That was a good question. No need to waste it on Turd. LOL.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote:
>
> --- 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.
>
