--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Tom Pall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you familiar with Prayer? Do you send God a MapQuest URL > > when you say a prayer for yourself or someone else? > > Cute. But I'm with Jeff here. I bailed from the TMO > long before all this stuff came up, so like him (if I'm > not mistaken about what he was asking), I'm officially > without a clue as to why some people consider yagyas > worth paying money for. Could someone fill me in with > answers to the following questions?
Hey, I'm still stuck on the spelling and pronunciation. Why "yagna" and not "yagya" when that's how it's pronounced... > > * Is the idea somehow that because the prayers are > in Sanskrit it'll be easier for God to hear, without > the need for translators? > > * Is the idea (as I think Jeff asked) that the pundits > are somehow more evolved or more established in the > "Field of Infinite Correlation" than anyone else? > > * Are there specific chants or verses related to specific > requests? For example, if your mother-in-law is bother- > some, is there a verse just for fixing mother-in-law > problems? > > * Since all of the yagya "providers," both within the > TMO and outside of it, seem to make a Big Deal about > using only Brahmins to do the chanting, would the yagya > not work as well if a Kshatriya did it? Or, God forbid, > a Sudra? > > * As Tom himself points out above, if you pray yourself, > it's not like you have to supply a whole heckuva lot of > information. Why is such information necessary (if it is) > for a yagya? > > These questions may appear cynical, and may in fact be, > but I missed this whole scene. I found out that TMers > were sending large sums of money off to India to have > people chant for them only upon discovering TM-related > chat groups on the Internet, decades after I'd left the > org behind. So I really AM interested in the question > I posed before -- what on earth HAPPENED to make a bunch > of people who used to pride themselves on their movement's > non-religiosity and supposed scientific basis suddenly > start hiring people in India to pray for them? > > I mean, to someone like myself who missed the whole PR > routine that was used to sell this, it's as shocking as > if I'd heard that TMers were being encouraged to send > large donations to TV evangelists so that *they* would > pray for them. To me it looks like pretty much the same > scenario -- what is it that convinces some people in > the TM movement that there's a difference? Thanks in > advance... > > Unc > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Jeff Fischer > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 10:57 AM > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yagna by Choice > > > > I left TM prior to hearing about yagya technology, so don't know > > much about it. ------------------------ 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/
