On Jan 12, 2009, at 2:38 PM, I am the eternal wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Vaj <vajradh...@earthlink.net> wrote:
They've already talked about this. It's mentioned in the Unified
Field chart for Ayurveda, which contains an alleged formula for the
5 tanmatras. Not that anyone but they believe in it. Kinda silly
really.
My take on his whole "Rig Ved" spiel was it was what he purloined
from the father-son Vedic chanting duo he used to hang with, along
with his intellectual interests garnered from hanging around actual
physicists. As it turns out, the whole AGNI thing is not his. There
are huge compendia of analyses on Rig Vedic words, phrases and
their meaning. These are still just barely being preserved by
traditional pundit families. Much of it is committed to writing but
none of it, as far as I am aware, has been translated into English
yet.
If someone wanted to be really enterprising and helpful, they could
start or fund a translation project to preserve these texts.
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Maharishi was the Great Promoter. Had few if any original thoughts
during his whole life. He didn't cognize Ayurveda, Vastu or any of
the other Vedic disciplines. He just pulled together people to
speel on what they were an expert on, then of course put his SCI
spin on it all. Sometimes the spin doesn't take, as it didn't take
with Herbert Benson. Benson looked at what he saw in TMers and
decided that a mantra of "one" would do just as well.
What I find most fascinating is that Maharishi's prize, Chopra, was
pretty much a mirror of Maharishi. Chopra hasn't had an original
thought in his life. I used to marvel during his weekend seminars
how well he could peace together everybody else's thoughts and
conclusions. Maharishi was and Chopra is the big reformatters.
Maharishi has us listen to the Rig Veda to enliven subatomic
particles? Yeah, sure. Round about the Taste of Utopia I would
have not believed that but out of shear exhaustion would have said,
"yeah, well, OK". But that was then, this is now.
But the sad thing is God Almighty / El Shaddai such shenanigans
detract and diminish the actual commentaries on Rig veda which do
exist. Once you make something SO silly, how do you expect anyone to
take it seriously? Not everything was designed to be sold or used as
a marketing mythos.
