and word. Language is not only a muscular and
acustical fact, but it is thinking itself which speaks inside us.
stopped or abolished to emerge into the waking state (BV, II, 195; SDr, II passim).
The zone of thought is inseparable from that of the word and both are found in the
depths of our subconsciousness. Thus, language is our subjectivity itself. This
latent cause of manifestation in the waking state is defined as follows: "Thinking
is made up of a flow of sounds which is arranged in an inner speech. This flow of
sounds is free of conventions and consists of a continuous wonder%3; it can be compa-
red with a signal inside the head; it is also the vital principle of all the con-
ventional words which are thrown out by the action of maya and which are made by
different letters, A etc." (LV, I, 205).
mantra (Raniero Gnoli
Aham as flow of sounds is the supreme mantra, the power of
Vac, Serie Orientale, Roma, 1959, p.170). The mantra
is, according to Saiva schools, an aspect of language very close to subconsciousness