Bhairitu wrote: > Most of everything in the meditation method of TM > can be found in a book or two published by Swami > Sivananda in the 1930s and that is just one example. > So, how come Swami Satchitananda or Swami Vishnudevananda couldn't teach any of their students how to effortlessly transcend? I took their course in Yoga back in the '70s and neither one of them said anything about transcending - I got the impression that they didn't have a clue and so that's why they taught concentration on the tip of their nose.
> The reason so many teachers give shaktipat as part > of the meditation instruction is so the student can > instantly transcend and it sets up the mind for > transcending with practicing the mantra. > Maybe so, but I got shaktiput from Swami Muktananda when he visited California a few days before Franklin Jones met him. Later Jones called himself The Master Da, but neither one of them seemed to have a clue about teaching anyone how to transcend using a TM technique. If they did, I guess they would have said something about it, would they not? At any rate, I guess it's now been settled: Vaj got "enlightened" at seeing a guy sitting with locked legs in a cafeteria in Honesburg, Barry got "zapped" by Fred Lentz at a light show in Los Angeles, and now you're telling us that you got enlightened by a "power touch" in downtown Oakland. Maybe you three got "touched" in the head and you lost you marbles in a trance-induction state. Who knows? So, you guys have been in and out of cults for most of your adult life, but I'm the one who eats prarie dog tacos? Eat your rice, then wash your bowl!
