--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[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. > Inelegant. Sub-Occam. But as I ask above, who can tell? > *********************** The selection of the mantra is not only based on its utility as a vehicle for transcendence, which is certainly the goal of TM, but also for its ability to harmonize with the deeper, more powerful strata of creation on the way to transcendence. So the mantra is a sound that goes away in TM, leaving the state of pure awareness -- but the vibrations of the sound not only charm the mind onto the path of transcendence, but spread that charm around the subtler fields of life which are found deep in meditation before transcending. ------------------------ 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/
