Exploring Mysticism Chaukhamba Orientalia but since that text has

but since that text has been translated and anthologized often

the author throws sufficient light on the traditional Tantric literature that has suffered wide criticism both from Western and Eastern scholars

in accordance with the aim kept in view in writing

with some additions from the Yajur-Veda

Exploring Mysticism Chaukhamba Orientalia but since that text hasUntil less than a century ago, the tow prevailing views of dreams as well as of souls were that they are inconsequential (the scientific view) or of divine origin (the religion view). In either case it was assumed that they cannot be objects of rational inquiry. Similar views still prevail regarding mystical experiences and mysticism in general. Modern opinion, whether friendlyor hostile, holds that the mystical falls squarely within the domain of the