--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > TurquoiseB wrote: > > >>>Or perhaps because chakras are grafted on after the vedic stuff he > >>> > >>> > >>DOES consider important? > >> > >> > >>>Maharishi mentions marmas, and not chakras. > >>> > >>> > >>In all fairness to MMY, I don't think he wanted to open a pandora's > >>box > >>with this more esoteric stuff, who knows, I may not be a meditator now > >>if he did. He wants to broden his appeal not lessen it, afterall.....I > >>don't hold it against him, although it would be reassuring if he did > >>explain it from our (TM) point of view. :-) > >> > >> > > > >Haven't any of you guys considered the obvious? > >He doesn't speak about chakras (and thousands > >of other spiritual subjects) because he doesn't > >know anything about them. > > > >If you want to know about such things, go to > >the spiritual traditions that have studied them > >for centuries. His obviously didn't. > > > No because chakras are pretty basic stuff in Indian philosophy and MMY > would have had to grow up in Topeka if he didn't know about them. > Besides Ingegerd already said he talked about them in the early days. > However in teaching meditation you usually don't deal with the chakras > unless someone has one blocked. >
And the concept of Chakra, at least within the texts I've already mentioned, doesn't go into details such as unblocking them anyway. Techniques dealing with Chakras as Chakras don't appear in Indian literature and tradition until 1200 years ago if that. 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/
