> > > What is less well known is just who his guru was... > > > RD wrote: > Thanks Willytex for the excellent link to the source > of our tradition and the TM mantras. > But I wonder why you won't read anything about this on Paul's Guru Dev site - Paul has been to India numerous times to search for information? Paul seems to have plenty of time to post to TMFree. Go figure.
"According to my informant, the 33rd Shankaracharya of the Sringeri Matha died before he could give all the initiations to the 34th, his succossor. However, the 33rd is reputed to have said: "Worship of Sri Chakra is a must for the Swamis of the peetha..." Read more: Subject: So, let's go figure From: Willytex Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: December 17, 2003 http://tinyurl.com/yagbwpy "Bija mantras issued by TM are ''Sri Vidya'' bija mantras. To be fair, I won't go into what they are, but if one listens to all TM mantras, except for 2, they are 2 or 3 syllable, and this is a very important component of the technique..." - Billy Smith ""The goddess Tripurasundari is jnana shakti...so she is the favored form of the Goddess for many Vedantins and practitioners of the yoga of knowledge (jnana yoga, atma vichara, etc)." - James Duffy 'Swami Brahmananda was one of the rare siddhas who had the knowledge of Sri Vidya...One thing very attractive about his way of teaching was his combination of the bhakti and advaita systems...Swami Brahmananda had a Sri Yantra made out of rubies, and as he showed it to me, he explained the way he worshipped it." - Swami Rama 'Living with the Himalayan Masters' By Swami Rama Himalayan Institute Press, 1978 http://tinyurl.com/y8seuey
