--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Doughney" <mike@...> wrote: > > Looks like Curtis wonderfully summarized the absurdity of all > the mantra madness.
Well, he sure did hyperbolize it. > I have similar feelings about what would > happen if the occasional movement claims that the mantra list > was vetted as being meaningless by the Berlitz language people > were challenged. Berlitz, for me, would be the last people to > ask about the esoteric internals of the religious traditions > of India, but this is, of course, a marketing operation we're > talking about. Never heard that particular claim. But most people who ask whether the mantras mean anything are asking about *semantic* meaning, not meanings ascribed to them by "the esoteric internals of the religious traditions of India." I suspect it would be entirely appropriate to ask Berlitz about whether the mantras have semantic meaning.
