--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sparaig wrote: [...] > > MMY claims, and such is my experience, that there is no limit to how > > refined a > > mantra can get. For that matter, while perhaps TM mantras facilitate the > > refinement process due to some innate nature, I believe that ANY mental > > device, not just a sound, can be used to refine perception to an arbitrarily > > deep level. > > > If that were true we'd really see a wide range of mantras in the > shastras, especially with the bijas. There is a difference between > "believing" something and actually studying the science with masters. > They will tell you the wrong sound can make you crazy. >
Ah, so ONLY the shastra mantras are good, and mantras found in some tradition that don't happen to resemble the shastra mantras are not merely "not as good," but probably bad, simply because they're not part of the tradition you believe in? Sounds like a True Blue TM teacher who has adopted another belief system to be true blue about. Lawson
