The authors of science and sacred Hindu texts already knew that the world was created from sound. For millennia, people have been reciting versed excerpts from them, "powerful words", i.e. mantras, and passing them on to subsequent generations. Belief in the magical effect of these sacred syllables, words and word combinations is limitless. The Swiss Gertrud Hirschi, a popular expert on Hinduism, offers the reader all her knowledge of mantras from various traditions. In addition to pronunciation, emphasis and posture, it reveals which mantra is suitable for health, an alert spirit or spiritual development, as a help with material worries. Those who try them will experience a wonderful, pleasant form of meditation.

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