Vaj wrote: > On Dec 24, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Bhairitu wrote: > > >> Vaj wrote: >> >>> On Dec 24, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Premanand wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Some of the independent teachers are listed here:- >>>> http://tm-independent.de/TM_independent/itm-lehrer.html >>>> >>>> >>> Put your waders on. >>> >>> Interesting to see these independent teachers are continuing the Holy >>> Tradition of lies. They are claiming that TM is derived from Sri Vidya and >>> Advaita Vedanta--both of course are, <sigh>, untrue. Apparently this Theo >>> dude--who has sent me several emails offlist--also has put out some bogus >>> (and hilarious) TM research. >>> >>> >> Do you think MMY just made it up or found it elsewhere? It sort of >> resembles something that might be from Nadi astrology. What I'm >> thinking is might have mentioned his predicament to some yogi or >> astrologer and they suggested the solution. You and I know that India >> as a lot of these procedures almost from village to village. In fact I >> think Parashara was actually cataloging the different techniques not >> intending that one would use all of them. >> > > > I'm surprised you'd ask that. They're very common mantras. Unless you mean > the permutations. They're just bijoddhara mantras--extracted bijas--a common > way to permutate mantras, based on simple rules. > > Just before TM was introduced in India, a compendium of Mantra Shastra in > encyclopedia form was published in Hindi, Sanskrit and Bengali. It connected > mantra-yoga with the then known laws of physics. The series was such the > rage, that it was condensed into a one volume version (from the original six > volumes) and even translated into English. TM in it's current form came out > right after this popular book, the Japasutram, was published. Many of the > English buzzwords associated with TM can be found in the English version.
Thanks, but the reason I asked as I've never seen such rules in any text (with regard to the system). We may be talking about two different things.
