--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Even though the terms Transcendental Meditation & TM had not been > coined, in 'Thirty Years Around the World' it states catagorically > that before the yagna performed in October 1955, 'Throughout Kerala > Maharishi was instructing the people in Transcendental Meditation'. > In 'Beacon Light of the Himalayas' (an allusion to Guru Dev) Bal > Brhmachari Mahsh (as he signed himself some weeks later) tells the > audience:- > > 'When he devotes himself and meditates on the name and form (NAMA AND > RUPA) of the LORD, he begins to experience some ANANDAM and also the > Grace of the Lord in every walk of life. This experience of Peace and > Anandam is Sadhana. And Sadhana naturally increases his devotion to > God and makes him more and more attached to Him. Thus he develops > intensity of Raga for the ISHTAM. Gradually, this final Raga goes on > increasing and this increase of Raga and Love for the ISHTAM enables > the Grihastha to feel the presence of his 'ISHTAM' always with him, > in all his ways of life, in all his thought, speech and action.' > Well, that's clearer and doesn't have the ambiguity of the English of the first quote. NAMA and RUPA of the LORD. Pretty straight up.
JohnY > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" jstein@ wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mason" > <premanandpaul@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > In 'Meditation: easy system propounded by Maharishi Mahesh > Yogi' > > > > (c1959) there is to be found a series of questions which > includes > > the > > > > following: > > > > Q. How does meditation improve the fortune of a man? > > > > A. Our system of meditation involves the All Mighty Power. We > > take > > > > the 'MANTRA' of some God according to our faith and meditate on > > that. > > > > The power of the 'MANTRA' brings to us the Almighty > > > > > > > > > > > > > > All Mighty Power sounds like a rough translation of Ishvara (sp) > > from Patanjali. > > > > But note that he does *not* say the mantras are > > names of gods. > > > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
