Exactly Rick. Which is not what some mantra works suggest. That is what I think is interesting. If these mantras are the 'sonic representations' of the deity, one would think they should be spoken, or thought inside, clearly and correctly. If that is so, then what are we to make of our TM way of not thinking it but faintly? What did MMY think of these mantras? Are they symbolic, or merely tools to allow us to go inside? Cheers Bill
From: Rick Archer <r...@searchsummit.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 10:32 AM Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: How to pronounce the mantras From:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of William Parkinson Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 11:48 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How to pronounce the mantras Hi Rob. What I found interesting in the pronunciation was simply this: books on mantra meditation that I have state very emphatically that the mantra must be pronounced absolutely clearly and correctly. I assume because they believe that the mantra is some sort of sonic representation, if not sonic manifestation, of the deity. Yet in TM we are told the mantra might will change as we use it. And the mantra should ideally be a faint thought--not something clear and strong in our minds.This was part of my interest in this varient ways of saying the mantras. The TM instructions explicit advise NOT trying to think or pronounce the mantra clearly: “Mental repetition is not a clear pronunciation; just a faint idea.”
