--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Swami Vishnu Devananda says: > > Being Duly Sworn on this 30 day of June, 1986 I Swami Vishnu Devananda > state the following: > > 1. > > I am a Swami of the Saraswati order in the Shankaracharaya line, > and am fully knowledgable and expert in the theories and practical > techniques associated with teaching meditation. I have taught > meditation internationally for the past 30 years in North and South > America, the Carribean, Europe, The Mediterranean, Australia, India, > Southeast Asia, etc. and maintain 30 teaching centers, and affiliated > groups under the name Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers. > 2. > > I hereby state and fully affirm that any Bija mantras or alleged > Bija mantras used by the defendants various organizations have been in > public domain for centuries. They are commonly known in India and > parts of the west. They can be located in books which I and other > authors have published and can be found in almost any free library. > They are not the trade secrets of any particular organization. Many of > the Bija Mantras are listed in my book, Meditation and Mantras. My > Guru, H.H. Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh, listed these mantras in his > work, "Japa Yoga" in the section on Bija Mantras. (see attached >copy) attached ?
Vaj, look at the link below from tracenet.org; from your point of view is the description there is authentic in term of Bija Mantras: http://www.trancenet.org/secrets/mantras.shtml <snip> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/