On 03/24/2013 11:40 AM, sparaig wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@...> wrote: > [...] >> I don't know about all that. The book's title was derived from that fact >> that when its author became an initiator on the Beatles' TTC, MMY was giving >> out only one mantra. But that's not the most interesting part of the book. >> There was some interesting stuff about Charlie Lutes vs. The Beatles, and >> other stuff I hadn't known. >> > That sounds a bit odd as 10+ years before that, MMY was saying that we "use > the mantras [plural] to fetch the grace of the gods [plural]." > > Odd that he would only use one mantra 10 years later. > > > L
He was speaking about mantras in general. There are a many, many mantras and they are used for different things. Giving one mantra for meditation would not be unusual. For the masses you generally give a shanti or shiva mantra for meditation. Even with those two groups there are many to choose from.
