You mean the monsoon season? Today in California it was winter overnight, spring in the morning, summer in the afternoon and fall in the evening. :-D
I found the tape. I need to digitize it so it's easier to find sections and EQ it better. "Om Rama Krisna Hari" is for pitta but may also be tridoshic. On 02/28/2013 01:07 PM, Share Long wrote: > When all the snow starts melting, the kaphaness of kapha season is gonna hit > like a ton of bricks. I wonder if there's a sound that's good for all 3 > doshas just as there are a few foods that are good for all 3. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 2:58 PM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic Tradition? > > > > I need to find the Primordial Sound tape as I think it has the Gayatri > Mantra on it. In ayurveda Om is considered useful to calm vata though > Ram is favored. > > On 02/28/2013 06:30 AM, navashok wrote: >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, srijau@... wrote: >>> the non-use of Om by householders is very well documented to have been >>> emphasized by Swami Brahmananda Saraswati. >> No argument about this here. But the reason is the caste system and >> orthodoxy. According to extreme conservatives, any mantra of the Vedas could >> not be pronounced by Non-Brahmins, and women. You can read the passage about >> women and Om from the Beacon Light of the Himalaya, that Xeno uploaded to >> the files. Same is true for the Gayatri Mantra, it is not taught in the TM >> movement. Other spiritual Hindu based movements are less conservative and >> advocate it. >> >>> There is so many famous mantras that do not use Om at all ... " Shree Rama >>> Jaya Rama...etc the examples are very many. >> Yes, but they are not Vedic. If they would be Vedic, that is, if they would >> occur in the Rig Veda for example, they would be equally disallowed by the >> movement. The Shankaracharya order of the Saraswati branch, to which Guru >> Dev belonged to is the MOST conservative of all the orthodox orders. Only >> Brahmins could become Swamis, that is also the reason that Maharishi never >> became a Swami. And that is also the reason why his body was cremated >> instead of buried. The movement uppers and Rajas would have wanted the body >> to be burried, and have a real Samadhi, but the current Shankaracharya, even >> though supportive of the movement did not allow. >> >> The question for me is therefore: how much do you believe in the caste >> system and all the orthodox rules? If I don't believe in the caste system, I >> have no reason to reject OM for meditation. In fact it would simplify things >> a lot. Everybody knows it, knows it's proper pronunciation, and it is not >> directly connected to any gods, it is not sectarian or cultic. >> >> For example Shree Rama Jaya Raam Jaya Jaya Raam is a Vaishnavic Mantra and >> associated with Rama. There might be Shaivas who don't like it. There are >> Shaivas who don't visit Vaishanava temples. >> >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: >>>> >>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok wrote: >>>>> I think there is only one truly Vedic mantra and that is OM. >>>> Dear Nava, >>>> Real TM tru-believers strongly hold that Maharishi's revival of Knowledge >>>> has saved India from `Om". I have been lectured several times on this >>>> very point by extremely faithful TM people who seem quite convinced. >>>> You'll notice that none of the TM versions of mantras on the TM-X website >>>> notice `Om' as any part of a TM mantra. Though Shri Vidya and everyone >>>> else going back use "Om" to initiate or energized mantras. Is TM missing >>>> something? Maharishi uniquely seems a Vedic out-layer on this in the >>>> distribution of sages on mantras. >>>> I like `Om' myself to spin the root and tune the heart and then go from >>>> there. But that is different from TM and should not be confused even >>>> though chakras well light up upon proper awareness and practice of the >>>> TM-sidhis. But at that point it is independent of employing 'Om' or much >>>> of anything else. >>>> Best Regards from Fairfield, >>>> -Buck >>>> >>>> >>>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> navashok: >>>>>>> Where does the TM technique come from? >>>>>>> >>>>>> From India and the Vedas? LoL! >>>>>> >>>>>> According to Mircea Eliade, only the rudiments of classic >>>>>> Yoga are to be found in the Vedas, and while shamanism and >>>>>> other techniques of ecstasy are documented among other >>>>>> Indo-European people, "Yoga is to be found only in India >>>>>> and in cultures influenced by Indian spirituality" (102). >>>>> I think there is only one truly Vedic mantra and that is OM. What >>>>> Maharishi teaches as the Vedic tradition is actually the Tantric >>>>> tradition appropriated by Brahmanism, through the teaching of Shri >>>>> Vidhya. With Vedic literature, he means the Agamas. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Work cited: >>>>>> >>>>>> 'Yoga : Immortality and Freedom' >>>>>> by Mircea Eliade >>>>>> Princeton University Press, 1970 >>>>>> >>>>>> Read more: >>>>>> >>>>>> Subject: A decomposition of practice ertswhile abusers lore >>>>>> Author: Willytex >>>>>> Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental >>>>>> Date: February 6, 2005 >>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/ykqy7zh >>>>>> >>>>>> Other titles of interst: >>>>>> >>>>>> 'Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy' >>>>>> by Mircea Eliade >>>>>> Princeton University Press; 2004 >>>>>> >>>>>> 'The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, >>>>>> Philosophy and Practice' >>>>>> by Georg Feuerstein and Ken Wilbur >>>>>> Hohm Press, 2001 >>>>>> >> > >
