What I've heard is that om or aum causes one to be more detached from life and thus is not suitable for householders. Emptybill, thanks for distinction about om alone vs om in a phrase which I often encounter in bhajans and kirtan. Judy, I personally would not want to mess with combining om with my mantra because it's not just the sounds that are having a specific and beneficial effect on the physiology, it's also the sequence in which they occur which is doing so.
On Thursday, October 24, 2013 8:16 AM, "authfri...@yahoo.com" <authfri...@yahoo.com> wrote: So what would the problem be if "OM" wasn't included in a maha-mantra but rather along with, say, a bija mantra like what TM uses? Did Sri Sri give out bija mantras, or just the maha-mantras? emptybill wrote: > SSRS, a vedic pandit, has given out OM as part of traditional > maha-mantras. After receiving one from him, I asked the OM > question to a sankhya-yoga scholar, a former TMer and student of SSRS. He > said "No possible problem if > included within a traditional maha-mantra ... like om namo bhagavate > vasudevaya." ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote: He said OM was a mantra for recluses, I believe. It's in Beacon Light of the Himalayas. Buck wrote: So[m], what was Maharishi's particular teaching on "Om"? His was counter to everything "Om", wasn't it. He did not use "Om" in any of the mantras he gave. Succinctly, what was that? What is unique about his Vedic studies around "Om"? I got a dressing down recently about how Maharishi saved India around the understanding of "Om". What did he say that "Om" "aum" was so bad that puts him opposed to "Om"? While at the same time Brahmananda Saraswati [Guru Dev] it seems was very in favor of "Om" spiritually. See Guru Dev's discourses. Who do you believe? What is your experience with "Om"? I find it the vibration of the giant electro-magnet of nature turning over in the center of the Earth and unified sound of all of Nature and great to attune to as such to spin and line up the chakras of the subtle system . It seems the energetic pre-condition that all the nervous systems on earth have evolved with. It runs deep as a vibration (when people sit up) in the Dome as a vortex. Maharishi seems to have put the wammy of fear in to "Om" for the TM spiritual community. Does that explain something about the TM community? What is your experience with it and what was really said about it? Just wondering, -Buck ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <cardemaister@...> wrote: (Not to be taken all too seriously...) Just as 'om' may be "embedded" in the word 'soma', so in the tanakh (Hebrew Bible =~ Old Testament) it may be embedded in the word 'yom' (day) that appears several times in the first verses of bereshit (Genesis)...
