Paul Mason wrote: > Questioner - Maharishi, how may a person find, you know, which of the, > of the, the five materials [elements?] are predominant in them? > > Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - They, they have their method of, uh, oh, from > the tendencies they know, from the, from the cut of the face they > know. From the tendency. From the tendency. > Tendencies or what these days we might call a rough "personality profile" is the way that many gurus who give mantras based on different deities use.
Ayurveda is a good method for finding which elements predominate as it deals with them directly and there are mantras used there to bring balance. > Q - Do you take that into consideration when you give the person a mantra? > > M M Y - I don't go into all these vibrations, botherations. I ask him > "Which god you like?" He says "Shiva" - Okay, Shiva! [Maharishi > laughs, very loudly] Where is the time to go into complications and > all that? Ask him "What he like?" and that is it. [more laughter, the > laughter now sounding strained] And somebody comes, "Oh my, I don't > have any liking for anybody", then I trace behind, And then, "When you > were young?" and "Which temple you were going more?" and "What your > father was worshipping?" and then he comes round. [Maharishi resumes > the laughter] > Very traditional Indian methods which supersedes the selection via personality. However not very workable in the west though a few gurus might give mantras based on western religious icons. > Q - How would you apply this to the westerners? > > M M Y - Oh here we don't go into these minute details. [more strained > laughter] We get the mantra direct and that does all good for him. > [yet more laughter] In to.. not into so much details. > Circa 1959 he was probably still using the simple traditional technique of giving a shanti mantra to the public which people allege he first used. Some of us think he should have stuck with that. > To listen to this use the following link: > http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/sources/mp3s/Maharishi1959USA.mp3 > > I'll listen to this later for further comment.
