A-U-M is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end of all creation. MMY once described AUM (paraphrased) like hearing a City from a distance, you can hear the drone of the City, only when you get up close can you distinguish the individual sounds. These individual sounds are the sounds of creation and the Ved, these individual sound vibrations ARE the Vedic Gods.
The Divine Mother is the source/essence/substance of them all; all is AUM, and AUM is all. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: SSRS teaches techniques that are very similar to the TM practice of MMY. It's a matter of positioning and placement, Sudarsha Kriya is a hatha yoga asana and involves rhythmic breathing techniques in Vajrasana and Sukhasana. It's not complicated. The similarity to Buddhist Yoga is obvious. It has already been established that SK and TM are just common Indian meditation exercises designed to relieve stress, similar to Buddhist meditation practices such as Kum Nye and Vippasana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kum_Nye http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kum_Nye However, it is doubtful that SSRS was ever initiated into any esoteric tantric school, so he wouldn't be knowing any secret bija mantras that he could issue with any authority. Everyone knows you have to agree to a non-disclosure agreement in order to learn from an authentic tantric guru. Go figure. But, for the average pundit, espousing on OM seems an easy thing to pontificate about. After all, it worked for Lobsang Rampa and the Zen Master Rama. LoL! On 10/24/2013 8:06 AM, emptybill@... mailto: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 mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> mailto:authfriend@... wrote: He said OM was a mantra for recluses, I believe. It's in Beacon Light of the Himalayas. Buck wrote: So[m], what was Maharishi's particular teaching on "Om"? His was counter to everything "Om", wasn't it. He did not use "Om" in any of the mantras he gave. Succinctly, what was that? What is unique about his Vedic studies around "Om"? I got a dressing down recently about how Maharishi saved India around the understanding of "Om". What did he say that "Om" "aum" was so bad that puts him opposed to "Om"? While at the same time Brahmananda Saraswati [Guru Dev] it seems was very in favor of "Om" spiritually. See Guru Dev's discourses. Who do you believe? What is your experience with "Om"? I find it the vibration of the giant electro-magnet of nature turning over in the center of the Earth and unified sound of all of Nature and great to attune to as such to spin and line up the chakras of the subtle system . It seems the energetic pre-condition that all the nervous systems on earth have evolved with. It runs deep as a vibration (when people sit up) in the Dome as a vortex. Maharishi seems to have put the wammy of fear in to "Om" for the TM spiritual community. Does that explain something about the TM community? What is your experience with it and what was really said about it? Just wondering, -Buck ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <cardemaister@...> mailto:cardemaister@... wrote: (Not to be taken all too seriously...) Just as 'om' may be "embedded" in the word 'soma', so in the tanakh (Hebrew Bible =~ Old Testament) it may be embedded in the word 'yom' (day) that appears several times in the first verses of bereshit (Genesis)...
