Denise Evans: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YEq3St7CGs&feature=related > > Beautiful... > Yes, I like it, but apparently this phrase is nothing more than a pious attempt to formulate a prayer to the Goddess Laksmi, and is not Buddhist at all, not to mention non-ideational.
So, is it a phoneme or a quasi-phoneme? The Pranava, cited by Sage Patanjali in Yoga Sutras, is a phoneme or a quasi-phoneme which is first mentioned in Mandukya Upanishad 1.1, and was commented on by Gaudapadacharya, the author of Mandukhya Karika, and the root Guru of the Adi Shankaracharya, the author of Mandukhya Bhasya. Read more: Subject: A non-ideational, mnemonic device for transcending Author: Willytex Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental, alt.meditation, alt.yoga, alt.meditation.shabda, alt.meditation.qigong Date: August 4, 2004 http://tinyurl.com/3uqlsxy Titles of interest: 'Prisoners of Shangri La' by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. See the chapter concerning an explanation and history of the sacred Tibetan utterance: 'OM Mani Padme Hum.'
