Guru Dev and Sri Vidya

"Bija mantras issued by TM are ''Sri Vidya'' bija mantras. To be fair,
I won't go into what they are, but if one listens to all TM mantras,
except for 2, they are 2 or 3 syllable, and this is a very important
component of the technique."

From: Billy Smith
Subject: Re: Guru Dev and "Sri Vidya"
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental
Date: 2003-04-22 13:20:33 PST

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> "Continued silence and inaction on Iran are shameful and cowardly,
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> because we refuse to come to grips with Iran. Many of these are our own
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>
> Hello? Can we get this show on the road, please?"
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> 'The War Against the Torture Masters'
> Will any Western leader proclaim the Iranian elections a fraud?
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>
> http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen200506081046.asp

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>> "The SF 180 directs the National Personnel Records Center to release
>> records, at the request of the documented veteran, and send them to
>> whomever he designates (usually himself) - period. What is the Navy
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>> recipient, on this specific SF 180 (not the Boston Globe, as Kranish
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>>We most assuredly are not jiving you: Howard Dean--scion of Park
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> "Having said that, it shouldn't be a surprise that lots of people
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> If I were a liberal, I'd be frustrated that so many Americans continue
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> so."
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> http://www.powerlineblog.com/
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>
We most assuredly are not jiving you: Howard Dean--scion of Park
Avenue, former governor of Vermont, a state that is 96.8% people of
pallor--is faulting Republicans for being white, even though he himself
is whiter than an albino polar bear with dandruff."

Did I say "heh?"

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Guru Dev's Sadhana
by "willytex" <willytex@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aug 15, 2003 at 02:13 AM

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From: "ptaahbr" <johnone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon Jul 29, 2002 7:39 pm
Subject: Re: Maharishi's TM mantras
Message 1028

I asked Brahmachari Sattyanand what the meaning of the addition to my
mantra in the advanced technique that he gave me was. He answered,
"The meaning, if I told you, would interfere with your results. Don't
go by the meaning, just go by the sound." I later looked up my mantra.
It indeed does have a semantic meaning. I also looked up the other
ones that Maharishi gave me to teach. They also have semantic
meanings.

John Manning

http://tinyurl.com/k332

Forum: alt.meditation.transcendental
Thread: Guru Dev's Sadhana
Subject: The everyday esoteric teachings of Sri Guru Dev.
Author: Willytex
Updated: 08/15/2003

It has been attested by two direct disciples that the sacred utterance of
Guru Dev was in the form of an "indestructible" seed mantra or bija.
Seed syllables are not words, according to Douglas Renfro Brooks, an
authority on Sri Vidya: "The Srividya, because it consists of
"indestructible seed" syllables (bijaksara) rather than words, transcends
such "mundane" considerations as semantic meaning" (95).

A a bija-only is not only esoteric but inherently superior."

Accordingly, the Gaayatri does not gain its esoteric significance unless
it is interpreted as the sacred utterance in the form of the bija.

By all accounts, Guru Dev was an adept, that is, a fully realized master,
a
holy man and a guru, if not a conservative one. He was also, toward the
latter part of his life, an active "jagadguru" or world teacher in the
line
of the Shankaracharyas. We have published accounts of Guru Dev's
activities from 1943 until 1953, at the time of Guru Dev's mahasamadhi.
The salient points of his latter life are well-known to a galaxy of
disciples.

There are a few direct disciples still living, and a number of former
disciples, each with their own point-of-view as to the everyday teachings
of Guru Dev. However, there is only one unbroken chain of disciplic
succession and that is from Guru Dev to his disciple Swami Shantanand,
hence to Vishnudevavand and then to Vasudevanand, the current
successor to Guru Dev in the Holy Tradition.

So much for the facts. But, the question remains - what, exactly, did Guru
Dev actually teach?

Because Guru Dev was of the renounced order, his sacred utterance would
have been the recitation of the Bija of Gaayatri, the most holy of phrases
in
the whole of the Rig Veda - a phrase that is incumbent on every Dasanami
Sannyasi, on a twice-daily basis.

You can read the full plain text here:
"The everyday esoteric teachings of Sri Guru Dev."
http://tinyurl.com/k3u8

This essay has been uploaded for easy reading:
http://willytex.home.texas.net/archives/gurudevji.htm

Works Cited:

"Auspicious Wisdom"
The texts and traditions of Srividya Sakta Tantricism in South India.
by Douglas Renfro Brooks
SUNY 1992
http://tinyurl.com/j4wg

From: L. B. Shriver
Subject: Brahmandaji on Gyan and Bhakti
Newsgroups: Yahoo! FairfieldLife
Date: Tue May 20, 2003 4:13 pm
Message 7884

Rocks Are Melting: The Everyday Teachings of Brahmanda
Saraswati

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/7884

Date: 2003-04-10 02:49:09 PST

Anyone able to elucidate any on what the Sri Vidya path as practiced
by Guru Dev was like, what kind of yoga it is?? Please and Thank-You!!
http://tinyurl.com/k3ue

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