--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Kirk" <kirk_bernha...@...> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sal Sunshine" <salsunsh...@...> > To: <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:16 AM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit > Concert to Push TM in Public Schools > >> > >> But the force of the TM Is Not A Religion Religion > >> is strong. Once you've become a member of that church, > >> it's very difficult to leave. Or so it seems... > > ------Well then you've hit the nail on the flat end. For me, I switched > first to Devi Bhakta after understanding the religious nature of my TM > Mantra, then to the same but from a Buddhist context which I purposely > sought out due to its similarities to my previous experiences, thus making a > switch, but not really switching anything. Three Card Monty - religious > style. > > I did not find the opposite to be true, which is to say that I did not have > nondevotional esteem for my practice. Which is to say that I understood the > fundamentally religious and Hindu nature of TM from the outset and I had > always dug on that. > > TM Mantras are based on ishtadevata and varnashrama. Thus early year kids > are given Kama bijas of Devi, then early middle year people are given > Knowledge bijas of Saraswati, then later middle years are given Dharma bijas > and lastly latter aged people are given moksha bijas of Mahakali. Does > anyone else think this sounds correct? >
I wonder why you're not expected/required to change your mantra as "early middle years" all too quickly gives way to "later middle years" and beyond?
