--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > bob_brigante wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > > >> Perhaps you should go on a pilgrimage to southern India and locate > >> > > the > > > >> text that TM was supposedly derived from? > >> > >> > > > > > > ********* > > > > No big secret here -- I have the read the Srimad Devi Bhagavatam (this > > is not the more well-known Srimad Bhagavatam), and the TM > > (bija, "seed") mantras are listed in the book, along with a warning > > that these powerful mantras need to be imparted by a teacher, or the > > results will not be good: http://tinyurl.com/e4q48
> Which book and chapter? > http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/db/index.htm > ********** It's been more than 30 years since I read the MIU library copy of the Srimad Devi Bhagavatam -- I cannot cite, at present, ch and verse, but my recollection is quite clear that I saw the TM mantras listed along with a warning not to self-instruct (or the results would not be good). I'll probably re-read the SDB, and when I do, I'll post to the list, but this is 18,000 verses, so it probably will not be any time soon. Thanks for posting this link, what a great resource. It looks like most of the great Vedic lit is or is going to be online, which beats the heck out of lugging around a library of books, not to mention the expense -- my copy of the Shiva Purana is 5 vols, $25/per vol. The only reference to a bija mantra used in TM that I have noted so far is in book 3, ch 9, v 42ff: http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/db/bk03ch09.htm "Aim" is the seed mantra of Sarasvatî, the Goddess of learning." (different pronunciation in TM instruction, of course)
