Vaj wrote, more or less: > > bhuta-shuddhi (Purification of the five elements > in the body/bodies) should always precede mantra.
Peter Sutphen, your originating post said kriya breathing is the greatest, but would you agree it should precede instruction in meditation? Always? My 'ru chums who endorsed the Art of Living course always said it was the best precursor to TM ever. I blew them off because I never did even the TM pranayam, so I figured I'd never do something more elaborate. Of course, if I did something more elaborate, perhaps I'd get something out of it. Seems to me this is another case where the best approach would be for a qualified person to prescribe what's best for the student. For example, in my ideal world, a personal development program would determine where a person needed the most help, whether it be bodily purification, development of inner silence, chi flow or whatever. The diagnosis could be done through pulse diagnosis, jyotish, dowsing, intuition or some other means. What I'm describing may be what Ed Tarabilda promoted. I know Mahesh Subrahmanyam provides a jyotish service to these ends. But I'm thinking of a universal self- development supermarket, where all the diagnoses and prescriptions are available centrally. As it is now, someone who wanted to follow this approach would have to find their own sources and a la carte it, as it were. Just a ramble. But my question for Dr. Pete is sincere. - Patrick Gillam To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
