On 8/1/2014 8:30 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Janov's Primal Therapy has led a lot of people to mental breakdown
also. (Google "Primal Therapy".) I'm not knocking the guy (I want us
to experiment with as many therapies as possible) but there will
obviously be tragedies as we learn to unravel the mysteries of the mind.
On the subject of mantras: my understanding is that MMY only used the
one mantra when he first started.
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In original TM there were two bija mantras: 'Ram' and 'Shyam', according
to what I've read. MMY later added the bija for Saraswati, 'Aing' and
fourteen others. In more advanced techniques, words such as 'namah' were
added, but in TM you get only one single bija mantra. Bija 'mantras', by
definition, have no semantic meaning - that's why they're called 'bija
mantras' instead of being called 'words'.
So, let's review: in basic TM you get the single seed sound (bija) and
the fertilizer, and you get the simple instructions for the correct
angle to dive. You do NOT get two or three bijas. /You only get one
single bija mantra in TM initiation./
It has already been established that at least two of the most sacred
bija-mantras, out of the sixteen, contained in TM instruction and in
the /Sound Arya La Hari /by the Adi Shankaracharya, are in fact, TM
bija-mantras.
TM and the Sri Vdya Tradition:
http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/srividya.htm
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Some FFLifers don't like us posting mantra details so here is a clue:
noun
1. a male sheep.
2. (initial capital letter) Astronomy, Astrology. the constellation or
sign of Aries.
3. any of various devices for battering, crushing, driving, or forcing
something.
MMY's use of that one mantra was in place until the end of the sixties
so surely the celebrity pop stars who learned TM during those swinging
sixties should have been given the same mantra? As the celebs would no
doubt eventually reveal their syllable to each other, I'm guessing MMY
made an exception for the fab four and gave them each a unique mantra.
As for George Harrison's mantra we have a clue. From a Google search:
"In an initiation the master, after appraising the personality of the
neophyte, gives him a secret mantra, a word whose vibrations harmonize
with those of the person himself. Saying the word silently during
meditations twice daily, concentrating on it, the initiate is able to
let "gross" surface thought drift while consciousness descends to the
depths where it is in tune with the infinite. The mantra is usually in
Sanskrit, but George Harrison has stated that his is an English word
included in the lyrics of the Beatles' song I Am the Walrus."
I've listened to the walrus song but can't pick it out. See if you
have better luck . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap6kSV_U45o
