SSRS has been clear that bija mantras dissolve into pranava (om) at the finest level. He called it the merging point of the tri-veni. Tri-veni is the confluence zone of Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers. He explained it as the mythographic symbol for the merging of the three nadi-s - ida, pingala and sushumna at ajna chakra.
Some years ago I received mantra-diksha from him which included the pranava. Remembering the barking dogs of the tmo, I discussed this with a sankhya-yoga scholar who is a long time student of SSRS. He pointed out that MMY did not want the pranava practiced in a bare manner since it brought intense reversal of the pranas (nivritti) and severance from material and sensorial affections - all good for renunciates but an utter disaster for householders. He pointed out that front loading a dhyana bija-mantra with pranava was in perfect accord with the tradition and that SSRS was a mahapandita who gave it to those he thought could benefit from using it. To paraphrase forrest gump's guru - a mantra is as a mantra does. All this yada yada about meaning or its absence in mantras overlooks this simple fact. The meditation mantras of tm-sahaj are not used for their meaning but for their perceptual sound value. To contemplate mantras for their meaning is dhyana-bhaavana. Tantrika-s contemplate their mantras because their meditation-contemplation yoga is an amplified form of deity puja (antaryaga). --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, scienceofabundance <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: > > > > snip > > > > Especially if you don't know how to incant it properly. > > > > OffWorld > > Is it really bad if I can't incant properly? > > Science >
