--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" jstein@ > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > . [...] > > > > > > Samyama's good side is that it helps fine-tune and hone our > ability > > > to discriminate finer aspects of awareness, it's downside is > that if > > > it is used for siddhis (e.g. yogic flying) we become more > outward, > > > more materialistic and fooled by the power of our own delusions > (maya- > > > shakti). So the sages say. Thus a method is given which does > not > > > necessitate using samyama and thus avoids it's pitfalls. > > > > Right, that's why Patanjali titled his work "How to > > Become More Outward and Materialistic and Fooled by > > the Power of Your Own Delusions." > > > > Well, that's what he *should* have called it. That > > he called it "How to Know God" instead proves he was > > fooled by the power of his own delusions. > > > > What "sages," where? > > > C'mon Judy, admit it, "Vaj" knows waay more than Maharishi and > Patanjali, combined!! The only reasons he deigns to participate here > is in hope of being recognized as the great seer that he is. >
The problem is, Jim, that unless someone(s) here has a personal relationship with Maharishi we (they) don't know what he knows. Just taking what has come out here about Maharishi it's obvious that we only know what he presents publically. Teachers, governors, re or decertified, have little relationship with Maharishi. What we do have a peculiar kind of PR. There is so much hidden in the TMO, that unless we know from our own experience, we're just guessing... JohnY
