--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Card, with all due respect, a more relevant question > > might be, "Why would anyone *want* siddhis?" > > Well, according to Maadhava VidyaaraNya's Shankara-dig- > vijaya, the Great Shankara himself utilized "cittasya > para-shariiraaveshaH" (entering another's body, III 39) > to get "kaama-suutric" knowledge (in the body of a > recently deceased king, "abusing" his harem). > > I seem to recall Shankara also flew yogicly with his pupils > over some mountains to a near-by village. But I'm not absolutely > sure about that.
So you're saying that the reason you would want to learn to perform siddhis is that a dead person who we are told wrote some stuff claimed that he performed them. Cool, I guess. I would have thought that you might have more well- thought out reasons for wanting to learn them.
