--- In [email protected], Tom Pall <thomas.pall@...> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 8:40 PM, wgm4u <wgm4u@...> wrote: > > > > > > Yet, no matter how you cut it, TM still works, as Tex would say, "Go > > figure"! > > > > And it's the only version of meditation, mantra japa, devotion that > does work, right? Maharishi was not only a great seer (as his title > implies), he delivered to the world the only way to get in contact > with the Self and God. And the only householder way to > enlightenment, as evidence by RC, Rory, Ravi and other "contributors" > to FFL. So TM works, praise be to Maharishi and His legacy.
NO, you've got to read between the lines, TM is Yoga-lite for modernity. MMY never taught Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga per-se, he modified/tailored it for modern man/....and Judy. According to the great Paramahansa Yogananda there are two basic forms of meditation, one is passive (like TM) and the other is active (concentration or Dharana, probably what Maharishi Patanjali actually taught). He (Paramahansa) believed that Hong-sau concentration and Kriya was superior. See "The Science of Religion" which was his first lecture given in these United States...
