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Two Words

—Publisher's Note

Our society has been bathing for ages in the holy, continuously flowing streams of Indian culture. Behind this bath are various noble aspects of the society's sentiments, the major ones being:

1. Self-welfare, and 2. Public welfare.

To fulfill both these types of welfare, ancient sages, thinkers, and scholars have shown many paths supported by their own experiences. They obtained these paths through divine grace, hard penance, and the traditions of their ancestors.

It is the supreme duty of good sons to "protect the property received from their ancestors, increase it progressively, and distribute it among their descendants without any deceit." Fulfilling this duty, our ancient teachers tested what they saw, heard, and found on the touchstone of their own experience and, having verified it as "pure gold," passed it on to subsequent generations.

This process has been going on for thousands of years. In times of natural and worldly disasters, they protected this heritage with their lives, spent their lives learning the unknown, made the known understandable and easy for future generations, and out of compassion, delivered it to us. For the faithful society, the Panchamrita five-fold nectar of Mantra, Yantra, Tantra, Svara sound/breath, and Yoga has been received.