[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-03 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > > In the interests of clarity, I should probably have used the revised > > transliteration, lengthening the penultimate "a" and dropping the > > antiquated final "a" of "thahara", thus: > > > "OM Iswara thahaar tis, > > OM I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-02 Thread RoryGoff
* * Works for me! I was just using the Indra-Brahma-Rudra model here; but I too can easily see the black holes as yonis or Mother-matter-matrices of Unconditional Love. Vishnu for me can comfortably be the Matter-Mother, Shiva the Spirit-Father, and Brahma the Sol-Soul-child of either sex. Perha

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-02 Thread Mark Landau
Yes, thanks, I was referring to the earlier post and feel I better understand what you're trying to say. It is, I must say, somewhat convoluted, though that's what the universe is, always folding back in on itself, intellectual and masculine. Where's the feminine in all this? In the outer uni

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-02 Thread Mark Landau
Thanks, R, and thanks for explicating the LLL On Aug 2, 2011, at 2:16 PM, RoryGoff wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau wrote: > > > > Thanks for the "all kidding aside," if, indeed, it's literal. A lot of the > > humor I find in FFL goes completely over my head and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-02 Thread RoryGoff
My apologies -- that should be "Shiva's centrifugal energy-HA! of dissolution" -- which would be an internal view of Shiva exploding or dissolving outward from our central-point Brahma-singularity, in what would externally be the white-hole of Vishnu's centripetal establishment and loving, coale

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-02 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau wrote: > > On Aug 2, 2011, at 8:58 AM, RoryGoff wrote: > > As to your infrared-ultraviolet query, it appears Kundalini will generally > > throw out ALL of our old junk as she is housecleaning from basement to > > attic (and back); this can feel

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-02 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau wrote: > > Thanks for the "all kidding aside," if, indeed, it's literal. A lot of the > humor I find in FFL goes completely over my head and I find myself often at a > loss in winnowing the "serious" from the mirth. Haven't much found mantras

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-02 Thread Mark Landau
On Aug 2, 2011, at 8:58 AM, RoryGoff wrote: > As to your infrared-ultraviolet query, it appears Kundalini will generally > throw out ALL of our old junk as she is housecleaning from basement to attic > (and back); this can feel like a personal assault if we are attached to any > of it...and we u

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-02 Thread Mark Landau
Thanks for the "all kidding aside," if, indeed, it's literal. A lot of the humor I find in FFL goes completely over my head and I find myself often at a loss in winnowing the "serious" from the mirth. Haven't much found mantras of any kind useful for some time. Your experience is different?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-02 Thread Mark Landau
I wish Maui, but my guess would be India, maybe Allahabad. If I decide to retire there, I'll definitely give it a shot. On Aug 1, 2011, at 10:52 PM, RoryGoff wrote: > * * Yes, I suppose it's worth a shot, though I suppose if it actually worked > some bigots might make fun of one for being a li

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-02 Thread RoryGoff
(Reposting, now with new and improved mantra! And remember! Four out of five transcendentists recommend JAI JAI RAM for their patients who chant RAM!) > On 08/01/2011 02:48 PM, emptybill wrote: > > MMY advised against using "om" alone as a single mantra. > > * * Forgot to mention -- even Hollywoo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-02 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > MMY advised against using "om" alone as a single mantra. > * * Forgot to mention -- even Hollywood made (four) exposes on the dangers of "om" alone... All kidding aside -- Mark, in my travels to other realms I once came upon

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread RoryGoff
* * Yes, I suppose it's worth a shot, though I suppose if it actually worked some bigots might make fun of one for being a little light in the loafers, or at least a friend of Dorothy. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > I say give it a shot - how can you resist such a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread whynotnow7
Free airfare! Too bad Dorothy didn't come from Maui! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > > In the interests of clarity, I should probably have used the revised > > transliteration, lengthening the pe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread whynotnow7
I say give it a shot - how can you resist such a thing? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > > In the interests of clarity, I should probably have used the revised > > transliteration, lengthening the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > In the interests of clarity, I should probably have used the revised > transliteration, lengthening the penultimate "a" and dropping the antiquated > final "a" of "thahara", thus: > "OM Iswara thahaar tis, > OM Iswara thahaar tis

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "richardwillytexwilliams" wrote: > > RoryGoff: > > I was once given the mantra > > "OM Iswara thahara tis,"... > > > Mariska Hargitay! > * * Ha! In the interests of clarity, I should probably have used the revised transliteration, lengthening the penul

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
> > "OM Iswara thahara tis" > > emptybill: > This sounds Indonesian... > Pak Subud.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread richardwillytexwilliams
RoryGoff: > I was once given the mantra > "OM Iswara thahara tis,"... > Mariska Hargitay!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread shukra69
unless you are a Brahmin, thats absolute not Maharishi's teaching. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shukra69" wrote: > > not for women or householders > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > > > > MMY advised against using "om" alone as a single mantra. > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread shukra69
not for women or householders --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > MMY advised against using "om" alone as a single mantra. > > > > A former MIU Sankkya-Yoga scholar pointed out to me that it was safe to > use if combined as part of a larger mantra string of phonemes

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > (Alex, if you count each of my punning posts as two, I seriously > > will only be able to post 25 a week! I ask you homey, where is > > the heart in THAT?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread Bhairitu
Om by itself is useful to pacify vata (probably why it is added in the first place. By itself it would be an adjunct mantra that you would only use when vata is deranged though you can also use Ram for the same purpose. On 08/01/2011 02:48 PM, emptybill wrote: > MMY advised against using "om" al

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread emptybill
"OM Iswara thahara tis" This sounds Indonesian. I thought they were all Muslims. Except for the East Timors where they are Christians. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > Right. I was once given the mantra "OM Iswara thahara tis," and it works beautifully for me as a h

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > (Alex, if you count each of my punning posts as two, I seriously > will only be able to post 25 a week! I ask you homey, where is > the heart in THAT?) Heart? I'm sitting here in my SS uniform, butching it up, and throwing my weight

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread RoryGoff
Right. I was once given the mantra "OM Iswara thahara tis," and it works beautifully for me as a householder. (I find it really hits home if you sound it out in your heart a number of times quickly.) (Alex, if you count each of my punning posts as two, I seriously will only be able to post 25 a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread emptybill
MMY advised against using "om" alone as a single mantra. A former MIU Sankkya-Yoga scholar pointed out to me that it was safe to use if combined as part of a larger mantra string of phonemes. When I received a meditation mantra from SSRS it included "om" as part of the phoneme set. BTW, i

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > > > > From what I heard, M told the Mother D

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda wrote: > > Seems to be a never ending discussion... Indeed ! This is what Maharishi wrote about " OM", take it or leave it. "Om" is the Mantra for the Sanyasi. The Sanyasi repeats "Om" "Om" > "Om". It is given to him at the time of 'Sanyas - Di

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread merudanda
Seems to be a never ending discussion... thanks "wgm4u" for the reminder [:">] and MMY continues in accordance with Guru Dev's teaching : Do not live in a fool's paradise. "Select a path which will make you happier in your material life also. Do not live in a fool's paradise. Do not think that you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > > From what I heard, M told the Mother Divine course, that Om (Aum) was not > > > to be used as a mantra, as it's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > Om hon sku veta, som dom... (If she knew [sku veta!] as do those...) > Attempt at an "improved" version: Om hon skulle veta om dom, som talar om honom om och om igen... If she would know about them, who speak about him[sic!] again

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread Bhairitu
On 07/31/2011 08:15 PM, Robert wrote: > > From what I heard, M told the Mother Divine course, that Om (Aum) was not > > to be used as a mantra, as it's use would cause you to lose everything you > > had, to lose your wealth... > So, in any reading of the Vedic Literature which Mother Divine used,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > > From what I heard, M told the Mother Divine course, that Om (Aum) was not > > > to be us

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > From what I heard, M told the Mother Divine course, that Om (Aum) was not > > to be used as a mantra, as it's use would cause you to lose everything you > > had, to lose

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > From what I heard, M told the Mother Divine course, that Om (Aum) was not > > to be used as a mantra, as it's use would cause you to lose everything you > > had, to lose

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > From what I heard, M told the Mother Divine course, that Om (Aum) was not to > be used as a mantra, as it's use would cause you to lose everything you had, > to lose your wealth... > So, in any reading of the Vedic Literature which Mothe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > > FWIW, the first sound of Rgveda is 'a' (*short* a-sound): > > agnim iiLe purohitaM, > yajñasya devam RtvijaM > hotaaraM ratnadhaatamam. > > The first line contains the following vowels: > > a, i, ii (long i-sound), e, u, o ,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-08-01 Thread cardemaister
FWIW, the first sound of Rgveda is 'a' (*short* a-sound): agnim iiLe purohitaM, yajñasya devam RtvijaM hotaaraM ratnadhaatamam. The first line contains the following vowels: a, i, ii (long i-sound), e, u, o , i, a. Please, look at the devanaagarii alphabet here, especially 'VOWELS - FULL FORM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-07-31 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > "Try to chant in a soft voice." -Karunamayi > > > > > "Amma has advised us to chant "Om" before and after meditation because this > > helps to "fence" and hold the energy that is created during meditation. It > > is like putting wall

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-07-31 Thread Buck
"Before and after meditation chant the holy sound "Om" nine times. Please close your eyes at this point and keep them closed until meditation is completed." > > > "Try to chant in a soft voice." -Karunamayi > > > > > "Amma has advised us to chant "Om" before and after meditation because this

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-07-31 Thread Buck
"Try to chant in a soft voice." -Karunamayi > > "Amma has advised us to chant "Om" before and after meditation because this > helps to "fence" and hold the energy that is created during meditation. It > is like putting walls up on both side of a river. When the river grows due > to heavy rai

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-07-31 Thread seventhray1
The Oracle Speaketh! Is this a corallary to M's the Abathya Abetya?, (someone help me here, "the unmanifest sutra") "Amma has advised us to chant "Om" before and after meditation because this helps to "fence" and hold the energy that is created during meditation. It is like putting walls up on

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-07-31 Thread Buck
"Amma has advised us to chant "Om" before and after meditation because this helps to "fence" and hold the energy that is created during meditation. It is like putting walls up on both side of a river. When the river grows due to heavy rainfall, its waters will be contained and channeled instea

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-07-31 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > But as I say, I haven't spoken to him recently. You might > try asking him about it, but he's a little hard to get > hold of these days. I spoke to him last night and he ask me to tell you to stop the smart aleck comments or he was g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-07-31 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yah

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-07-30 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yah

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-07-30 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogro

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-07-30 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroup

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-07-30 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > > > > > > I guess OM is too Hindu, and t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-07-30 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > > > > I guess OM is too Hindu, and therefore Religious? AaUM... > > > > "Aum" is an alternate spelling i

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-07-30 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > > I guess OM is too Hindu, and therefore Religious? AaUM... > > "Aum" is an alternate spelling in our alphabet, BillyG. > The Wikipedia article uses the "Aum" spelli

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi stopped using OM and started using Aaaa.

2011-07-30 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > I guess OM is too Hindu, and therefore Religious? AaUM... "Aum" is an alternate spelling in our alphabet, BillyG. The Wikipedia article uses the "Aum" spelling throughout (the article is titled "Om," but it's a redirect from "Aum"):