RE: () Prayer Beads

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As far as Krishnamurti's and Dr. R. P. Kaushik's views on mantras go, I

believe

their views to be limited and not applicable to everyone or even useful for

everyone. Perhaps it is an example of how those who attempt to defy dogma

and

preach that "Truth is a Pathless Land" in various ways risk becoming

dogmatic

themselves. Kaushik's view that mantras can act like drugs is indeed correct

but

again only partly so and to leave it at that is misleading. Pranayama and

running can also have profound effects on the mind and body similar to

drugs.

Still, people find them useful in one way or another.

 

Various techniques and methods and spiritual practices are indication of the

 

desire for freedom and are meant to create a certain mental atmosphere in

which

the operation of grace might become possible. Different people are attracted

to

a variety of practices based on their physical and psychological makeup.

 

I wonder if either Krishnamurti or Kaushik ever seriously practiced mantra

meditation fully to completion.

 

The Truth is that Truth is indeed a Pathless Land.

 

Love to all

Harsha

 

Thank you, Harsha, for this response in defense of the use of mantra. For

18

years of daily meditation practice using mantra , I considered it a mild

and

fairly benign tool for achieving transcendence (not a hypnotic state).

After

that time, when grace descended, as it were, the power of the use of mantra

in

meditation and other related spiritual practices became much more

physically,

spiritually and in all other ways directly felt and experienced. (I have

had to

restrain myself from becoming evangelical about it! ) One of the

excellent

teachers I have had in the use of mantra is our Linda Callanan, who is very

well-versed in a wide range of mantras and their use.

 

Love,

 

Jill