--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "nablus108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" > <shempmcgurk@> > > 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 > > > > > > > > Grad students studying ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder) > should > > > > now tune in to observe Judy Stein's next 40 posts in which she > > > > will demonstrate that Maharishi did NOT mean in that quote that > > > > TM mantras are the names of gods. > > > > > > > > And then she will call you a liar. > > > > > > Er, the usual definition of mantra isn't "name." > > > > Of course it isn't. The gods have perfectly good > > names of their own, and they aren't the same as the > > bija mantras TM uses. > > > > The bija mantras are semantically meaningless sounds > > that have been *associated with* gods in Hinduism. > > Bingo ! How old is Hinduism anyway - 1500 years old ? The TM mantras > could be 40000 years old or older.
Here's another quote from MMY on this subject: "The mantras I use in TM instruction were invented on December 8, 14,032 B.C." -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi So, Nablus, you're off by about 24,000 years! 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/
