Marcio: > LOL > What's so funny - where do you think the 'bija' mantras came from? There are no bijas mentioned in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras.
Taken on it's face, there's no reason to assume that a nonsense syllable could cause a person to enter into an altered state. It just doesn't make any sense. So, how did it come to be that anyone would think that by repeating a phrase over and over again would bring anyone any closer to an enlightened state? Some TM Teachers say that MMY 'made up' the TM bija mantras. Another TM Teacher said MMY got the bijas from SBS. One TM Teacher said SBS got the bija mantras from the Adi Shankaracharya, who got the bijas and when he was up in Kashmere. One TM Teacher said the bijas were 10,000 years old and came 'out of India' before the invention of the Sanskrit language. Go figure. So, what, exactly, is a 'bija' mantra and where did they really come from? Definition of 'bija' mantra: Subject: Bijas and Other Seed Sounds Author: Willytex Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: November 26, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/y8h95d6 On the origin of the TM bija mantras: "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..." Read more: Subject: Re: Guru Dev and "Sri Vidya" Author: Billy Smith Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: April 22, 2003 http://tinyurl.com/ye8my2 "You are getting "warmer" when it comes to understanding TM's origins with your posts regarding the Shankaracharya tradition and its practice of Srividya..." Read more: Subject: Re: TM: Siva Sutra Author: James Duffy Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental, alt.yoga, alt.meditation Date: September 21, 2003 http://tinyurl.com/yjwa2yr
