--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul Mason wrote: > > >Guru Dev - Shankaracharya Swami Brahmanand Saraswati gives a few > >words about when and how to meditate. > >Translation by Paul Mason 31st August 2006
Paul, just how far do you think MMY would have gotten in teaching people around the world to meditate if he had been teaching a la Guru Dev? Or, what do you think would have happened if MMY had taught as he did, and these instructions from Guru Dev had been translated and made available through the TMO? How many TMers would have decided they were going to try it Guru Dev's way, and what would have been the result? Especially in the absence of Guru Dev's personal guidance? What was MMY going to say, "No, no, don't do what Guru Dev instructed, do what I instruct"? You keep suggesting that there's something sinister about MMY not promoting Guru Dev's actual teaching, but that's one of the silliest criticisms I've encountered. MMY obviously *didn't have a choice* if he wanted TM to be universally accepted--or even to *work*, for that matter. The context in which Guru Dev taught was just too different. I suppose MMY could have issued a carefully bowdlerized version of Guru Dev's lectures with all the sectarian Hinduism taken out. What would you have thought of that? What would have been left? Would that have been true to Guru Dev's intent? If you want to bash MMY for going global with TM instead of staying back in India and teaching a few people exactly what Guru Dev taught, ishtas and all--or for teaching anything in the first place-- fine. But if you don't disapprove of his wanting to make TM universal, you really don't have a leg to stand on in suggesting that he is dishonoring Guru Dev by not promoting his original teachings. That just makes no sense at all. > >"At daybreak and in the day do that fit puja and dhyaana etc, but at > >night before sleeping you should certainly do 10-15 minutes of japa > >of the 'ishhTa mantra kaa japa' and 'dhyaana' of the 'ishhTa muurti' > >(desired form). From this 'upaasanaa' (sitting near / devout > >meditation) quick advancement occurs. > > > >In darkness you should sit with eye closed and do japa of the mantra, > >and in the same way with eye closed you should do dhyana of the > >ishhTa with the mind. Not on their whole body, you should look on the > >foot or on the mouth area of the head, seeing the full of compassion > >of our favourite ishhTa, looking infused with tenderness. The vision > >of the ishhTa becomes one's own desire. You should look not envisage > >the eye of the ishhTa to be closed. This manner of having seen the > >vision of the infusion of tenderness, doing dhyaana of the ishhTa in > >the heart, you should remain doing japa of the ishhTa mantra. From > >this, the image of the ishhTa will grow and provided that the mind > >gets strengthened and held with the ishhTa then in the end will stay > >in this condition. On the strength of this you should go across the > >ocean of samsaara." > >['Shri Shankaracharya UpadeshAmrita' kaNa 48 of 108] > > > >More: http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/gurudev.htm > > > It's important to remember that India being close to the equator does > not have the varying sunrise and sunset times nor Daylight Saving Time > that more northerly countries have. Hence many gurus will modify the > meditation after sunset to meditating in a dark room. > 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/
