No, the longer mantras are usually given along with the jump start of
shaktipat. That's something Maharishi also did. But if shaktipat was
required for TM teachers he might have wound up with only a few dozen.
Beej mantras can be given by anybody so it was a shortcut. The beejs
are more like tilling the soil while the advanced techniques the seed to
plant. The beej mantras aren't faster, they're just little sparks of
shakti. However they do have some useful effects. Otherwise they
wouldn't be used in ayurveda and jyotish.
On 04/16/2014 07:29 PM, [email protected] wrote:
The long-term outcome of all mantras is that they lead to samadhi.
Some work faster than others, which, ironically, is the point of
advanced techniques: the dive is more shallow, so the progression to
samadhi takes longer.
So that doesn't explain the striking difference between TM and other
mantra-based methods. It's not the fact that a simple, fast-working
mantra was being used. If that was the case, then other practices
would show the simplest state of awareness slower, but instead, they
show it LESS, the longer people have been practicing.
L
