--- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Premanand Paul Mason" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the Guru Dev webpage there is a 'new' satsang - on the > > topic of the > > japa [silent repetition] of the sound AUM. > > The link is http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/gurudev.htm > > and the satsang is just past the middle of the page. > > From that link: > > **** begin quote **** > > Mantras [sometimes] contain a mixture [of sounds including] Aum that > are given for auspicious purposes. Another thing is this that women > are prohibited from practising japa with a aumkara-yukta mantra (a > mantra conjoined with Aum). Wherever at the beginning there is the > purushha [male] mantra 'aum' then instead women should apply the > sound 'shree'. > > Bhagavan Shankara [Lord Shiva] giving instruction to Parvati on japa > explained that for women aumkara-sahita mantra ka japa [aum connected > mantra] can be like poison and for happiness they should only do japa > without aumkara. Due consideration should be given that Shankarji > gave this information to his own wife. If aumkara is beneficial to > do, why would he instruct his own wife against the practise? > > **** end quote **** > > That's the first I've ever heard of this, and my Karunamayi > recordings (both meditation and sankirtana versions) do not adhere to > this rule. Is this "no AUM for chicks" rule commonly known? > > Alex
One lady at a TTC in Rishikesh stood up to proclaim a poem to Maharishi and the audiance starting the poem with "auuummm". Maharishi said; "stop, stop, do you not want to be married ?" The point is; if aum is harmeful for the expansion of happiness for ladies, the same would apply for men. 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/
