--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> , "emptybill" <emptyb...@...> wrote: > > 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).>>
Nice explanation. However, obviously for millioms to TM'rs this has not been a disaster for householders. OffWorld
