--- In [email protected], "Ingegerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend of mine was very disappointed after receiving Advanced > Techniques within the TMO. He got the technique from a lady from > India. No Puja - only whispering the Mantra to him. > It seems that it has been different guidelines about the Puja at > different times. My TM-Teacher from early in the 60ths - told me that > if some people did not like the idea of the Puja. The teacher could > do it privately, and only give the Mantra to the student without > doing the Puja with the student. She had learned that from MMY. > Ingegerd Interesting, Ingegerd. I once checked a person, who claimed to have been initiated by Maharishi in the early years in Germany.He said that he went to the lecture, and after the lecture, Maharsishi stood near the door and whispered the mantra into the ear of everyone.Despite my not inquiring about it, he suddenly told me his mantra, which was Raam. I have friends who initiate for the movement in India, and they did it with puja, but they did collective initiations. I think that means doing puja together with about 10 people, and then giving mantras individually. I think that's also the way they did it in the Phillipines. But everybody I know agrees that this doesn't work as well, as doing it individually. Once Maharishi did a collective initiation in Nepal, I think end of 1974, where he initiated 20.000 people at one stroke. He did a collective puja on stage, and the mantra thing they did over earphones, with a special tape-machine, that had several tapes running at the same time, with different audio exits. But he never repeated it again. I heard the follow up was difficult. It seems individualinitiation + puja works best.
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