[FairfieldLife] Re: Mantras, meditation and deities

2007-09-20 Thread Richard J. Williams
bill wrote: When someone tells us such meditation is hindu worship then they are simply misinformed, ignorant or ideologues. For clarity, here is a definition of mantra, according to Swami Ageananda Bharati: A mantra is a quasi-morpheme or a series of quasi-morphemes, or a series of mixed

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mantras, meditation and deities

2007-09-20 Thread billy jim
Herr Leo Fischer, the Austrian Sanskritist, was one of a handful of European academics to throw aside his scholastic robes and assume the robes of a Dashanami Swami. It was rather remarkable for his day but now, unfortunately, any California Hausfrau can do the same The text you quoted