Judy wrote: > What does the Sanskrit phrase "Alaya Vigyan" mean? > The 'Alaya Vijnana' means the 'store-house consciousness', proposed by the 'consciousness-only' school of Vajrayana Buddhism, founded by Asanga and Vasubandhu.
This school had a profound effect on the thinking of Gaudapadacharya, the founder of the Advaita Vedanta school. Maharishi has based his TM technique on the principle that 'Pure Consciousness' is the Absolute Being, the Ultimate Reality. This doctrine is closely associated with the 'Trika' system of Kashmere - it is a fact that the Maharishi was very close to the late Swami Laksmanjoo, the last guru of the Kashmere tantrism. "The Alaya-vijnana is a receptacle and container of the so-called 'seeds' (bija), or elementary units of past experiences." Read more: /FairfieldLife/message/213975
