-My motto is "whatever works"...not what some asshole said 5,000 years ago.
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <willy...@...> wrote: > > menkemeyer wrote: > > Om Namah Shivaya is known as the great redeeming > > mantra also known as five-syllable mantra. > > > Maybe so, but any word or phrase can be considered > a 'mantra'. > > However, there are no mantras used in TM practice > - we use only non-semantic tantric 'bija' mantras. > > If you insist on chanting 'Om Namah Shivaya' then > you're probably not practicing TM. > > If you wanted to, you could chant any number of > Sanskrit phrases, but why go to the bother of > memorizing Sanskrit phrases - you might just as > well use English for that purpose and repeat 'I > bow down to the old fakir'. There are no 'magic' > words in Sanskrit. > > > > The Muktananda apparently used to chant this > > > phrase, but he didn't get any esoteric bijas > > > from his teacher Nityananda - maybe the Mukta > > > just read it in a booklet somewhere. >
