This is complete nonsense - Marshy said this to differentiate what he taught
from what was commonly available so he could hood-wink people into believing he
had a superior product. He continued to use the very same scam into his dotage
with his lies about south facing entrance being inimical to human life. Those
two things and every thing else in between he claimed to have the superior
product - and that's what they were and are product to be sold.
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On Thu, 10/24/13, Michael Dean Goodman <tan...@cheerful.com> wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Misuse of 'Om' As a Mantra for Householders - by His
Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, October 24, 2013, 9:30 PM
The Misuse of
'Om' As a Mantra for
Householders
Excerpt from a talk by His
Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1955Published in the book
Beacon
Light of the Himalayas
If the mind is proceeding
through sound, the field of anoraniyan is
the field which transcends the
field of subtlest sound, which is the field
of "no sound"
("ni-shabdam"); and Upanishads call it
"paramam padam". "Nishabdam paramam
padam". This paramam padam is
sat-chitananda, in its essential
nature. The man experiencing it rises to
eter-nal life - a life of eternal
bliss and absolute consciousness.
For training the mind through
sound we can take any word. Even
the word "mic"
[microphone] can be taken. By reducing the sound of
the word "mic" to its
subtler and still subtler stages and allowing the
mind to go on experiencing all the
stages one by one, the mind can be trained to be so sharp as to
enter into the subtlest stage of the
sound 'mic', transcending
which it will automatically get into the realm of
sat-chit-ananda and experience
it. Thus we find that any sound can
serve our purpose of training the
mind to become sharp. But we do
not select the sound at
random. We do not select any sound like
'mic', 'flower',
'table', 'pen', 'wall', etc.,
because such ordinary sounds can do nothing more than merely
sharpening the mind; whereas there
are some special sounds which have
the additional efficacy of producing vibrations whose effects are
found to be congenial to our way of
life. This is the scientific reason
why we do not select any word at
random. For our practice, we select only
the suitable mantras of personal gods [fundamental laws of
nature]. Such
mantras fetch to us the grace of personal gods and make us
happier in every walk of life.
While making a reference to
the mantras, in this manner, I feel
like touching a very vital aspect
of sadhana, which things are blurred in
the present atmosphere of too much
talk of vedanta.
Obviously enough there are two
ways of life, the way of life of a san-yasi [recluse] and the way of
life of a householder. One is quite op-posed to the other. A
sanyasi renounces every thing of the
world, whereas a householder needs
and accumulates everything.
Shastras [vedic scriptures] declare
both the ways of life to be the paths of
eman-cipation. Both are said
to be the moksha-marga [path of liberation]
- nivarthi marga and privathi
marga. The one realizes through
renun-ciation and detachment, while
the other goes through all
attachments and accumulation of all that
is needed for physical life.
We have two different sets of
mantras to suit the two ways of
life. Mantras for the sanyasis have
the effect of increasing the sense of detachment & renunciation, and
also have the power of destroying the objects of worldly
affections, if there should survive any
such objects for him. Quite contrary to this are the
mantras suitable for the householder, which have the
efficacy of harmonizing and enrich-ing the material aspect of life
also.
The mantras of the sanyasi
have a destructive effect in the
material field of life, whereas the
mantras suited to the householder
envisage constructive values also.
'Om' is the mantra for
the sanyasi. The sanyasi repeats 'om',
'om', om'. It is given to him at the time
of 'sanyas-diksha', at the time when
he has completely renounced
attachment to the world. Renunciation
and detachment increase with the
repetition of 'om'; 'om' is chanted
aloud by a sanyasi to put on end to
his desires. Desire are destroyed
by loudly chanting the mantra
'om'. And if there is any desire
deeply rooted in the mind of the
sanyasi, the chanting of 'om' will result
in destruction of the object of
such desire in order to make the
sanyasi wholly desireless. The
sanyasi attains peace through the
renunciation and destruction of desires,
whereas the peace comes to the house-holder when his needs are
satisfied, when his desires are
fulfilled. The mantras for the
householders have the effect of fulfilling the
de-sires.
If, unfortunately, the
householder begins to repeat the pranava
mantra 'om', 'om',
'om', he experiences destructive effects in his
material life. The effect starts with
monetary loss & then goes on to destroy
objects of affection, one by
one. Such a man, when he finds loss of
money and separation from the dear
ones, he is reduced to utter peaceless-ness and frustration.
Where is the chance of spiritual development
or experience of peace and
happiness for such a dejected soul?
The path of peacelessness and
misery in the world cannot lead to eternal happiness. If
the man is proceeding towards eternal
happi-ness, every day he should feel
the increase of peace and happiness, and this alone will assure him
that he is proceeding towards abiding peace and eternal
happiness. If you walk towards the light
you should be able to feel the
increase of light at every step.
If you are spending some time
in devotion to God, you should feel peace and happiness in
life. If you are not feeling peace and
happi-ness you should be wise enough
to doubt the correctness of your devotion, you should be wise
enough to think that your method of de-votion is wrong, that the
mantras that you are repeating do not suit
you.
The mantras that suit the
sanyasis can never suit the
householders. Hundreds of God-loving &
God-fearing families have been ruined
due to the destructive effects of
sanyasa mantra 'om'. 'Om' destroys
de-sires and also destroys the
objects of desires and therefore it
produces calmness of mind and
renunciation and detachment from material
life only to sanyasis when they
repeat 'om'; to them it brings the
experience of peace of mind and from this
experience they generally recommend the chanting of 'om'
to their followers.
But when a householder repeats
'om', he experiences that as long
as he is repeating 'om'
he feels peace of mind, but when he comes out
to indulge in business or
household work, he finds that the air is
against his desire and schemes.
The silencing effect on the mind and
destruc-tive effects in material life,
both are experienced side by side.
Some people say that we should
ignore material life in regard to the devotional practices and
mantras. But this is a fool's ideology. Can
you possibly ignore the
considerations of material life, when the mantras
do affect it?
Select a path which will make
you happier in your material life also.
Do not live in a fool's
paradise. Do not think that your sufferings end
miseries of today will work as
reservations in the galleries of heaven for
tomorrow. Be peaceful and happy in the
present and try to make this state perma-nent. This is the path of deliverance
in life, jivan-mukti [liberation
while living], the most exalted state in human
existence, the state of abiding peace and eternal bliss.
And this you are entitled to
have through correct and suitable
sadhana [spiritual practice].
And because the mantras play an important role
in the field of sadhana, you must
be very very careful in the selection of
the mantra. The theory of
mantras is the theory of sound. It is most
scien-tific and natural.
Ladies should never repeat any
mantra beginning with 'om'. The
pro-nunciation of 'om' is
like fire to the ladies. This is the practical
experience of many devoted ladies who
repeated 'om namah Shivaya' ['om' is
the name of Shiva] or 'om namo
Narayanaya' ['om' is the name of Narayana
- a form of Vishnu] or 'om
namo bhagavate Vasudevaya' ['om' is the
name of Lord Vasudeva - a form of
Krishna] or any such mantra beginning
with 'om'.
It cannot be God's wish
that you should suffer in your devotion to
him. Do not cling to the unhelpful
mantras. The moment you find you
have got into the wrong train, it
is wise to get down from it as soon as
possible. It is foolish to stick on to
the wrong train and go wherever it takes
you.
I hold that the devotees of
the almighty God should not suffer at
all. That is the fundamental
condition of the path to eternal bliss. I hold
that bliss or happiness should
increase at every step till we get into the
realm of eternal happiness. I
hold that the devotees of the God should
enjoy peace and happiness at every
stage, because He is the fountainhead
of all peace and happiness.
It cannot be that our march toward the
light should at any stage increase
the darkness before us. The
march toward the anant anandam must
give the experience of increase of anandam [bliss] at every step
and in every walk of life.
The devotee of the Almighty
cannot suffer. If he is found to suffer,
he cannot be said to be a devotee
of God. It pains me when I find
people suffering in the name of God
and devotion. I offer an open invitation
to such aspirants and seekers of
God. I invite them to come out of
their miserable devotion, and step
into the peaceful, blissful chambers
of sadhana, blessed and illumined
by the divine radiance of Shri Guru Deva. I invite them to
put an end to their sufferings &
peacelessness and crown their day-to-day
life with success, peace, and joy. Do
not waste time and life.
Life is to enjoy. So come on to the field of all
joy. The gates of all glories of
life are open for you. "Make hay when
the sun shines." Avail
the opportunity in hand and enjoy life to the
fullest.
Jai Guru Dev
Michael
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