In what tradition do you belong? Ingegerd --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exactly and that is why you are using long mantras. ;-) > > The guru mantra is a mantra that has been passed down in a tradition. > It is the key mantra (also referred to as a "beej mantra" though in a > different sense than beej aksharas) that is used to enliven other > mantras. They are very powerful and given only to disciples. The > initiation of becoming a disciple (shishya) is the passage of the guru > mantra. And in my tradition we will make anyone a disciple who is > sincere and genuine in their desire. > > Many published mantras are "tribal mantras" and included in books > because they are public and the author, if a disciple, can't reveal the > mantras his guru gave him. > > Llundrub wrote: > > >I have never had a guru. > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: Bhairitu > >To: [email protected] > >Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 8:42 AM > >Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: balancing techniques > > > > > >Llundrub wrote: > > > > > > > >>Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: balancing techniques > >> > >> > >>on 6/20/05 10:05 AM, Llundrub at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> > >> Yes, just OM! > >> > >> > >>So I wonder whether meditating on OM by itself might make one a recluse while meditating with a longer mantra that contains OM might not, as my friend suggested in the comment I posted here yesterday. > >> > >>I have a basic problem with these generalizations based on heresay. > >> > >>For the basic reason that when I used to do TM at MIU I wanted to be a recluse and escape from all the cares of the world, and that was using my non-OM mantra. So I can only imagine if what Maharishi says about OM is true that I would have probably wanted to run screaming from samsara. Moreover, my desires had no support at MIU and I was miserable. > >> > >>So I ask, what is the real difference? > >> > >>My experience, which I consider to be the only important thing in the world, confirms for me that the mantras which I have used since TM, most of which contain OM as a part are extremely effective in very vaulable ways, and they have only bettered my life. > >> > >>When I used to do Mahalakshmi Sadhana I used two main mantras which together are: > >>Om shrim klim mahalakshmiyei namaha Om shrim hrim shrim kamala kamalalayei praseed praseed shrim hrim shrim om mahalakshmiyei namaha. Many Oms, I had much benefit from doing this 250,000 times. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ><snip> > >If you have a "guru mantra" then the amount of repetitions required to > >attain mantra siddhi are significantly reduced. It's also interesting > >to note that the "secret" mantras are often much shorter. :) > > > > > >
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