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The TM meditation is not exactly free, because in 2002 the TM movement increased the prices for the initiation and switched to a licensing system so that the initiators need sales.  Prices (2020) were about 500 dollars (now depending upon income) pro person with special conditions for families and students

* The TM meditation is actually just a mantra meditation, to which there are of course many alternatives, both in the form of similar meditations and in the form of other yoga techniques.

* Guru Dev Brahmanada Saraswati also taught a Aum-Meditation and a Nada-Meditation(only to accepted disciples).

* The Minet documents with the TM mantras - only for Information and therefore not recommended by me for exercise!
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In principle, everyone can put together a meditation from Sahastra mantras and other common mantras (e.g. after 'Meditation and Mantras') and possibly always listen to the puja on an MP3 player before the image of the Guru Dev (or one other personally personable guru) that is easy to find on the Internet. But even if he practices Yama-Niyama-Asana, he is by no means a accepted student of the gurudev , who alone decides on the acceptance, which also depends on personal karma.

However, the aspiration should be genuine (Yama-Niyama with introspection, etc.), otherwise it is an abuse - and of course everything at your own risk and then not just stop, not even if it is successful. Enlightenment is not a toy for children. It leads finally into higher worlds.

Another problem is the neglected effect of a selected mantra, because even a short bija mantra like AUM is composed of three sounds that have their specific effect. Mantras have a different effect at every level of consciousness.

The mantra shastra provides some information about this. The mantras of the matrikas serve, for example, to purify certain negative characteristics of the individual character. The Ashtottara Shatanamavali provides an abundance of mantras, as well as tantric scriptures such as the Todala Tantra. (Tantra means continuum or tissue - everything is somehow connected.)

A mantra initiation with an advanced pundit is of course valuable (VAK).

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A prerequisite for the white path of true Ashtanga yoga is, of course, the practice of Yama und Niyama instead of just using meditation for everyday life, which the Shankara Order also demands, which also follows the eight-step path of the Ashtanga-Yoga or the 7 steps of the Yogasutras.

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