--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jul 19, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > > wrote: > >>> > >> It is a marketing term based on the name of the sutra. > > > > Do the Yoga Sutras actually call it flying? Because if that's the > > case, Dave should complain about Patanjali, not the TMO. > > > Well that's only partly the case. The fact is, in the Patanjali oral > and written tradition, which does still exist, it's stated that there > are actually *two* sutras for true "flying"/hovering--and in the TM- > Sidhi formulae you are only given *one*. In addition, there are other > practices and techniques that must be mastered. One is bringing a > certain form of prana into the head/skull. Unfortunately this is the > same prana that underlies thought processes. Screw this technique up > and you go, well, insane. > > This has all been verified by other TM-Sidhi practitioners from the > successor of Tat Whale Baba, who also indicated the other missing > elements in the TM-Sidhi program. They are very significant IMO. > > The hopping artifact is well known in yogic literature as the > bhuchari siddhi--the siddhi of hopping like a frog. It happens when > prana kundalini is stimulated at the level of the root (muladhara) > chakra....It can be achieved by mere pranayama. It's no big deal. > > But it *is* a big sell, or used to be. >
Heh. Yogananda claims that levitation itself can be obtained by "mere pranayama." MMY claims that "mere pranayama" can bring one to enlightenment. What's so mere about it? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/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/
