--- In [email protected], "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >MMY's > > biggest mistake was, is, and always will be, the Siddhi's program! > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" wrote: > > > > Unless you happen to find the Siddhis program of personal use, of > course... > > Yeah, on my siddhi course w/MMY at the end there was this clamouring > for people to receive advanced TM techniques from MMY before they > went home. He laughed derisively at this and said, "i have just > given you the key to the universe and you want advanced techniques?" > > On that course he gave these great lectures about the patanjali Yoga > Sutras and the siddhis. Really great understanding about how you do > the siddhis in form. In the sequence of things i am glad he came > along with this back then. > You can use the form of Patanjali to all kinds of good end with any > of the maha vedic mantras or just simple spiritual practice. The > same kind of patanjalaic description for how you can meditate is > taught with Karunamayi also. It is not like Patanjali is tradmarked > or MMY taught anything new. He definitely packaged it. > > As for the long decline, it was very much in his hands as he > dismantled the teaching organization back in 1977 that had become so > effective to that point. He (MMY) made the decision to supplant the > whole thing with the chaos of the returning vedic atoms from those > early TM-siddhi 'governor training' courses (mid & late 70's). It > was a monumental decision which was very human and all his. I was > there and watched him do it. It was pretty clearly a whim that was > a bad administrative choice of his. Yes, he traded the old TMorg as > a teaching org. for a series of cash cows of what then became the > intervening years of the TMorg. From then it really became about > real estate and profit-centers for him. The great teacher? > > Jai Guru Dev, -Doug
Seems right to me, I don't question his intentions, just his administrative ability. BTW, I doubt most Siddhas do samyama from the level of the transcendent, far from it! IMHO. Billyg. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
