bob_brigante wrote:
> --- 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)
There are a lot of texts with the same bij aksharas as TM uses listed.
I remember after I had returned from TTC reading a book on Indian
traditions and finding pretty much the same list with the author saying
"these were mantras a man would recite before having sex with his wife." :)
