--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 28, 2005, at 1:33 PM, johnlasher20002000 wrote: > > > There seems to be a difference between Maharishi's description of > > samyama and that of most other saints. > > Indeed. > > In samkhya one will want to cultivate the virtues which allows > spontaneous attainment siddhis to manifest as ones practices > progresses. These represent helpful qualities for ones practice, e.g. > the ability to make awareness incredibly small would help with the > discrimination of very subtle objects in awareness. > > With samyama, samyama is traditionally done in a particular sequence on > the body. This not only awakens shakti completely, but helps with the > skills necessary for samadhi. The yogis one can find in India who push > needles through their arm, etc. are all yogis who used these > accomplishments not for their practice, but for money. One of the major > side-effects of samyama on various parts of the body is that you can > paralyze various body parts. In the higher absorptions, this will aid > in total sense withdrawal and stillness of the body for long periods of > time. > > Samyama, still being a dualistic form of meditation, is still subject > to using a cause to manifest an effect. Thus when one uses a magical > formula, one exhausts a cause--accumulated virtues--and manifests a > particular form--the siddhi (e.g. "yogic hopping"). If the underlying > intent of the action is not for something greater than ego, it tends to > result in forms of spiritual narcissism and egocentricity. This no > doubt forms much of the basis for the almost universal insistence that > if we are interested in enlightenment, the yogic siddhis are best > avoided. Lacking a good motivation, the yogic siddhis tend to cultivate > a form of "narcissus" where we must endlessly discuss our experiences > rather than manifesting the state-beyond-discussion of meditative > experiences characteristic of the state of enlightenment. We exhaust > virtue and replace it with ego. Thus we fall into inferior rebirth as > we plant more causes characteristic of the seeds of those dimensions. A > brief rise causes a fall and the cycle of samsara puts us thru the wash > cycle again and again. The virtues necessary for the manifestation of > enlightenment disappear.
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