Re: [FairfieldLife] The guru mantra of branding

2005-04-29 Thread Vaj
Divorced from the source. One of the things I learned after I left my TM daze was that when you receive a formal teaching, there is usually an explanation of where and who that teaching came from. Typically the teacher will tell you how he received it, how he came upon it, who taught it to him

Re: [FairfieldLife] The guru mantra of branding

2005-04-29 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/29/05 8:33 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll leave it to you to decide as to which one Mahesh's teaching represents. Because of lack of proper teaching, people still debate did Mahesh receive the mantras from Guru Dev? Is TM from Guru Dev? Where did he learn the sidhi method?

Re: [FairfieldLife] The guru mantra of branding

2005-04-29 Thread Vaj
On Apr 29, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Rick Archer wrote: Maharishi developed the sidhis through trial and error, reading the Yoga Sutras and experimenting with people, starting in Fiuggi. So you're saying it was book knowledge combined with trial and error, rather than any real knowledge from that

Re: [FairfieldLife] The guru mantra of branding

2005-04-29 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/29/05 10:16 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 29, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Rick Archer wrote: Maharishi developed the sidhis through trial and error, reading the Yoga Sutras and experimenting with people, starting in Fiuggi. So you're saying it was book knowledge combined with