. MMY basically said that unless you can perform the siddhis at any time, you can't really lay claim to being in Unity.
RESPONSE: He did indeed say this. He even said it on my Six Month Course (where I purportedly entered into a different state of consciousness). But the thing here is: when you are enlightened, self-willed, arbitrary, existential acts [I CHOOSE to do THIS]such as proving your are enlightened by performing a siddhiappear ludicrous and mechanically absurd. Why? Because the essence of enlightenment is the sense of having been unified with the totality of creation, the motion and perpetual flow of every event. You are dynamically embedded in the universe such that your capacity to isolate yourself and act irrespective of the intelligence conducting all activity in the universe, is renderedbelieve it or notimpossible. Therefore actions performed by the enlightened individual ARE EXPERIENCED to be dictated by an intelligence which has in a very primary sense taken over one's own intelligence and even one's individual decision-makingor put another way: one's individual intelligence submits to, unites with, and acquiesces in the will of the intelligence which seems to be running to whole show. Maharishi said what he said for whatever reason. He himself would never subject himself to this test, and he knew it. It was (in my estimation at least) the attempt to keep everyone focused on doing the Sidhis, since they had become, by his pronouncement, the very means of determining whether you were enlightened or not. Maharishi was never an innocent and guileless person capable of a single act of humility. He was a tremendous personality, but inside the spiritual realm of things, he was just as deceivedI know you're going to like THISas I was. Maharishi was an incredible human being, with absolutely the presence ontologically to wow all of us who were steeped in the experience of transcendence through TM. He did not appear so impressive to others who had not been baptized into his technique of meditation. In fact he was, scandalously and shockingly as it seems, virtually ignored by the rest of the world. But to come back to my point: "Maharishi said . . . etc etc etc", Maharishi had the authority, the power, the charisma to make ANYTHING HE SAID seem like it was coming from the deepest place in reality. But had anyone else said what you have reminded me of here, one would have to look at it critically, as in: what about the relationship between the free will of the individual and the providential design and execution of the universe? Every actionby anyonecould be argued to be DETERMINED by the intelligence that created Maharishi's enlightenment. Was Maharishi ever prepared to prove or demonstrate in any way that he was self-realized? Had someone turned this very standard upon him, what would have been his response? Some brilliantly enigmatic, humorous, playful, knowing ripostewhich would be calculated to kill of the potency of the very question. No, Maharishi was fibbing herealthough having said that: Sure, make this the test to determine whether anyone is "in Unity"? Go ahead. Thanks for the comment.
