Resumo de Tm - An Aid To Christian Growth

TM is not a religion in the usual sense of the word, in that it does not depend on belief for its effects. We do not meditate on the mantra in TM so much as with the mantra. At the deepest level of transcending, even the mantra itself is left behind, transcended. Effort has no part in TM. Effort prevents the transcending. We just use the technique effortlessly, which allows mental activity to settle down to itself, allowing the obstacles to be removed that we have accumulated. Negative tendencies diminish as we become more open to God. By release of stress we imply not just the elimination of tensions and fatigue, but the complete purification of the system on all levels, body, mind and heart. The realisation of God?s presence, not as a comforting idea or a pious hope, but as a living fact of daily perception. Each person is, in his own way, an incarnation of God. A TM practitioner cannot be accused of worshipping Hindu gods unless he understands such figureheads to be of divine origin and intends his practice of the TM technique to be a from of worship. The mantras existed long before the deities. The puja is an act of gratitude for the knowledge that the teacher is about to transmit to the pupil being initiated. For many centuries the teaching given by lord Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita had become not only misunderstood but understood inexactly the opposite way intended. Right action came to be regarded as a means of gain nirvana (state of peace and happiness) whereas right action is in fact the result of this state of consciousness in freedom. This error of understanding has dominated Indian culture and has turned the principle of life upside down. A discovery of the early 1970s was that the effect of the mantra on TM subjects was to produce an immediate ordering of brain-wave patterns in both hemispheres of the brain. The subtle impulses of the mantra was able to break the feedback cycle of stress effects in the limbic system of the mid-brain. As the patients continued to meditate, the effect deepened and became more lasting. The brain wave patterns were orderly throughout the brain. This effect was not found with random sounds, or with other words used instead of the correct mantras. Maharishi lays so much stress on the sound value of the mantra, its vibratory effect, that without it, you just would not be practising TM. Yoga means joining, union. In transcendental consciousness the mind is fully alert but silent. Unity consciousness is a level of perception of reality, not a belief, a heresy or an illusory state. It is simply the normality of the fully realised human, made in God?s image. Sidhi techniques is not for the sake of powers, but for perfection, of growth in love and compassion. Indeed, there is no hope of gaining full use of yogic powers outside of full union with God. It is only the experience of transcendental consciousness that could be called a genuine spiritual experience. Eckhart is concerned with the nature of true knowledge, an like Maharishi that it must be based on direct experience of reality, rather than on ephemeral nature of mood or intellectual idea. Alternate work with meditation. They belong together, like night and day, or breathing out and breathing in. TM clearly is for the person living an active life in the world. To go to a field of greater happiness is the natural tendency of the mind. When the mind goes in the direction of the absolute bliss of the transcendental Being, it finds increasing charm at every step of its march. That is why the practice of transcendental meditation is not only simple but automatic. TM is not a religion. However, TM can provide practitioners with a religious experience which they never had as a Church member. Each of the TM-Sidhi techniques is designed to improve one specific channel of the mind, or of mind-body co-ordination. They enhance one?s ability to project thought and action from the level of pure consciousness. The practice of the Sidhi techniques stabilises our ability to function from this field of all possibilities, and therefore results in a rapid growth of enlightenment. These powers have been observed in people of different cultures an in different centuries. Strangely, one still finds among some Christians today a greater readiness to attribute them to ?the powers of the Evil One? than to understand them in purely human terms. The same Christians, however, are quick to recognise two sidhis which are becoming more frequently found today?the power of healing and the speaking in tongues?because these are two which were recognised in New Testament times. TM seems to be one of the most effective means at this point in time, and potentially one of the most powerful, for promoting the forward an future growth of an integrative and mature humanity. Enlightenment implies the ability to act without making mistakes, to be successful in undertakings without making problems for ourselves, our community or our environment. This means that one has the ability to function without violating the laws of nature, to act in such a way that one is always supported by nature.

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