--- In [email protected], bob_brigante <no_re...@...> wrote: > > http://snipurl.com/iyubq [adventuresintranscendentalmeditation_blogspot_com] >
Sometimes its easier to see things through analogy. Without passing judgement on the action. To get an idea of how it looks from the outside. Imagine a Christian evangelist going to India, and before teaching the locals English, teaching them the Hail Mary or the Nicene Creed. "I believe in... one Lord Jesus Christ..". And teaching them that the chant doesn't necessarily have to mean anything. It is not religious and doesn't conflict with Hinduism. But chanting it will lead to salvation; not religious salvation but salvation of some other sort. And then 10 or 20 years later somebody who speaks English comes along and tells them what it means. It would create a firestorm of indignation. I have done TM for many years and it can be very relaxing. But no one can print the TM mantras and credibly deny that they have in fact printed tantric bija mantra names of Lakshmi and Krishna, supplemented later with devotional phrases. As Al Gore said, an inconvenient truth. But there we have it. Other words won't work. Just the names of those Hindu gods. An inconvenient truth in the information age when you can learn more in 5 minutes with google than 25 years ago you could have learned after spending years digging through obscure book stores on foreign continents. So there is some good in that anyway. This is the age when you are what you are. Blue TM.org website comes up on the same google search with gold MOU.org website with the vedic gods. So no sense in not hitting the truth right out of the blocks so you can get on with whatever else you have to say. Even to say "jeepers I never knew that, but yep now that you mention it, they are the names of Hindu gods". Well I guess when I see it said like that I see why its kind of hard to just up and say. Fortunately for me, somebody else's row to hoe to get the branding right.
