And MMY used beej aksharas as meditation mantras because they don't require any activation by a guru. Anyone can use them and even out of a book. Solved the problem of creating lots of teachers. The puja probably helped a bit but also explains why some people had kundalini experiences trying a mantra out of a book as well as why some former TM teachers could teach ad hoc meditation that worked without doing a puja beforehand.
On 08/11/2013 01:11 PM, emptybill wrote: > The word "conscious-ness" means a state, a quality, a condition or a > degree of being conscious. > > It is from the Latin prefix "com-/con-" meaning "together with" > and the root "scire" meaning "to know". It signifies the pairing > between an act of knowing and a known object. > > CC, GC, UC are just terms that were made up. > > Shankara only talked about YouSee > > >
