On Aug 13, 2005, at 10:09 AM, cardemaister wrote: > I must confess that I'm not sure how bindu-candra is pronounced > in various "fonotactic environments". My gut feeling is it can > only appear in pausa or before a vowel.
After a vowel. In bijas (e.g. the basic TM mantras) there is the consonant that starts the mantra, which determines the type of shakti, the vowel which is the pure shakti herself and then the terminator, the chandra-bindu/nada-bindu--often pron. as a swallowed "-ng", some times like a "mmmm" that fades. The "bindu" is the anusvara. Abhinavagupta says of bindu "Then at the end of the power of action, all that was to be done and has been accomplished is about to enter into the Absolute, but, before doing so, it all exists as the bindu which is essentially knowledge (vedana) and pure light (prakAZamAtra)." Nada/chandra is like the visarga. It's said to be like the sound of a bell fading after it was struck. It eventually ends, that is the nadanta (nAdAnta). > I think in pausa it's > pronounced as an (extended?) 'm'. But perhaps it is actually > pronounced approximately like the last sound of the word that > describes the sound of a telephone when someone is tryiNG to > contact you by it. In English two consonant characters are used > to indicate the presense of that sound at the end of a word. > The sound my TM instructor emphasized was "almost like" the sound > indicated by the letter that is at the beginning of the word when the > rabbi's name is misspelled in a mild word of curse, but its phonetic > value is actually the value of the sound at the beginning of > a word that you usually use when you ask someone to hand something to > you. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
