on 12/27/05 3:55 PM, Patrick Gillam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- Rick Archer wrote: >> >> And although on some superficial level it may be true that the "vibratory >> influence" of the mantra causes TM to work, ultimately, the benefits result >> from aligning oneself with the "impulse of intelligence" or Devata that the >> mantra represents. > > Is there any way to tell whether TM's influence results > from the mantra's vibe or from the experience of pure > consciousness, which is what happens when the mantra > fades away? > > The old TM explanation always made sense to me -- that > the mantra is a sound that tends to go away, leaving one's > awareness without an object; leaving it aware of awareness > itself. > > This notion that TM's benefits come from the sound's vibration, > or from an entity associated with that sound, seems primitive.
Actually, Maharishi always said, and we said in lectures, that you could transcend on any sound but that the mantras, due to their life-supporting vibratory quality, provided benefits that other sounds didn't. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
