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From: jk840@news.delphi.com (JK840@DELPHI.COM)
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental
Subject: FREE TM
Date: 1 Dec 1993 00:04:38 -0500
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Summary: Now stop paying the maharishi money..he has 3.5 BILLION
Keywords: TM, meditation, maharishi

I'm new to internet and I can't believe that you folks are even giving TM
any discussion.

Why would anyone pay maharishi $1000 for a word.  In his early writings he
said *any word, even the word mike can be taken...we find that any sound
can serve our purpose of training the mind to become sharp...we select
only the suitable mantras of personal gods.  Such mantras fetch to us the
grace of personal gods.  

If you want the grace of maharishi 's personal gods here is the technique.
1) Pick a mantra from the following list used by *some* TM teachers:
age   mantra
0-11  eng
12-13 em
14-15 enga
16-17 ema
18-19 ieng
20-21 iem
22-23 ienga
24-25 iema
26-29 shirim
30-34 shiring
35-39 kirim
40-44 kiring
45-49 hirim
50-54 hiring
55-54 hiring
55-59 sham
60-   shama

2) The technique is simple (it really is hypnosis): close your eyes - wait
about half a minuet, then start thinking the mantra over and over again.

At the end of meditation stop thining the mantra and wait about 2 minuets
before opening the eyes.

Some notes n correct meditation ( from the TM Checking notes)
*In this meditation, we do not concentrate, we do not try to say the
mantra clearly.  Mental repetition is not a clear pronunciation, it is
just a faint idea.
We don't try to make a rhythm of the mantra.  We don't try to control
thoughts.  If a thought comes, we do not try to push it out.  When we
become aware that we are not thinking  the mantra, then we quietly come
back to the mantra.
Very easily we think the mantra and if at any moment we feel that we are
forgetting it, we should not try to persist in repeating it or try to keep
on remembering it.  Only very easily we start and take it as it comes and
do not hold the mantra if it tends to slip away.  The mantra may change in
different ways.  It can  get faster or slower, louder or softer, clearer or
fainter.  Its pronunciation may change, lengthen or shorten or even may
appear to be distorted or it may not appear to change at all.  In every
case, ewe take it  as it comes, neither anticipating nor resiting change,
just simple innocence.


A word of warning:  Many studies (the movement has tried to suppress) have
found that approximately 40%  of the people who practice TM develop adverse
effects.  

If it helps  do it, if you have any problems S T O P.  Because TM is a
religion (The courts in the US have ruled it to be) for a TM teacher to
admit that TM is not good for you would be like a Christian  saying
belief in Jesus is not good for you, it will never happen.

Well you just saved $1000.

Most TM'ers get advanced techniques of TM about every 18 months.  They
also cost $1000.  The advanced techniques of TM are as follows.

1st  Aing Namah
2nd  Shri Aing Namah
3rd  Shri Aing Namah Namah
4th  Shri Shri Aing Namah Namah
5th  Shri Shri Aing Aing Namah Namah
6th  Shri Shri Aing Aing Namah Namah (The mantra is thought in the heart
area of the body).
Shri = oh most beautiful
Aing = Hindu goddess saraswati
Namah = I bow down

The TM-Sidhi program is posted under the topic (How much does the Siddhi's
cost). $4000

Happy trails or in TM speak JAI GURU DEV