The TM and TM-Sidhi Techniques

As reported in the TM-EX Newsletter, and from other sources.

Disclaimer - read this first.

All information here is provided for historical and research purposes only. Information and program details obtained from this website are not to be used for the purpose of meditation. Website contents are not furnished for the facilitation of, or use in, meditation, any kind of mental practice or exercise, or for any other purpose whatsoever. This website and its author do not and will not provide meditation instruction by any means.

Repetitious? Yes, because some people can't take a hint.

Provided for historical and research purposes only. That means, these mantras and other information about these programs are not here for you to use for "meditation," or use them for any other purpose.

In case it isn't already obvious to you, this website is that of a critic who no longer practices TM, and who is, depending on the weather, indifferent to TM, critical of TM, and openly laughing at the silliness of the TM programs. (You wasted your money on this crap? [Join the club.]) And, yeah, every so often I'm just a tiny, tiny bit angry at the fact that a very few people have gained wealth and power through the creation of this very elaborate, intricate, complicated mountain of bullshit, through which many people have wasted thousands of dollars and many hours if not lifetimes. But this website is done, it's been sitting here mostly unchanged for almost ten years, and frankly I now care very little about Transcendental Meditation and the organizations that teach it, except as a cultural and social phenomenon specific to a few decades of contemporary American history. Nor do I care what you think of me or this website.

The mantras and program details were provided to me by former TM teachers in the distant past. They are placed here just to show that all they are, are a few silly little syllables that are neither unique to the meditator nor were they selected by some elaborate secret method.

Now, if for some reason the above is unclear to you, and you're sitting there composing an e-mail to me about these mantras that starts out "I read the disclaimer but," well, don't. Go here and read some snippets of previous e-mails I've received, instead.

The TM technique is simple mental repetition of a "mantra" or word. The TM movement claims that only specific "words" can be used. They claim that the selection of words is based upon a secret formula. Court documents have shed some light on this "secret" process. It is nothing other than a set of words given out by age, and/or age and sex, depending on the teacher training course the TM teacher attended.

The TM-Sidhi program is nothing other than a set of sutras (words or phrases), mentally repeated every fifteen seconds after doing a twenty minute session of TM. Each sutra is repeated twice, with a 15 second pause in between each repetition.

The TM Mantra Tables

1961 1969-Male 1969-Female Fiuggi, 1972

Sex Mantra Age Mantra Age Mantra Age Mantra

MALE RAM 0-15 ING 0-15 IM 10-11 ING

FEMALE SHIRIRAM 15-30 AING 15-30 AIM 12-13 IM

30-45 SHRING 30-45 SHRIM 14-15 INGA

46 + SHIAM 46 + SHIAMA 16-17 IMA

18-19 AYING

20-21 AYIM

22-23 AYINGA

24-25 AYIMA

> 25 SHIRING

1976 1977 1978 October,1978 1987

Age Mantra Age Mantra Age Mantra Age Mantra Age Mantra

03-10 ENG 03-10 ING 0-11 ENG

10-12 EM 10-12 IN 10-12 ENG 10-12 ENG

12-14 ENGA 12-14 INGA 12-14 EM 12-14 EM 12-13 EM

14-16 EMA 14-16 INA 14-16 EMGA 14-16 ENGA 14-15 ENGA

16-18 AENG 16-18 AING 16-18 EMA 16-18 EMA 16-17 EMA

18-20 AEM 18-20 AIM 18-20 AENG 18-20 AING 18-19 AING

20-22 AENGA 20-22 AINGA 20-22 AEM 20-22 AIM 20-21 AIM

22-24 AEMA 22-24 AIMA 22-24 AENGA 22-24 AINGA 22-23 AINGA

24-26 AEMA 24-26 AIMA 24-25 AIMA

24-30 SHIRING 24-30 SHIRING 26-30 SHIRING 26-30 SHIRING 26-29 SHIRING

30-35 SHIRIM 30-35 SHIRIN 30-35 SHIRIM 30-35 SHIRIM 30-34 SHIRIM

35-40 HIRING 35-40 HIRING 35-40 HIRING 35-40 HIRING 35-39 HIRING

40-45 HIRIM 40-45 HIRIN 40-45 HIRIM 40-45 HIRIM 40-44 HIRIM

45-50 KIRING 45-50 KIRING 45-50 KIRING 45-50 KIRING 45-49 KIRING

50-55 KIRIM 50-55 KIRIN 50-55 KIRIM 50-55 KIRIM 50-54 KIRIM

55-60 SHIAM 55-60 SHIAM 55-60 SHYAM 55-60 SHIAM 55-59 SHAM

60 + SHIAMA 60 + SHIAMA 60 + SHYAMA 60 + SHIAMA 60 + SHAMA

Notes: The year at the top of each column indicates the year the teacher was trained.
"Age" is that of the initiate at the time of learning the technique.

See the TM Checking Notes and Steps to Initiation for details on the initiation and checking rituals.

Advanced Techniques

First:	AING NAMAH
Second:	SHRI AING NAMAH
Third:	SHRI AING NAMAH NAMAH
Fourth:	SHRI SHRI AING NAMAH NAMAH
Fifth:	SHRI SHRI AING AING NAMAH NAMAH
Sixth:	SHRI SHRI AING AING NAMAH NAMAH (Thought in the heart area)
Seventh:	Age of Enlightenment Technique: A system of putting attention on parts of the body, environment, world and outer space.

Notes: In most cases students were instructed to use their own, previously assigned mantra where AING appears above.

Translation of Advanced Technique Mantras

SHRI	"Oh most beautiful"
AING	"Hindu goddess Saraswati"
NAMAH	"I bow down"

Ayurveda Techniques

Primordial Sound - "AMRITA," used as a mantra

Psychophysiological Technique - Mantra is thought in heart area.

TM-Sidhi Techniques

The names of the sutras used in the TM-Sidhi program are:

Friendliness
Compassion
Happiness
Strength of an elephant
Bronchial tube
Inner light
Sun
Moon
Polestar
Trachea
Navel
Distinction between intellect and transcendence
Transcendence intuition
Transcendence finest hearing
Transcendence finest sight
Transcendence finest taste
Transcendence finest touch
Transcendence finest smell.

The "levitation" or "flying" technique, now known as "Yogic Flying," is used in the same way as all other sutras:

"Relationship of body and akasha - lightness of cotton fiber."

This phrase is mentally repeated every fifteen seconds after doing a twenty minute session of TM. Each sutra is mentally repeated twice (if time allows 4 times), with a 15 second pause in between each repetition.

After doing the flying sutra for 5-30 minutes, the instruction is to rest for 10-30 minutes and then read the Hindu Scriptures for 5 minutes.

An example of the readings (from the Ninth Mandala of Rig Veda):

Flow Soma, in a most sweet and exhilarating stream, effused for Indra to drink. The all-beholding destroyer of Rakshasas has stepped upon his gold-smitten birthplace, united with the wooden cask. Be the lavish giver of wealth, most bounteous, the destroyer of enemies; bestow on us the riches of the affluent. Come with food to the sacrifice of the mighty gods, and bring us strength and sustenance. To thee we come, O dropping (Soma); for thee only is this our worship day by day, our prayers are to thee, none other.

Disclaimer

Provided for historical and research purposes only. Go back up to the top of the page and read the full disclaimer, particularly if you're sitting there composing an e-mail to me about these mantras that starts out "I read the disclaimer but." Don't; go read it again instead.

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