On Jun 6, 2011, at 9:38 PM, sparaig wrote: > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: >> >> It kind of shows how un-seriously Maharishi took this information that it >> would be up to ME to cough up this furball! > [...] >> And given that the so called enlightened have so totally NOT lived up to the >> hype of what these states mean according to Maharishi, a more humble >> approach would be appropriate. > > Er, according to MMY, if one is actually in Unity Consciousness, one can > perform any and all of the sidhis at any time. I don't know that he or anyone > else (at least anyone within the TMO still) ever claimed that for themslves.
As has been pointed out to you previously on numerous occasions, it is yoga-darshana that is enamoured with siddhis. The state of consciousness associated with yoga-darshana in Maharishi Vedic "science" is turiyatita, "Cosmic Consciousness" not UC. So you're left with, really, two options: 1. You heard it wrong and/or remembered it wrong. 2. The Maharishi got it wrong an therefore represents a departure, an impurity within these awakening traditions. It's almost as if you're locked into some OCD definition welded onto your brain, and you can't let go, lest YOU bring some imagined impurity into the tradition. The UC view of Vedanta, esp. in the Shank. tradition, not only avoids siddhis, it considers them antithetical to the evolution of consciousness.
