--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "biosoundbill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anybody know what is the purpose of the TM puja? > > Is it to enliven the mantra,or is it to help the teacher to connect > with Guru Dev,or to go to the transcendent in order to fuse the >mantra > with shakti,before passing it on to the initiate? any thoughts,or > opinions? > Namaste, > Billy
Personally Billy, I believe you/or I, don't have a personal Guru, and even if we did, he likely wouldn't be much use to you or me for that matter, you can't transmit a 1000 watts into a 12 watt bulb, get my drift? MMY is merely acting as a human instructor in order to raise your vibrations high enough to be able to merit a Sat-Guru (True God Realized Guru) that can transmit some of his God Consciousness to you and connect you directly to Brahman. I think if we take the hocus-pocus out of the mantra/Initiation we are better off and just take MMY's word that the mantras are the personal names of Gods/deities and have an auspicious effect, the rest is merely contained in Patanjali's eight limbs of yoga and Samyama in particular; Dharan (effortless 'concentration'), Dhyan spontaneous contemplation of the Divine, and Samadhi immersion into the one and only.
