--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 9, 2008, at 2:51 AM, cardemaister wrote: > > > Since one might say, that MMY was an extension of SBS in time, and > > thus a foremost representative of the Holy Tradition of Vedic > > Masters, > > He might be that in your imagination and that of others, but in fact > he was nothing of the sort. It was actually he who added the "HH" (His > Holiness) to his own name. > > Besides, as has been pointed out to you many times, TM is a tantric > practice. > > we might use Alistair Shearer's translation here. (Höh?!) > > We don't have it in English, but on the basis of a Finnish > > TM-teacher's, Mr. Heikki Uusitupa's Finnish translation in > > "Suomen TM-lehti": > > > > http://tinyurl.com/5f5qks > > > > Shearer translates 'abhyaasa' in the above suutra to 'repetition' > > rather than, say, 'practice'. > > Shearer's translation has many defects, this is just one example. His > translation is largely an apologia for TM and the TMSP. >
May I ask what is your favorite translation of viraama-pratyaya-abhyaasa-puurvaH saMskaara-sheSo 'nyaH?