--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > curtisdeltablues wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > >> Hugo wrote: > >> > >>> Interesting article here: > >>> > >>> http://mysterytopia.com/2008/07/meditate-on-it.html > >>> > >>> It doesn't really explain how mantras came to be > >>> so powerful, if indeed they are actually different > >>> from any other randomly chosen sound. > >>> > >>> > >> Think resonance. It is the resonant qualities of the sound which > >> determine the effect and the basis for Nada Yoga (the science of > >> sound). Remember the TM lecture example of scratching your > >> > > fingernails > on the blackboard as an example of a sound that wouldn't > > probably make > very good mantra. :) > > > > Proof by analogy is just lame. Using an extreme example proves > > nothing. There is no detectable difference between sounds like the > > mantra sounds and any other ordinary word. This is just an claim > > supported by religious assertion IMO. > > > Nonsense. Go read up on nada yoga rather than make up your own folk > philosophy. And apparently you would think that there is no difference > between dissonance and consonance in music by your "folk philosophy." > :D :D :D >
But that is the problem with both your examples,they are extreme. You are claiming that there is a huge difference between two notes in consonance but using the example of dissonance which does not apply to your claim. Using Raam or Govinda as a mantra does not have the intrinsic differences you are claiming. It is not like a soothing sound and finger nails on a blackboard, that is a bad example. I'm sure there are all sorts of Nada Yoga books that makes such unsupported claims, that doesn't help either. This is a religious belief that I do not share. My only objection is that you and Maharishi pretend it has a scientific or even common sense basis,which it does not. It is an assertion on the level with "Believing in Jesus as your savior gives you eternal life."
