Bhairitu wrote: > 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. > So, you're thinking that just because Swami Brahmananda Saraswati practiced TM and was a Sri Vidya adherent, that the origin of TM being a tantric form of meditation is a leap.
You're not even being logical! If Swami Brahmananda was a Sri Vidya practitioner who taught meditation on the bija mantra of Ista Devata, was a Shankara Dasanami whose guru was Swami Kirshnananda Saraswati of Sringeri, the headquarters of the Sri Vidya sect, and that the TM bija mantras are inscribed on the Sri Yantra at Puri, Jyotir, Kanchi and Sringeri, and mentioned in Shankara's 'Saunadaryalahari' and in the 'Tripura Upanishad'. But you're thinking it is a leap to suppose that TM is similar to Sri Vidya meditation practice? You need to get some smarts, Bharat2 - all the Shankaracharya Order members worship the Sri Yantra and pay homage to Tripurasundari. Sri Vidya is the most popular form of Indian tantra. All the Shankaracharyas have been Sri Vidya adhearents. So, you're thinking that instead of getting the bija mantras from Guru Dev, Marshy went all the way to south India on a bus to get them from a popular phrase book at a bookstall. Now that's a leap!
