In TM theory, it isn't that mantras are kept secret for the sake of a secret,, but because the process of meditation and the process of speaking the mantra aloud or writing it down, are contrary to one another.
There's even a physiological explanation that might explain why this is so. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > On 04/21/2013 01:14 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: > > Just got off the phone with one of my old TM friends in North Carolina - he > > just finished reading the Secret of the Mantras - if what he told me was > > accurate I don't see how one could read the book and not see what a damned > > old fraud Marshy was > > > > I recall when I came back from TTC I bought a book on the Vedas that had > recently been published. In the book I found the list of many of the > beej mantras used in TM with the statement that "many Indians recite > these mantras before having sex." :-D > > Mantras in general are not secret at all. However one given my a guru > is generally kept secret because of the belief that it will weaken the > effect of the mantra for the practitioner if they give it out. This is > true even if the guru gives everyone the same mantra. >
