We may now ask the question—Is "Omanipadmehum" prayer, super= stition, custom, habit or religion?
re are six syllables in this Sans-cit phrase and lamas tell is a prayer for the six beings into which the Tibetans divide the human race. These six human beings include man, idols, hosts, walking, crawling, creeping: and flying things. If this is true and some maintain is, then the woolly Tibetan nomad is certainly not miss in praying for the inhabitants who dwell on the roof of the world.
The Tibetans contribution therefore to the progress of the human race is his constant, persistent, devoted prayer. To the Tibetan the difficulty of praying while he made love, oF praying while he did business, or aving while he enjoyed himself child's play to encompassing the difficulty of praying while he slept. Here was a gigantic problem'and one he had seriously to face if he desired to maintain ambition and keep praying all time. How to pray and work nothing; how to pray and sie was something, and this is how the woolly nomad got past this serious difficulty.
ihe sternal mating, enows of Tibet ie about the nearest wwe know to perpetual motion and the Tibetan was.not slow in grasping this fact, He simply harnessed the mountain streams to. turn hhis huge cumbersome prayer wheels and thus while he slept he prayed and "Omanipadmebam" has breath-
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