--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: > > > On Feb 20, 2011, at 9:54 AM, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Feb 20, 2011, at 8:13 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote: > >> > >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: > >>> > >>> When I learned mantra-yoga from others after TM, they taught that > >>> ajapa-japa: effortless constant "non-repetition" mantra repetition 24/7 > >>> was the goal of mantra yoga. Really a fine, constant stream of > >>> mantra-as-awareness where it is never lost, never forgotten. > >>> > >>> In other words; no transcendence. > >>> Thought so. > >> > >> > >> Actually full transcendence, not stuck in a laya (TM) and merely > >> transcending part of the mind. TM would be kind of an entry level practice > >> prior to mastery of ajapa-japa. It's simply a level of practice not taught > >> in the TM Org. > >> > > Maharishi quite clearly expressed this himself, when he said that the > > normal transcending in TM is hazy, not the real and final transcending. > > He actually said that? Can you recall a source?
It's all on video tape seen at an international course. The topic was the transition to CC, with a final BIG transcendence. He said that it wouldn't sound well if we call it hazy transcendental meditation. I have it only from memory, but these tapes weren't so exotic, probably quite a few people must have seen it. Maybe it was the 'spiritual development' course, but I'm not sure anymore. > > > > Quite frankly I suspect that this is the reason why the movement is > > discontinued - at least no expansion is envisioned. Because with the > > present material he had, the people with the concepts he created, could not > > go much further. > > I've often felt the same thing. I thought there could be great promise in > marrying "Maharishi Vedic Science", which is a college level expansion, with > practices of yoga and Vedanta. > > Perhaps it is SSRS and AoL that is actually expanding it for this lineage? > > > > > It's like this example in the Divine Plan, where the reconstruction team > > finshes only one quarter of the street, and continues next time with > > another section. He didn't say this for nothing. > > Very interesting. >