--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, a_non_moose_ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "anonyff" <anonyff@> wrote: > > > > On TTC in Mallorca, Jan-June 1971, Brahmarishi Devarat and his son > > (who looked like Tonto from the Lone Ranger) were often at meetings > > and we would ask Devarat question after question and Maharishi was our > > interpreter. My appeared to be having great fun in this job, he often > > found Devarat's answers both funny and illuminating. > > > > Someone asked him this question-if there is anything we can say to > > someone who is dying. As near as I can recall, he told us to say, in > > the person's ear, *wok, wok, wok* I believe it is actually spelled > > vak and I also think I remember it is translated as *speech* or > > *sound* > > > Thats odd. I heard M. say that it was in the tradition of ancient > India to whisper Vac three times in a new born baby's ear. (Vac > meaning sound.)
I believe in Sanskrit "vac" is a lemma ("dictionary form"). The sound represented in transliteration by 'c' or 'ch' (cakra, chakra) is not allowable at the end of a word, but it appears in some (inflected or) conjugated forms of that root. The "correct" form would thus be "vak", or perhaps rather "vaak", because "vac" with a short a is a verbal root that doesn't mean anything as such, but "vaak" (lemma: vaac) is a noun meaning e.g. 'speech'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemma_%28linguistics%29 That the nervous system was so delicate that this > impression would quickly lead the youth to the transcendant as he grew > up. > > A few years later, I was on a course where someone asked M about "the > baby technique" -- what to whisper in a new born's ear. M was > "furious". Going on and on about there is no baby technique and what > he had said about a practice in ancient India was not a technique to > use .... and how could people be so stupid .." paraphrasing > > Are you sure you are remembering the Devarat story correctly? I was > on the same course. From early Dec. I don't remember any words at > death from Deverat. Though it may be the Vac birth story came from > him. The more I think about it, I think that may be the case. > ------------------------ 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/