sparaig wrote: >--- 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. > > > Shaktipat is used to unblock them.
>Techniques dealing with Chakras as Chakras don't appear in Indian literature >and tradition >until 1200 years ago if that. > How about in the oral traditions? :) 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/
