Right. I was once given the mantra "OM Iswara thahara tis," and it works beautifully for me as a householder. (I find it really hits home if you sound it out in your heart a number of times quickly.)
(Alex, if you count each of my punning posts as two, I seriously will only be able to post 25 a week! I ask you homey, where is the heart in THAT?) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" <emptybill@...> wrote: > > > MMY advised against using "om" alone as a single mantra. > > > > A former MIU Sankkya-Yoga scholar pointed out to me that it was safe to > use if combined as part of a larger mantra string of phonemes. > > > > When I received a meditation mantra from SSRS it included "om" > as part of the phoneme set. > > > > BTW, it works just fine. > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > On 07/31/2011 08:15 PM, Robert wrote: > > > > From what I heard, M told the Mother Divine course, that Om (Aum) > was not to be used as a mantra, as it's use would cause you to lose > everything you had, to lose your wealth... > > > So, in any reading of the Vedic Literature which Mother Divine used, > that contained the sound Om (Aum) would be avoided, or taken out of the > reading... > > > Just what I heard... > > > > Plenty of Indian millionaires using Omkara. Plenty of broke TMers > using > > mantras without Omkara. Go Figure. > > >