--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On May 23, 2007, at 11:49 AM, John Davis wrote: > > > The concept/fact of the TM mantras being older than the Hindu > > religion, and > > so also older than the gods named after them, which might then be > > seen as > > personalisations of a pre-existing sound, makes a good deal of > > sense to me. > > > Unfortunately, it is untrue. The mantras all come from ancient > tantric traditions and are related to the gods they are associated > with up to this day. TM mantras are not vedic, they are tantric. Be > rather leery of anyone who tells you otherwise. There's a common myth > in the TMO that TM mantras are "Vedic" (or I've even heard people > claim they were from the Rig Veda!). It's simply untrue. > > Good luck! > Hi John, The point can be made that vibration brings creation into being- certainly works with music! So if a sound is associated with a particular God, it follows that the primary characteristics of that sound precede as you say the personalization of that sound. The personalization of the sound is secondary, being associated with the 'discovery' of the God that it creates.
Whether someone catalogues these sounds and dispenses them from a particular tradition, and what that tradition might be is then tertiary to the sound's origin, and the creation emanating from it. So whether the mantras are vedic or tantric doesn't matter at all- just that they work, and as you know they do work. I wish you the best of fortune with your ongoing practice of TM. :-)
