--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "biosoundbill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Namaskaram Kala Devi, > > I'll use a non TM mantra as an example! > > Let's say the bija is `Shreem' for the basic TM technique. > > Let's say `Om Shreem Namaha' for an advanced technique. > > Finally let's say `Om Shreem Maha Lakshmiyei Swaha' for a more > advanced technique. > > From your experience, am I correct in saying that `Om Shreem Maha > Lakshmiyei Swaha' would be the most powerful of all 3 meditation > mantras?
Not necessarily, as mantras depend on the disposition of the student, most especially the students mind. There are some techniques utilizing merely a bija mantra which truly go beyond the mind (but there are specific techniques in addition to the mantra in order to do so). Now if, for example, the Lakshmi mantra IS appropriate for a certain student and they know the appropriate techniques to use that mantra fully, it could render full results. But merely giving out mantras for mental repetition, comparitively there could be little or no difference. However if paying wads of money made one think they had something more special or important, the change in attitude could affect the students experience of that mantra, as silly as that sounds, because the resolve and intent has changed. In addition to the mental use of mantra there are hosts of other techniques which can be applied in addition to or with the mantra. Often as the experience of subtlety of mantra refines, techniques will refine to take the mind deeper, beyond where the mantra *appears* to end and to allow the meditator to go much further, deeper and longer (sounds like porn! :-) ). Adhikara mantras, mantras which are chosen based on the student, are always favorable to mantras merely given by puja. With an indiscrimantly given mantra, there is always the potential for something to go wrong. Kala Devi
