Doing the Puja individually is the best, that is my experience too. Twice in 25 years I have done the Puja by my self - and then gone to Hospitals giving the Mantra, one to a dying person and one for my Boss having stroke. As soon as my Boss was out of the Hospital, I initiated him properly with the Puja and everything. He was meditating to his dying day after that. Ingegerd > Interesting, Ingegerd. I once checked a person, who claimed to have > been initiated by Maharishi in the early years in Germany.He said > that he went to the lecture, and after the lecture, Maharsishi stood > near the door and whispered the mantra into the ear of > everyone.Despite my not inquiring about it, he suddenly told me his > mantra, which was Raam. I have friends who initiate for the movement > in India, and they did it with puja, but they did collective > initiations. I think that means doing puja together with about 10 > people, and then giving mantras individually. I think that's also > the way they did it in the Phillipines. But everybody I know agrees > that this doesn't work as well, as doing it individually. Once > Maharishi did a collective initiation in Nepal, I think end of 1974, > where he initiated 20.000 people at one stroke. He did a collective > puja on stage, and the mantra thing they did over earphones, with a > special tape-machine, that had several tapes running at the same > time, with different audio exits. But he never repeated it again. I > heard the follow up was difficult. It seems individualinitiation + > puja works best.
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