Among the many different forms, Simmons said he teaches mantra-based meditation
in which someone sits quietly and repeats a single word – in his case, “Rum” –
for a period of 20 minutes. He has one meditation session in the morning at his
Los Angeles home, then drives over to his ex-wife
Ram is a common shanti mantra given to the general public. The
journalist probably heard it wrong as Rum which is hilarious and might
might make someone drunk. According to some including Bhavagan Das in
his autobiography Maharishi used Ram in the first days of TM. The
reason TM uses beej
In Sanskrit, vowels save the short a-sound are pure. I guess another way to
express
that is they are non-reduced.
I'm quite certain that for native speakers of English the impurity of the
short
a-sound in Sanskrit is easier to hear than for those whose native languages
have only pure
vowel
Ram rhymes with Tom while Rum rhymes with bum. Also it is
highly improvable the writer knows ANY Sanskrit. :-D
On 02/26/2014 01:01 PM, cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote:
In Sanskrit, vowels save the short a-sound are pure. I guess another
way to express
that is they are non-reduced.
I'm quite
/14, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Russell Simmons on TM - Front page of
Yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 9:34 PM
Nah
In high school everyone was already chanting the shakti form of the vahni-bija
- rah rah shish koom bah or the really secret high school mantra - rama longa
ding dong. Must be why all the time they wanted to eat and have sex. It wasn't
the hormones after all.
Just the short uh (as in ə -
in raams.
On Wed, 2/26/14, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Russell Simmons on TM - Front page of
Yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 9:38 PM
On 2/26/2014 3:38 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
I think I'll meditate to bourbon tonight. Ora maybe tequila and if
that works I'll make up some sutras like tequila with an amrit
chaser and see can I walk through a wall.
We all do what we can for world peace. Go figure.
