duh! Not ALL of us, MJ, king of lumping together! Richard, I think you're often intentionally funny and I enjoy the knowledge you post and I don't think you're any more unhinged than any of the rest of us. So there and go figure!
________________________________ From: Michael Jackson <mjackso...@yahoo.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What Maharishi did NOT say ... even your supporters here in FFL all seem to think you are unhinged ________________________________ From: Richard J. Williams <rich...@rwilliams.us> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 9:50 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: What Maharishi did NOT say ... emptybill: > Shankara wrote refutations of yoga as a vedic > ultimate but accepted it as a provisional > practice to assist someone searching for ultimate > knowledge/practice... > So, let's sum up what we know: It has already been established that the 'TM' practice derives from the teachings of Swami Brahmanand Saraswati. Brahmanand was a Dasanami Swami whose headquarters was at Sringeri. All the Saraswati Swamis are tantrics who worship the Tripuransundari and belong to the Sri Vidya sect. The worship of Shri Vidya has been popular in India from very ancient times. Swami Gaudapada, the teacher of Shankaracharaya, was a worshiper of Sri Vidya. Following his initiation, Shankara wrote a lucid ode to Shri Vidya, the Sound Ariya Lahari, a translation of which is now available in English. The TM bija mantras are enumerated in the main scripture of Sri Vidya, the Sounda, which according to tradition, was composed by the Adi Shankara. Many disciples of Shankaracharya were worshipers of Sri Vidya, such as Sureshvara, Padmapada, Vidyaranya and the brother of Chaitanya, Nityanand. Abhinavagupta, and our own Swami Brahmananda Saraswati were both Sri Vidya tantrics. The TM bija mantras are derived from the tantric Sri Vidya tradition of Karnataka and are enumerated in the Sound Arya Lahari. There is a shrine to Shankara at the Sri Vidya temple down in Kanchipuram peeth, wherein lies the Sri Yantra. Swami Rama has recounted in his book, 'Living With the Himalayan Masters', a direct, first hand account of Guru Dev having a Sri Yantra in his possession. All we as TMers need to know is that all the Saraswati gurus follow the Sri Vidya tradition.
