You know Judy, when you write like you write here, this is your best kind of work, not when you are arguing about something, but when you are filling in gaps in knowledge.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@> wrote: > > > > Denise, > > > > Vedic engineering is the performance of yagyas to the vedic gods to make > > sure that all of one's efforts are successful. Yagyas include the > > recitations of various mantras and performance of symbolic rites, such the > > burning of incense and ghee. Yagyas are traditionally performed by pandits. > > > > But, in general terms, the TM Sidhi Program and the regular TM practice can > > be considered as forms of yagyas. As such, the environment and the > > meditator gain the support of nature, such as the Maharishi Effect. > > > > JR > > Denise, here's another way of looking at "Vedic Engineering." > > There's an ancient tradition in many cultures, including that of the Vedas, > that at its finest levels, the universe is structured of vibrations. In that > context, yagyas can be understood as the articulation of specific > sounds/vibrations that affect the mechanics of the universe at those very > fine levels and bring about specific results on the "gross" levels. > > Some people suspect that the notion of appealing to personified deities was a > metaphorical way of describing this extremely abstract process to people who > didn't have the deep meditative experience to grasp it experientially (as, > presumably, the ancient sages who formulated it did). > > It's really a matter of personal preference which way one thinks about this. > The idea of personified deities doing one's bidding appeals to some; the more > naturalistic abstractions appeal to others. > > MMY appeared to enjoy both. Some TMers are convinced that he came up with the > abstractions merely to disguise the Hindu roots of the practices. Others > think the abstractions may have been more real to him experientially than the > deities, but that his Hindu background gave him a religious context for the > abstractions that he found satisfying. > > You can't really worship an abstract process, after all, and worship, as an > experience of the heart, supplies a kind of fulfillment to many people that > dry intellectual abstractions do not. >
