TurquoiseB writes: Bingo! Also, there is an assumption some people (mainly Westerners) make that I personally feel is not warranted. Namely that because some people can do non-everyday things and perform the occasional siddhi that they're enlightened. Apples and oranges, in my book. Siddhis are just a skill; I don't see them as having a one-to-one relationship with any state of consciousness but the one required to perform the siddhi. Being able to levitate (true, hanging-in-mid-air leviation for some time) or go invisible or whatever says nothing about the person's enlightenment, merely that they have mastered that particular siddhi. Just my opinion, on the basis of having seen a great number of siddhis performed.
Tom T writes: Bingo: if you look at the Shearer translation of Patanjali sutras then you see that there is a progression of sidhis or techniques that ultimate lead to the final sidhi to be practiced sutra #52 which is, >From sanyama on moments and their succession, the finest discriminative knowledge is born. The prescribed result of this sidhi and only this sidhi is sutra #55, And when the translucent intellect is as pure as the Self, there is Enlightenment. All the other sidhis were given to get you to that final point. The practice of the others was to get this final one done. Amen. Tom T To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
