very helpful knowledge. Thank you for this distillation and key. --- In [email protected], "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
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