--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Enlightenment Does Not Mean Being Psychic > > by John Houseman > > [This is the third essay on Enlightenment by John Houseman. His first > essay can be seen by clicking here, and his second by clicking here. > John has written two more essays which will follow, and he will be > avilable for personal enlightenment coaching and counseling when our > EnlightenMentor program debuts in the next few weeks.] > > > "Heaps of rubbish." Swami Ramakrishna, on psychic powers > > > "They are obstacles to samadhi." Patanjali, on psychic powers
The original goes like this: te samaadhaav upasargaa(H) -- without sandhi (te; samaadhau; upasargaaH...) I wonder why Patañjali uses the locative case "samaadhau" (in samaadhi?). Somehow I feel that if siddhis were obstacles *to* samaadhi, dative case should be used: te; samaadhaye; upasargaaH But I'm not at all sure about that. It might be that the dative case is not used like that at all.
