--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 8/14/05 10:20 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > On Aug 14, 2005, at 10:55 AM, authfriend wrote: > > > >> No, think about it for a second, Vaj. How *else* > >> could he have ensured that Guru Dev got the credit > >> for the good stuff without also making him the > >> target of the inevitable criticisms? > > > > You're still using a desperate rationalization to excuse a money- hungry > > used mantra salesman. Sure manasika-japa works, but so does other > > peoples manasika-japa. > > > > In the Shankaracharya tradition it is not unusual for sanyasis to give > > householders an Ishta mantra, a mantra of a personal deity. This has > > several benefits--it helps them calm their minds and get the worldly > > benefit of worldly deities which help in learning and prosperity; in > > other words benefits which would be helpful to someone in the > > householder ashrama. > > Vaj, what do you know about the use of "OM" in a mantra in terms of it's > having a recluse effect or being exclusively for recluses? Or have we > already covered this?
It seems to me that Gurudev DID say something along this line. Perhaps this was Gurudev's invention, or perhaps part of an oral tradition to which he was party. Either way, apparently MMY didn't make up the thing out of whole cloth one day. ------------------------ 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/
