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Well, anything is better than world
war three, even the 1,000 shocks.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 5:00 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mark
bulls**t was V....
--- In [email protected],
"Llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]...>
wrote:
> Anyone who has read Patanjali knows that he warns not to
become
caught up in the sidhis. I thought everyone knew that. I have been
knowing it since I read Vivekanandas commentary on the Yoga Sutras
when I was thirteen.
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Because it takes such a
long time in a degraded environment to
experience the full value of any of
the Siddhis (people have been
practicing the flying Siddhi since 1975 and
are still only hopping),
the warnings that you refer to, in the Srimad
Bhagavatam and other
texts, are not operative at the present time,
although they would
certainly apply in one of the "Golden Ages" ("Satyuga"
in Sanskrit)
in human history when fulfillment of the Siddhis happens
quickly
because people live life at much higher levels of intelligence and
happiness. One can practice the Siddhis as a means of purification
(Maharishi has said that practicing TM dissolves stress, but the
Siddhis smash stress) without worrying about being distracted from
the
path of gaining full awareness -- since MMY started teaching the
Siddhis
in the 70s, people have been doing them for nearly 30 years
without full
accomplishment of the flying sutra.
In any event, if you wish to
continue to enjoy your current style of
life, you should realize that the
publicity value of the flying sutra
alone far outweighs any concern about
the possible effect of being
distracted from seeking enlightenment by
being able to travel around
the universe at will (the ultimate _expression_
of the flying sutra).
The world is gearing up to fight all sorts of ugly
wars, atomic,
biological, chemical, cyber , and unless a lot of people
start TM now
and start living a little more intelligently, the world will
descend
into chaos and talk about living a life of love and devotion will
be
swept away by turmoil.
As soon as the TM movement presents
somebody levitating or flying on
the evening news, millions and millions
of people are going to start
TM, and transform the world from war,
poverty, disease and so on to a
much better quality of life.
It
also says in the Srimad Bhagavatam that in this disordered epoch
(called
the "Kaliyuga" in Sanskrit), the only thing one can do is to
chant "Hare
Krishna," and this is ordinarily the case in the Kaliyuga
(said to have
begun about 5100 years ago) -- life is so chaotic that
one can only shout
and pray to God, because the bearers of the divine
message about how to
live life in fullness by expanding awareness (to
the point where one could
move themselves or mountains through the
air at will) are either killed
outright or ignored or simply
misunderstood.
This failure to
listen to the message of full awareness has its
consequences. The story
goes that one day, feeling hungry, Jesus
Christ approached a fig tree, and
not finding any fruit on it, cursed
it and it withered away. It's
considered old-fashioned to see disease
and disaster as a message from
God, but I see the 1000 shocks that
natural flesh is heir to as a act of
kindness rather than a mere
pointless curse, to encourage people to give
up their pathetic and
stupid lives and enjoy the power of unlimited
intelligence that is
their birthright.
As Maharishi says in the
SBAL :
There is no greater kindness than the kindness of nature, which only
moves one way to bring fulfillment of evolution and life to all these
things in all their states of evolution, under all circumstances.
When
a man, because of some misdeeds, seems to be punished by nature
and
suffers for it, this also is the manifestation of the kindness
and
helpfulness of nature. If a child has smeared mud on himself, his
mother
will wipe the mud off. Even if the process of wiping off the
mud is not
liked by the child, it is good for him because the mud
could harm his
skin. The child, however, does not understand the
injury that the mud
would cause him and rebels against his mother's
efforts. ("How to make
full use of the almighty power of nature")
It is the greatness of
Maharishi's teacher, Guru Dev, that has
allowed mankind to help themselves
instead of just praying to God for
help. Since you are practicing TM and
not just chanting "Hare
Krishna" as advised by the Bhagavatam, I think you
should also
realize that the scriptural warnings about the Siddhis are not
operative now. There is now a window of opportunity in the sorry
history of human society over the last 5000 years, a window created
by
Guru Dev, who enabled Maharishi to bring knowledge of an effective
meditation technique to the world.
Bob Brigante
http://geocities.com/bbrigante/spiritual.html
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