First of all, the list on the other post is not a list of symptoms of being on the path, it is a partial list of symptoms that the kundalini may have awoken as people go searching the net trying to find out what happened to them, as they had a spontaneous kundalini awakening and no one including all the Dr's know what is going on. Some of the things may also be signposts along the way for someone who is in the midst of their journey- these signposts can occur to people in any path including TM.
Signposts such as seeing blue light, seeing or hearing saints, etc. Without proper guidance, one with these sign posts can be quite deluded in their journey. Maybe they think it is such a significant thing and therefore they are so evolved, but in actuality, it is something that can happen as a matter of course. Psychics, healers- this is just something that people have but it has nothing to do with enlightenment and more often than not the people with these abilities have an inbalanced life, acording to Swami G. And by the way, Swami G is not psychic, and is a Siddha Guru. That means one that has arisen abouve the siddhis. The greatest siddhi of them all is to know the absolute, acording to G ( can also refer to Swami G as G) Regarding the path, it is not restrictive but rather freeing. Restrictive is all the dogma, and that isn't here. Swami G eats meat and it has no effect on the consciousness. If you look though the sat sang recordings in www.abide-in-self.com, maybe it is sat sang number 14 or 17 where Swami G talks all about it. If one takes full diksha, then there is a diksha name. there is also mantra diksha which is not fully engageing in the path as yet, then you dont get a new name. In taking sanyas diksha, the name will change yet again. Responding to the comments in the other post, where the poster went off on a commentary about the list- I am the one that came to this site, not Swami G, she is not a member here. I presented some comments from here for which she gave her comments, or she gave her comments- whatever. I am repeating myself to say that Swami G is not chasing after disciples, there are few here as I have told you. If anything, if a Guru is going to chase after their disciples, then it would be highly recomemded to tell them they are great, they will get a cosmic ego, they will have better sex, they will be able to be king. By telling people the direct truth, I dont think this is going to attract disciples. IN the TM world, you get a cosmic mind and ego and you are saving the world. Over here, you loose your mind and ego, and world will be what it will be- but if you loose all the coverings, which is baggage- then you are really happy and only then in Realized state can you impact the world significantly by virtue of existence. Swami G's interest is to take sincere disciples to Realization as fast as possible. That is what she is comissioned to do. You dont hear about saving the world. She responded to this and said the world will be what it will be- This messai complex to save the world will also have to be transcended at some point. I have some commentary about all that from Swami G which is most interesting and I will try to dig it up. Tanmay --- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Ron" <sidha7001@> wrote: > > > > I picked my Diksha name out of a bowl and it came out to be > > Tanmay > > Does Swami G require or prefer that her students/followers/devotees > take and use a Diksha name? Or, would she be cool with folks who just > want to stick with their regular names? > > Also, does she require or prefer that her students/followers/devotees > eat a vegetarian diet? >
