The Essence of Manifestation
The Prapanchasara Tantra: Sound, Letter, and Mantra in the Making of the World

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
The great Tantra of sound and letter, attributed to Shankara, complete in a new translation from the Sanskrit.

How does the one become the many? The Prapanchasara Tantra answers: through sound. From the silent point comes resonance, from resonance the fifty letters of the Sanskrit alphabet, and from the letters, which are the body of the goddess of speech, every world and every mantra. This vast work in thirty-three chapters traces the creation of the universe and of the human body, the channels and the coiled power, initiation and the placing of letters on the body, and the mantras, meditations, diagrams and fire offerings of the gods and goddesses.

Complete, with a translator’s introduction, notes, glossary and index.

Sanskrit Classics, Volume X. Translated from the Sanskrit, with an introduction, notes, glossary, bibliography and index, by Rob Newton M.D.