User:Vassyana/ToK (Descriptions)
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[edit] Descriptions
According to the Dutch religious scholar and Christian minister Reender Kranenborg and the American religious scholar J. Gordon Melton, these techniques were originally were called "Light", "Sound", "Name" or "Word" and "Nectar" but Maharaji now refers to them as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th techniques. [1][2][3] Maharaji asks practitioners to promise "not to reveal these techniques to anyone", but does not encourage censorship, saying "[l]et other people go through their own journey".[4]
Kranenbord and Melton claim these techniques are secret and provide a description of them in their writing, based upon reports they received from others. "Light" involves careful pressure on the eyes, seeking to open the "third eye" after a long period of training and practice. This is comparable to similar Tantric practices. "Sound" involves positioning the hands over the ears and temples, with the goal of hearing the "heavenly music". This is reported to be related to sabda-brahman meditation. "Name", or "Word", employs mantras, seeking to connect the practioner with the divine. "Nectar" includes tongue positioning, eventually leading the student to taste the "nectar of life". It is said to use yoga breathing methods.[2][3]
[edit] Comment by Andries
- 1."Kranenbord and Melton claim these techniques are secret"
- ad 1. change "Kranenborg and Melton assert these techniques are secret" See Wikipedia:words to avoid.
- 2. "based upon reports they received from others."
- ad. 2 Redundant, because this is true for everybody.
- 3. "but does not encourage censorship,"
- ad 3. This is doubtful and unsourced
Andries 18:13, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
- 1. We could use the neutral form ""Kranenbord and Melton describe these techniques as being secret";
- 2. They where not taught the techniques, so it is OK to say that;
- 3. That is a straight and harmless deduction from the source provided.
≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 18:23, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
- ad 2. I do not know. Do you have a source for that?
- ad 3. Please Jossi, you alway preach about Wikipedia policies and guidelines, such as no free interpretation of sources and such a defense here make such preaching empty. Andries 18:30, 15 March 2007 (UTC)