BillyG. wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Perhaps you should go on a pilgrimage to southern India and locate the
>> text that TM was supposedly derived from?
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> The mantras were discovered by the rishis (seers), their true source
> is found self existing in the subtle body or the astral spine, each
> chakra (wheel or vortice of prana) have certain unique vibrations,
> supposedly
> this is where the mantras have originated. All true mantras lead to
> Brahmanandam....
What I'm talking about is that there are sects that practiced using the
bij aksharas to meditate on. Swami Devananda refers to them in his book
on meditation. The book by the early TM teacher who spent time with MMY
in India believes he picked up these techniques from a priest in
southern India and possibly from some texts found in a temple. It might
not take much to track them down. How they were "cognized" is beside
the point and unverifiable anyway. I also don't think that TM is Sri
Vidya just because Swami Brahmananda Saraswati practiced it. That might
be a little bit of a leap.
