> > > You get the single bija, and the fertilizer > > > to go with it. > > > > > The powerful bija mantras need fertilizers.... > > that explains everything. > > Yes, the TM seed-sounds are so powerful that they need some fertilizer to slow down their growth impact on the nervous system, otherwise the TMer might blow up into a thicket of wild flowers like the ones in the Upper Kashi.
Valley of Flowers National Park: http://tinyurl.com/qgxkag TurquoiseB wrote: > It certainly explains some of the fertilizer > being spread around by people who claim that > that they have no meaning... > It sure does, Mr. Turqy! Bija 'mantras', by definition, have no semantic meaning - that's why they're called 'mantras' instead of being called 'words'. If the bijas were Sanskrit words, there would be no need for a definition of them, since their meaning would be obvious to anyone who could read Sanskrit. So, let's review: in basic TM you get the single seed sound and the fertilizer and you get the simple instructions for the correct angle to dive. You do NOT get any supposed 'nicknames of the gods', or any esoteric metaphysics. But, a few respondents on FFL think that the bijas are the nicknames of the gods and that you can get them from books and dictionaries; one thinks he got four bijas all at the same time; one thinks that the bijas have semantic meaning; and another thinks that 'meditation' isn't meditation but is 'mindfullness'. It's not clear if any of these informants were once TM teachers, but if they were, that explains a lot. Go figure. Updated definition of bija mantra: 1. A morpheme or quasi-morpheme, or a phoneme, or quasi-phoneme, or a series of mixed morphemes and phonemes, or a series mixed quasi-phoneme and quasi-phonems, arranged in traditional patterns, which are imparted by one teacher to one student in the course of instruction, in which a sound is taken as a non-ideational mnemonic device for use in deep meditation...
