--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Many thanks for all your comments, thoughts, and advice. If I'm not replying > to every individual email, it is to avoid cluttering up your list! But I > have read and considered all of them. > > The concept/fact of the TM mantras being older than the Hindu religion, and > so also older than the gods named after them, which might then be seen as > personalisations of a pre-existing sound, makes a good deal of sense to me. > In which case, as someone pointed out, using a mantra in TM is not actually > an act of prayer or worship at all. (Though, as an aside to OffWorld, I > think you can pray to something you do not exist in - how many kids spout > the Lord's Prayer every day at school without a shred of thought or > belief?!
Then it is not a prayer, but a bunch of meaningless sounds...the difference is, they have no strong mantric effect and/or are practiced in the wrong way. There is no such thing as prayer to the Enlightened Atheist. OffWorld
