Mantras are really "cause and effect". They probably weren't "cognized"
at all but developed over time from trial and error. The practice of
meditation cultures the nervous system to support inner silence ("pure
consciousness"). Many of the mantras given have immediate effects to
calm some of the doshas in ayurveda. Those would get credited as "TM
benefits" even though anyone could use those those mantras for that. My
contention is that Maharishi taught teachers to use beej mantras because
as most tantrics will tell you those don't require anything special to
be given out.
On 01/10/2014 02:14 PM, jpgillam wrote:
A question occurred to me recently that I had never considered in all
my years of being a student and teacher of TM: How can we tell whether
TM's benefits result from an experience of pure consciousness or from
some vibrational quality of the mantra?
