Who, other than MMY, was teaching TM in 1962? --- In [email protected], "Ingegerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find it real peculiar that with the Householders Mantras, people > try to live in celebacy and be a recluse. It does not make sense to > me. If you meditate with a Householders Mantra, then you should be > very active in society, otherwise it will cause stress. In the > earlier days young people were practising Transcendental Meditation > for hours, dreaming of some life as a recluse in Himalayas. I knew > some of them - and some got very heavy mental problems and some did > suicide. We were not told the difference between Householders Mantras > and Mantras given for recluse life. The fact is that we were not told > anything at all. In 1962, I got the Mantra one day, and the teacher > checked the mantra the day after and then left. The next time I saw > her, was 20 years after. But most of us continued to meditate. That > was the days where we were allowed to practice long meditations - .I > once meditated in 12 hours - and came out quite dizzy, it was rather > dangerous. So in the beginning of the Movement it seems that MMY and > we were learning by doing. "The strongest survived." > Ingegerd > > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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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