Yes, as I said, according to Maharishi, OM is for recluses. Share wrote:
> What I've heard is that om or aum causes one to be more detached from life > and thus is not > suitable for householders. Emptybill, thanks for distinction about om alone > vs om in a > phrase which I often encounter in bhajans and kirtan. Judy, I personally > would not want to > mess with combining om with my mantra because it's not just the sounds that > are having a > specific and beneficial effect on the physiology, it's also the sequence in > which they occur > which is doing so. Thanks, Share, but you've taken my question out of context. Never mind. I wrote: > > So what would the problem be if "OM" wasn't included in a maha-mantra but > > rather along with, say, a bija mantra like what TM uses? Did Sri Sri give > > out > > bija mantras, or just the maha-mantras? emptybill wrote: > SSRS, a vedic pandit, has given out OM as part of traditional > maha-mantras. After receiving one from him, I asked the OM > question to a sankhya-yoga scholar, a former TMer and student of SSRS. He > said "No possible problem if > included within a traditional maha-mantra ... like om namo bhagavate > vasudevaya." ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote: He said OM was a mantra for recluses, I believe. It's in Beacon Light of the Himalayas.
