--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Paul Mason" > > <premanandpaul@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > In 'Meditation: easy system propounded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi' > > > (c1959) there is to be found a series of questions which includes > > the > > > following: > > > Q. How does meditation improve the fortune of a man? > > > A. Our system of meditation involves the All Mighty Power. We take > > > the 'MANTRA' of some God according to our faith and meditate on > > that. > > > The power of the 'MANTRA' brings to us the Almighty > > > > Grad students studying ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder) should > > now tune in to observe Judy Stein's next 40 posts in which she > > will demonstrate that Maharishi did NOT mean in that quote that > > TM mantras are the names of gods. > > > > And then she will call you a liar. > > Er, the usual definition of mantra isn't "name."
Of course it isn't. The gods have perfectly good names of their own, and they aren't the same as the bija mantras TM uses. The bija mantras are semantically meaningless sounds that have been *associated with* gods in Hinduism. 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/
