You might try reading the Gita again.
From: "Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Group chanting
It doesn't take many lifetimes, it takes a proper teacher who is qualified
to teach it: an acharya. That said, some here may have been practicing sadhana
for many lifetimes anyway.
On 05/11/2016 09:04 AM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
It may be *yoga lite*, but I doubt many westerners are really ready for
the *yoga heavy*. Maharishi was offering something for the masses. It is as
effective as you are willing to make it. One of the last instructions in the
initial course, in order to gain CC is, *don't do anything you know is wrong*.
Most people can't even *begin* to live up to that instruction.
I was into the 5-8 year plan myself in the beginning but eventually realized
that was just a hook in the jaw to reel you in, as are the rest of the
*programs*. Real yoga requires many births with steady progress along the way.
Best to learn to walk before you try running, patience Grasshopper! There is a
story in one of the Upanishads in which a shishya asks his master how much
longer to gain enlightenment.The master said "see the leaves of this great tree
that we sit under? One life time for every leaf." The shishya, seeing tens of
thousands of leaves, was elated that at last, the end to the endless cycle of
birth and death was in view.
Krishna said "only after many lives of this practice does one come to Me" Of
course M had to weasel his way around that by saying it meant after many
experiences of transcending, not births. He admitted that it was a verse that
discouraged people from even trying.The duty of a master is to encourage the
disciple. That has been M's goal all along. The carrot and the stick. Let them
think enlightenment is just around the corner. And maybe it is for a person or
two.
From: "Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]"
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To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Group chanting
And at the end of the day, TM is still just "yoga lite." Folks need
to try the real stuff. ;-)
On 05/11/2016 05:14 AM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
I have to agree here. Nobody, at least on this forum, knows everything
Guru Dev taught. He was said to be a master of all yogas.I feel pretty
confident that even Maharishi would admit that he didn't know everything Guru
Dev knew. BTW, it's said that Maharishi gave entirely different mantras to
Indians based on their family deity, at least at one time.
From: "emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
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To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 8:29 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Group chanting
You are merely speculating about a topic you don't know anything about
- without sufficient information at hand.
I received a mantra with omkara from SSRS in 1998. I asked a Sankhya-Yoga
scholar (a former TM teacher) about it and he pointed out that it was a
traditional polysyllabic maha-mantra and was perfectly acceptable in the view
of the Shankaracharya tradition (sampradaya).
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