On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Ravi Chivukula <chivukula.r...@gmail.com>wrote:
> White Indian..LOL, anyway a plain ol' dark skinned Indian here MJ and > mantras are so lame and boring. I would fall asleep - I found more joy in > singing and dancing, I still do. The last time I chanted a whole 108 times > because ah, a White Indian/Hindu I loved asked me to and there was no way > in hell I was going to say no to her. Heck, I could have tapped into my Brahmin genes, composed a whole 108 names in her praise and chant it daily for the rest of the eternity. Repressed and perverted Hindus say that the world is Maya - what bullshit. Of what use is the intensely subjective love I feel if I cannot objectively express it to a woman in the context of a intimate, personal, meaningful relationship. Oh no I love Maya - I love the objective world where I can express my subjectivity - my own unique expression. So yeah I am all for chanting as long as it's not for some fantasized God or Goddess. > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:35 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com < > no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > >> ** >> >> >> I'll answer this as a white "Indian", if that is OK -- Maharishi drilled >> the point into our heads ceaselessly, that his was a reconfiguration of >> knowledge already present. >> >> He found that by invoking these mantras mentally, using the TM technique, >> the results were both far stronger, and longer lasting than vocalizing the >> mantras. In addition, his technique can be practiced by those in the West. >> >> As to being taught that the mantras are meaningless sounds, they are, >> unless one lives God Realization. Better to let the students realize the >> *meaning* of the mantra, over time. >> >> >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: >> > >> > Spent some time talking to someone who was close to Marshy (a former >> governor) and was told that the TM mantras are not meaningless Vedic >> sounds, they are Hindu mantras and the practice of TM is actually a Hindu >> devotional practice of chanting the names of aspects of Goddess. He also >> said that contrary to what we were were told, in India people speak these >> bija mantras out loud, sing them to the skies if they so desired. Thoughts >> on the matter? >> > >> >> >> > >
