From what I've read, SBS's student Hariharananda Saraswati, otherwise
known as the Karpatri Swam, was a great Sri Vidya adherent. So, if SBS
was not a Sri Vidya adherent where do you suppose the Karpatri Swami
learned the Sri Vidya, if not from SBS? Apparently this information is
not covered by Domash or Mason. Nobody in the TMO apparently wants to
talk about where the Saraswati bija mantra came from. Go figure.
http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/parampara.html
"He was also the great expert of Shree Vidya and probably all the
present day experts in Varanasi have somehow or the other obtained Shree
vidya from him or his pupils."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Karpatri
On 10/7/2013 4:42 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:
Seraphita, if you're interested in what Maharishi wanted known about
the origins of Transcendental Meditation (i.e., the specific technique
he taught), see here (it's a 1993 post from the Usenet newsgroup
alt.meditation.transcendental, now archived on Google Groups):
http://tinyurl.com/34bras
The post contains the first half of the introductory essay by Larry
Domash to the first volume of the Collected Papers (research studies
on TM, published in 1975). The whole thing (that is, the whole first
half) is of interest, but Domash gets to the nitty-gritty about the
origins of TM in the paragraph beginning "As an unusually talented
student..." if you want to skip the background.
Rick Archer has said he was present when Domash read the essay to
Maharishi for his approval, so we can be pretty sure it reflects the
account Maharishi wanted told. (Whether it's 100 percent accurate is
anyone's guess.) It doesn't exactly answer your question, but it seems
clear that Maharishi didn't simply parrot the meditation instructions
given by Guru Dev (or at least didn't want that to be the story).
Seraphita wrote to Richard:
So if I'm following your post correctly that means Guru Dev's own
initiation into meditation was essentially an initiation into
"transcendental meditation" (before it had that name obviously) - just
like you and me! Would that have been just a beginner's technique
which he would later have abandoned? And, if so, are there details of
what his later practice was?
