--- In [email protected], "metoostill" <metoost...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], bob_brigante <no_reply@> 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. >
But not names, anyway, and did MMY ever say other words "wouldn't work," or merely that they wouldn't be as effective? And why do you care what explanation a Hindu monk gives for something? Is some aspect of ayurvedic medicine religious because tradition says it was presented to some vaidya by a god? And, as I pointed out, what the f- are you doing telling me what is religiously significant about any practice I choose to indulge in? I can understand if it is important to you or to someone else, because most people like to meddle each others' belief systems, but your beliefs ABOUT my beliefs and practices are irrelevant to me even if they are world-shatteringly important to you. L.
