biosoundbill wrote: > After all is said and done, I can't complain about > the way I was taught to meditate in TM, or even about > the mantra I got, meaningless or otherwise. > But I didn't say that your mantra was "meaningless". According to several informants here, you got the nick name of a Hindu demi-God to repeat in your meditation. The two Barry's seem to agree with this and so does Vaj the Nath. Mr. Manning even taught this when he was a TM teacher. But apparently Judy doesn't agree with this.
> It works for me, and even though the organization that > propagates TM has become ultra commercial, the technique > still holds good. > > So I won't distrust the method or the mantra I got. > It came at the right time in my life, saved my life, > and continues to work in my life. What more can I say, > except I don't want an advanced technique, the basic one > is working fine! > You don't get any more mantras in the advanced technique, according to Judy. You get only one mantra in TM - the other add-on phrases are just plain Sanskrit words like, Sri, Namah, etc. The question is, where do the TM bija mantras come from? >From Swami Brahmanand Saraswati? From a book? Did the Marshy just make up some non-sense gibberish and then call them bijas? If he got them from his teacher, the question becomes, where did the Marshy's teacher get the bija mantras? Was Brahmmanand a tantric? What, exactly, is a bija mantra anyway? Do bija mantras always have to be recieved in one-on-one initiation from a genuine tantric guru? Are bija mantras effective if you find them in a book? Why all the secrecy about bija mantras?
