Richard J. Williams wrote: > 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. > > Sounds like you were learning stretching exercises not meditation. >> 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? > > Shaktipat is one thing as if often just given as a "blessing" when crowds assemble. In conjunction with teaching meditation it is a jumpstart for the meditation. I take it you didn't learn meditation from them. > 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! > > > Enjoy your prairie dog stew. Then take the garbage out.
