The origins of the bija mantras are lost in antiquity. You're making
up myths if you think SBS "discovered" them. I've referenced
Woodroffe's "Garland of Letters" which was published in 1922 as one
example. It's also believed he didn't write those books but were
written by an Indian friend of his who was a tantric.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3009647/Woodroffe-The-Garland-of-Letters
On 10/08/2013 06:10 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
So, it looks like Barry 2 is thinking the bija mantras have been
around for ages. Does that men he thinks the bijas are eternal and
came into the minds of the rishis spontaneously by the grace of Lord
Shiva?
Or, did the bija mantras have a human origin and were passed down from
guru to chela in a long unbroken line leading back to the maha siddhas
of the tantric tradtion?
It has now been established that at least two of the most sacred
bija-mantras, out of the fifteen, contained in the Sound Arya La Hari,
are in fact, TM bija-mantras.
Now, if the Adi Shankara wrote the Sounda, then he must have included
the fifteen bijas contained within, would he not?"
On 10/7/2013 6:13 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
On 10/07/2013 01:02 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
So, where did the meditation of SBS come from?
Meditation is a technique that is common all over India, especially in
the sect of the Sri Vidya. In that tradition they meditate on the bija
mantra of Saraswati. It's the same bija mantra given out in TM
initiation. It's the same technique - it's a meditation using a bija
mantra of Saraswati.
Let's review what we know about SBS.
Rajaram Mishra, later to become Swami Bramhananda Saraswati, was
born on
Thursday, 21 December, 1868 in village Gana, which is close to the city
of Ayodhya, in North India. Rajaram was enrolled at the Sanskrit
Institute at Kashi at the age of eight and later became a student of
Swami Krishnananda Saraswati of Utter Kashi.
http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/parampara.html
Are we agreed so far?
So, we can assume that the SBS learned meditation from SKS who was
initiated by his guru. All the gurus in the Saraswati lineage meditate
on the bija of Saraswati. Their headquarters is at Sringeri. According
to the Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath, the meditation technique used
in TM
originated with the Vedic sage Naryana. It's the same meditation
that is
used by all the Shankaracharyas in that lineage.
So, the TM bija mantras came from SBS, who was a member of the dasanami
order of the Saraswati dandi sannyasins, founded by the Adi Shankara.
The bijas used in TM have been around for ages. And they didn't have
to come from anyone.
