--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > 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.
I have it on great authority that the sound of gargling is the ticket in terms of the ultimate anti-kapha sound and the food of choice is candy corn but made with molasses not brown sugar. Oh, and in a pinch, spinach with a little malt vinegar and pepper is marvelous for that pesky kaphaness. Happy Spring! > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Bhairitu <noozguru@...> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 2:58 PM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic Tradition? > > > Â > 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 > >>>>> > > > > >
