(See below for information on Guru Dev's successor, the current Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, his revered place in the "Holy Tradition," and his dark revelations about the Maharishi.) According to the very Vedic Law he touts, he commits sacrilege by teaching bija mantras - a sin he compounds by charging money for his teachings. Most likely he was never privy to whatever secret rites Swami Brahmananda Saraswati taught. After all, since he was not born a Brahman and therefore could never become a swami, the Maharishi was never a member of the "Holy Tradition" himself. Perhaps the Maharishi concocted the entire Puja - and he didn't want to share his embarrassment with the world.
So why were TM teachers sworn to lifetimes of secrecy? An Indian student might very well learn them as part of public school education. All the verses are readily available to anyone growing up in India's rich spiritual culture. If there's one thing the Maharishi's Puja isn't, it's secret. and for good measure added a short middle verse used by Sanskrit students for recitation practice - which invites Shiva and Shakti to take up residence in the performer's heart.Īs you'll see below, he simply snipped out the verses that might be most obviously offensive to the Western sensibility.selected verses from the gurustotra that every Indian who studies with a guru knows by heart,.The translation we were handed was thoroughly sanitized.Įven when we thought we were being told the esoteric truth, we were being lied to!īut the real shocker is that it appears the Maharishi cobbled together scraps of Sanskrit poetry to create a "Hindoo ceremony" to wow the Western crowd. We never had a chance to make an informed choice.
Fact is, all our hand-wringing was for nought. "Hey, this is supposed to be a Science - not a Religion! " But we made our rationalizations and carried on. Many, if not most, TM initiators had some trouble with the Puja translation the Maharishi gave us on Teacher Training. Or perhaps it is a secret ceremony passed down for generations by the " Holy Tradition" that the Maharishi claims to represent. Most TMers, even TM teachers, believe that the Puja was written by the Maharishi himself. Well, it's high time the other shoe dropped. ] īy now both TM critics and true believers have become accustomed to the public availability of the once "hyper-secret" TM Puja, or initiation ceremony, over the Web.
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