--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Edg wrote: > > But it was a big fat lie and every teacher knew that > > the mantras were the names and attributes of Gods > > that the Holy Tradition ADORED, and today, we openly > > SELL PRAYERS TO THESE GODS and call them yagyas. > > > TM has nothing to do with Gods and a Holy Tradition and > nothing to do with yagyas and prayers. TM is a totally > secular practice; TM is not a religion. TM mantras have > no semantic meaning. > > Read more: > > Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental > From: Judy Stein > Date: Tues, Jun 17 2003 1:29 am > Subject: Re: Is TM a Religion > http://tinyurl.com/2un3hw > > Final note for now: to be able to say whether TM > is a religion, you have to know what TM *is*, what > its characteristics are. If you're unclear about its > characteristics, if you can't give a detailed, > accurate description of it, you won't be able to say > whether or not those characteristics add up to a > religion. Of course, you also have to know what > are the unique characteristics of a religion. >
I always considered TM a religious science. That pretty much solves the requirements of both camps.
