Bhairitu wrote: > Perhaps you should go on a pilgrimage to southern > India and locate the text that TM was supposedly > derived from? > That would be in Karnataka, the home of the Sri Vidya, whose main text is the Saundaryalahari composed by Shankaracharya. All the exponents of the Shankaracharya worship the Sri Chakra, which was placed on the mandir at Sringeri by Shankara himself. According to Swami Brahmanand Saraswati we shoudl meditate on the bija mantra of the Istadevata of the Saraswati sampradaya. That would be Tripurasundari, the Secret of the Three Cities. The Saundaryalahari contains the sixteen bija mantras used in TM practice. The TM bija mantras are enscribed on the Sri Chakra. In addition to the Saundarya, Shankara composed the Anandalahari and Atmabodha for our understanding. But you don't have to go to southern India to find the Saunadarya or the Atmabodha - almost any good public library would have them available in translation.
Other titles of interest: 'The Glorius Presence' A Study of the Vedanta Philosophy and Its Relation to Modern Thought, Including a New Translation of Shankara's 'Ode to the South-Facing Form' By Ernest Wood Rider & Co., 1952
