1940's, Showing the Origins of ™.. Nice quotes from the introduction below.
“i felt so happy with my mantra, but i kept forgetting it while my fingers were moving automatically. In each round this happened! What can I do about it?!” a wonderful smile was on Guru Dev’s face. “FOUND!” he exclaimed. “You have learnt to transcend the mantra! Excellent! You transcended the mantra which wants to go back to the source. The best thing that can happen! When you are aware of having forgotten the mantra you quietly pick up the mantra again and continue happily. This was very good meditation. Continue meditating like that now and tonight and report to me tomorrow morning.” So very happy checkings followed.’ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <he...@hotmail.com> wrote : This must be old news, but new to me: Before Guru Dev became Shankaracharya, on September 14th 1940 someone by the name of Raj Varma made his way across Jabalpur to where Guru Dev was staying, in order to become an initiate of Guru Dev:- 'So before sunrise Dr. Varma came full of joy to his initiation. Guru Dev did the puja with his fruit and flowers and then gave him his mantra and asked him to sit down. He gave him a rosary. An indian rosary has mostly 108 beads. Guru Dev told Dr. Varma to close his eyes and repeat the mantra and with every mantra touch a new bead so that the rosary would go forward in his hand with each mantra. Then he told him to only think the mantra easily without speaking it any more while his fingers moving forward touched the beads. The rosary has one extra bead attached to it where you start and where eventually you finish the round of 108. When Guru Dev saw that Dr. Varma had reached the end of the round at the extra bead, he told him to stop thinking the mantra. After some time he told him to open his eyes slowly. Read more: http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/introduction.htm http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/introduction.htm
