[FairfieldLife] Re: "No Effort" means no need for self-reflexive monitoring

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Authfriend: 
 Gee, in my understanding, you get only one bija mantra when you're initiated. 
The advanced techniques aren't new bija mantras, they're actual Sanskrit words 
that you use with your original bija mantra. Am I wrong? I have only one 
advanced technique, and that was the case for me.
  
 Yes, that is true. Supposedly, we only get one bija mantra. It is later used 
with Sanskrit words that interject certain meanings and actions – for TM they 
are shama akshara-s (i.e. peaceful, laudatory and surrendering seed-sounds). 
  
 However, this is not true for TM teachers since, by definition, they received 
a well-known sequence of bija mantras used to initiate students. Most teachers 
appear to use this group of mantras only to initiate. However, the whole group 
of mantras is fully charged and available for meditation whenever used in that 
manner. Most TM teachers don’t like to talk about this possibility - proly 
because they are apprehensive about it being “off the program”. I have done so 
(of course) and find this collection rather too intense to use for the sake of 
mere curiosity. In the live-a-day world, such potency, distinctive qualities 
and effacing intensity is more suited to those renunciate sadhus keen to finish 
off their stock of prarabdha karma.