Billy wrote: > *Adhikara* is a term used to describe the 'transference' > of the power of the 'guru' to the chela via the mantra. > > Anybody know the TM position on this....or? > Billy - According to Sri Vidya, the very instant you recieve the bija mantra from the guru you are in the enlightened state. That's because the bija mantra IS the Adhikara, the total sum of Vac, the Goddess of Speech. All you need to do after that is burn off your accumulated karma through tapas, inner heat.
That's the Secret of the Three Cities, Tripurasundari. > "If there is no illuminative state in the consciousness > of the giver, no transference can take place....there is > NO adhi-kara." > - Swami G. Kriyananda > "Word-sound, not own-sound, non-person to do it; body-heaps a-turning, common sound seen-to-wit, a fellow, That, not mine." - Tejas Wallah
