Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Mantra and Japa

2013-11-06 Thread Richard Williams
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:48 AM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: The Lectures of Professor Troll: “Before we get started …” “Are we agreed so far? …” “So, let's review what we know …” Same with “Swami Agehananda Bharati” (aka Leopold Fischer) “Bharati is the particular *name* of one

[FairfieldLife] RE: All About Mantra and Japa

2013-11-03 Thread emptybill
The Lectures of Professor Troll: “Before we get started …” “Are we agreed so far? …” “So, let's review what we know …” Same with “Swami Agehananda Bharati” (aka Leopold Fischer) “Bharati is the particular name of one single monastic order – one out of ten (dasanami). It is not a

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Mantra and Japa

2013-11-03 Thread Richard J. Williams
The word 'mantra' is an Indian term, from Sanskrit man, 'to think', and tra, 'a tool'. So, mantra means in Sanskrit 'a tool for thinking'. According to Brooks, the Srividya, because it consists of indestructible seed syllables (bijaksara) rather than words, transcends such mundane

[FairfieldLife] Re: All About Mantra and Japa

2013-11-02 Thread Richard Williams
In TM you get one bija mantra to meditate on. So, where does this bija mantra come from? We do not know where or how the bija mantras came to be formed, or how they ones used in TM came to be used - we can only speculate. The origin of the TM bija mantras is not explained by Larry Domash in big