On Apr 13, 2005, at 6:51 PM, Bob Brigante wrote:

> The ancient text Srimad Devi Bhagavatam (this is not the more well-
> known/popular Srimad Bhagavatam) lists the TM mantras, but then
> cautions that one should not start this powerful meditation casually,
> but get a qualified teacher, or else the "results will not be good."
>
> http://www.21stbooks.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?
>
> [I read this a long time ago, and can no longer list in which chapter
> the TM mantras (called bija, "seed," mantras in Sanskrit) are listed,
> but they're there, along with the caveat I mention above --
> ultimately the TM mantras are derived from the Rig Veda -- FWIW, the
> translation I read in 1975 was not done by somebody associated with
> the TM movement]
>

The Srimad Devi Bhagavatam is a Shakta purana. It is tantric. Some 
puranas are pre-Vedic.



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