> > you do not know all there is to know about the > > Indian traditions. > > Vaj wrote: > That's correct, I don't know everything about > Indian traditions, but neither does anyone else. > And neither do I, but this is what I know:
Swami Lachsmanjoo was a great friend of the Marshy's, as the photo cited proves beyond a doubt. Jerry Jarvis said about this photo that the Swami was ecstatic when the TTC course visited his ashram. They all meditated together for hours, each using their very own bija mantra given to them by the Marshy. Now that's Trika! http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/images/lakman01.jpg According to John Hughes, (TTC Rishikesh-Kashmere 1968), the Lachsman practiced a meditation that was just like TM and he was checked by the Marshy himself. In fact, according to John Hughe's son, Vivek, the designated successor to Swami Lachsmanjoo, the Swami often refered to the Marshy as his 'meditation teacher.' The Swami reccomended meditation to all his students. These are the facts. As for the Trika doctrine, it's very similar to Shankara's Vedanta, which is a form of the Vasubandhu 'Consciousness Only' school. All similar. They were ALL transcendentaly meditating. All the Upanshadic sages were transcendentalists. There's only One Transcendental.
