When all the snow starts melting, the kaphaness of kapha season is gonna hit like a ton of bricks. I wonder if there's a sound that's good for all 3 doshas just as there are a few foods that are good for all 3.
________________________________ From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 2:58 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic Tradition? I need to find the Primordial Sound tape as I think it has the Gayatri Mantra on it. In ayurveda Om is considered useful to calm vata though Ram is favored. On 02/28/2013 06:30 AM, navashok wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, srijau@... wrote: >> the non-use of Om by householders is very well documented to have been >> emphasized by Swami Brahmananda Saraswati. > No argument about this here. But the reason is the caste system and > orthodoxy. According to extreme conservatives, any mantra of the Vedas could > not be pronounced by Non-Brahmins, and women. You can read the passage about > women and Om from the Beacon Light of the Himalaya, that Xeno uploaded to the > files. Same is true for the Gayatri Mantra, it is not taught in the TM > movement. Other spiritual Hindu based movements are less conservative and > advocate it. > >> There is so many famous mantras that do not use Om at all ... " Shree Rama >> Jaya Rama...etc the examples are very many. > Yes, but they are not Vedic. If they would be Vedic, that is, if they would > occur in the Rig Veda for example, they would be equally disallowed by the > movement. The Shankaracharya order of the Saraswati branch, to which Guru Dev > belonged to is the MOST conservative of all the orthodox orders. Only > Brahmins could become Swamis, that is also the reason that Maharishi never > became a Swami. And that is also the reason why his body was cremated instead > of buried. The movement uppers and Rajas would have wanted the body to be > burried, and have a real Samadhi, but the current Shankaracharya, even though > supportive of the movement did not allow. > > The question for me is therefore: how much do you believe in the caste system > and all the orthodox rules? If I don't believe in the caste system, I have no > reason to reject OM for meditation. In fact it would simplify things a lot. > Everybody knows it, knows it's proper pronunciation, and it is not directly > connected to any gods, it is not sectarian or cultic. > > For example Shree Rama Jaya Raam Jaya Jaya Raam is a Vaishnavic Mantra and > associated with Rama. There might be Shaivas who don't like it. There are > Shaivas who don't visit Vaishanava temples. > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: >>> >>> >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok wrote: >>>> >>>> I think there is only one truly Vedic mantra and that is OM. >>> Dear Nava, >>> Real TM tru-believers strongly hold that Maharishi's revival of Knowledge >>> has saved India from `Om". I have been lectured several times on this very >>> point by extremely faithful TM people who seem quite convinced. You'll >>> notice that none of the TM versions of mantras on the TM-X website notice >>> `Om' as any part of a TM mantra. Though Shri Vidya and everyone else going >>> back use "Om" to initiate or energized mantras. Is TM missing something? >>> Maharishi uniquely seems a Vedic out-layer on this in the distribution of >>> sages on mantras. >>> I like `Om' myself to spin the root and tune the heart and then go from >>> there. But that is different from TM and should not be confused even >>> though chakras well light up upon proper awareness and practice of the >>> TM-sidhis. But at that point it is independent of employing 'Om' or much >>> of anything else. >>> Best Regards from Fairfield, >>> -Buck >>> >>> >>>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> navashok: >>>>>> Where does the TM technique come from? >>>>>> >>>>> From India and the Vedas? LoL! >>>>> >>>>> According to Mircea Eliade, only the rudiments of classic >>>>> Yoga are to be found in the Vedas, and while shamanism and >>>>> other techniques of ecstasy are documented among other >>>>> Indo-European people, "Yoga is to be found only in India >>>>> and in cultures influenced by Indian spirituality" (102). >>>> I think there is only one truly Vedic mantra and that is OM. What >>>> Maharishi teaches as the Vedic tradition is actually the Tantric tradition >>>> appropriated by Brahmanism, through the teaching of Shri Vidhya. With >>>> Vedic literature, he means the Agamas. >>>> >>>> >>>>> Work cited: >>>>> >>>>> 'Yoga : Immortality and Freedom' >>>>> by Mircea Eliade >>>>> Princeton University Press, 1970 >>>>> >>>>> Read more: >>>>> >>>>> Subject: A decomposition of practice ertswhile abusers lore >>>>> Author: Willytex >>>>> Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental >>>>> Date: February 6, 2005 >>>>> http://tinyurl.com/ykqy7zh >>>>> >>>>> Other titles of interst: >>>>> >>>>> 'Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy' >>>>> by Mircea Eliade >>>>> Princeton University Press; 2004 >>>>> >>>>> 'The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, >>>>> Philosophy and Practice' >>>>> by Georg Feuerstein and Ken Wilbur >>>>> Hohm Press, 2001 >>>>> > >
