Don't feed the troll. Don't take mantra knowledge from a troll. Enough said.
You would have to be both deaf and blind to not know bij mantras growing up in India. :) biosoundbill wrote: > Richard, > > Most of the TM mantras are listed in the Varada Tantra. > > I believe MMY played around with them a little to dilute their > power, like making Kriing into ki-ring, Shriing into shir-ing, > Hriing into Hi-ring, shyam into she-am, etc > He really went to town on Saraswati aing,ainga,aim,and aima > (Pronounced i-ing, i-ing-ah, i-im, and i-eem-ah respectively) – was > he short on mantras, or what? > > Again as I said before, Southern pronunciation is slightly > different, they pronounce the `ii' in a bija as the `ee' in the word > feet etc,they also tend to use only the anusvara `M' ending,where > the lips are closed pushing the sound up the nasal passages. It > sounds more like the `mb' ending in the word Numb! > > In the North the `ii' is pronounced more like the `i' in the words > ring, bring, fling, etc > Some Northerners use the anusvara `M' ending, but more use the > allegedly more powerful `ng' ending known as anunAsika,-personally I > think the anusvara `M' ending is more powerful and grounding in the > long term. > > The late Harish Johari tended to pronounce the bijas with `ng' > endings combined with the `ee' sound as against the `i' sound giving > shreeng, hreeng, kreeng, etc > > Bottom line no matter what way the bijas are pronounced they are all > Tantric. > > Namaste, > > Billy > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Bhairitu wrote: >> >>> The short bij mantra bobs up and down. >>> >>> >> There seems to be some confusion here. Marshy doesn't >> give out 'bija' mantras, only the names of the devatas, >> the deified heroes of the Hindu tradition, along with >> various words and phrases from Sanskrit. Marshy isn't >> a tantric yogi in the Nath tradition, therefore he >> would not be knowing any actual bija mantras. The tantric >> bija mantras are enumerated in the Buddhist Tantras. >> There are no bija mantras in the Rig Veda, in the >> Upahishads, or in the Puranas. There are no canonical >> collections of bija mantras in Hinduism. The Buddhist >> bija mantras all originated with the Nath Siddhas when >> India was a Buddhist country. >> >> > > > > 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
