Bhairitu wrote: > The first time I tried meditation which was some > three years before learning TM my kundalini rose > (it was like going up into the middle of the Sun). > In my case, I was born enlightened, so all I had to do was awaken to reality and then try to maintain that state in my daily life. So, I learned to relax and stop striving. I realized that in this life I'm only going to get as much enlightenment as I'm going to get. All I have to do now is lead a harmless life and try to do what is right - follow natural law and have compassion for the less unfortunate.
> This from a mantra in a book which morphed as I > practiced it. By the time I came to TM I had tried > other techniques and had read Ramana Maharishi > teachings extensively. > However, just because you experienced an instant of childish insight doesn't translate to making up an international movement to spiritually regenerate the entire world. For that you would have to have a simply, easily taught technique. > I did TM to find out what an institutionalized > program was like. Even prior to the kundalini > experience I had spiritual experiences as a child. > My guru says this is an indicator that I was on > the path in previous lifetimes. > Maybe so, this also happened to the historical Buddha. Your current sadhana probably involves numerous strings of non-sense syllables and numerous hand gestures and the concentration on a candle flame for hours on end. That's not something that the average person has time or the inclination to do. In fact, most people would probably think your insane if they saw you trying to suck your big toe. > I believe this as I have run into TM practitioners > who say even after 30 years they have yet to have > a > clear experience of transcending. > But it is difficult to understand why some individuals would attend a TTC for six months and then for years mix up and pass out the kool-aid when they themselves couldn't even transcend for a single moment. Maybe the students you taught were in a hypnotic trance-induction state. How do you know that you and they haven't been the victim of simple suggestability? You didn't mention any of the marks that would indicate that you experienced any bliss conciousness. What's up with that? It's alright, I guess, to imagine a snake up your ass, but what good is it in real life? You need to get some smarts, Bharat2, everyone meditates, but you failed to even define what meditation is. Meditation means to 'think things over' and based on that definition, everyone who can think, meditates. And you need to cut the bullshit - everyone transcends, all the time. Meditation is just what intelligent people do. TM simply provides a more ideal opportunity for the transcending. As a technique it is second to none, in my opinion, and I've studied under numerous teachers. TM sure surpasses in effectiveness the concentration on the tip of the nose taught by most yoga teachers! You can't seem to cite a single teacher or technique that provides a simple, easily learned technique for effortless transcending. That's my point.
