> > It is my understanding that MMY advised against > > the use of AUM... > > > >Bhairitu: > There are Indian millionaires who use mantras with > AUM... > Hardly anybody on the planet meditates on 'AUM'. But, there must be millions of people that meditate on the TM bija mantras - students of Mahesh Yogi, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and the Deepak Chopra. There's what, one or two millionaires in India that meditate on AUM?
Most students of gurus in India meditate on the bija mantra given to them by their teacher when they get initiated. The nonsense syllable AUM is something you read about in yoga books or magazines. AUM is not esoteric at all! AUM is NOT given out by a real tantric guru. Tantric gurus always intitiate with bija mantras - AUM is for fakirs, not for adepts. Everyone knows that the historical Buddha, Shakya the Muni, did not teach the use of AUM - if Buddha believed that uttering nonsense syllables would do anything to relieve mankind from suffering, then I guess he would have included them somewhere in the 'Noble Eightfold Path', would he not?
