Transcendental Meditation & the Tired Mind – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Over-Priced Mantras TM
www.siddhayatan.org http Living Enlightened Master, Acharya Shree Yogeesh says that the true transcendental meditation (TM) means to dissolve the mind and thoughts. Acharya Shree Yogeesh says that many people got trapped under a popular teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who became very rich by selling mantras, promising them they would meditate somehow. By giving such mantras, the mind would become tired with over-repeating, therefore requiring the meditator to ask for a new mantra, which in …
this guy is clueless about TM, about transcending, and about the effects of the TM technique. he’s also completely wrong. he is totally unqualified to be talking about meditation. what is his problem?
I agree, monkey v.
if he knew anything about transcendental meditation, then he would know that it is not ‘mantra meditation’, rather it is ‘TRANSCEND-your-mantra’ meditation.
Correct mantra is pivotal to the practice, as is correct technique, and then, as millions will testify, the mind will transcend (step beyond)the mantra and other thoughts to experience Being.
as regards maharishi mahesh ‘selling’ mantras, when people make a contribution for learning meditation they are simply subsidising the availability of a teacher. The mantras are not for sale, but the teacher’s availability, surely, should be subsidised, not by the teacher himself, but by the student who expects their teacher (first) to have invested adequate time in having developed the expertise to teach, and who expects the teacher (second) to be available to give expert instruction (rather than, say, the teacher having to open a hardware store in kansas in order to make ends meet).
I am afraid, monkey v, that this is the age of unclear and incomplete thinking.
an age ideal and ripe for the mass practise of meditation as taught by maharishi maheshi yogi in the way he received it from his divine teacher, swami brahmanand saraswati.