About the Book:

Contents:

1.    Introduction

2.    A Mountain of Scholarship

3.    Crossing Over

4.    Are There Revelations Today?

5.    Body-Yantra: Sahasrakshi Meru Temple, Devipuram

6.    Self-Made: Svayam Siddha Kali Pitham, Guntur

7.    “I Am in Mantra, Mantra Is in Me”: Nachiketa Tapovan, Kodgal

8.    Understanding Mantra Again

About the Author:

“Mani Rao moves beyond aesthetic and linguistic interpretations to elaborate mantra as an activating force and transformative embodied. Mantra deities, practitioners, communities of practice, even authoritative texts, emerge as dynamic, evolving assemblages of meaning, knowing and feeling. We are invited to think of mantra as a form of potency dynamized by the agency of its practitioners. An insightful, gripping and accessible scholarly work.”