---to a certain extent, your're right, Vaj; except that there's an infinite variation in the possible Siddhis, and then one would have to judge which of them is a criterion: certainly, being able to communicate with lobsters would be on top of the list, for sure! At the very least, Siddhis separate the men/women from the novices; thus, Guru Dev is a quantum leap beyond MMY although I dispute that there's some difference in the nature of Enlightenment since it's based on pure Consciousness and there's only one possibility there, vs an infinite variety of Siddhis to choose from.
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jul 25, 2007, at 7:48 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: > > > > So if he's going by what Vaj says in this case, > > > I guess it's just another one of those > > > contradictions that show how spiritually > > > advanced he is. > > > > How did Self-Realization come to be associated with the ability to > > perform spiritual parlor tricks and feats of esoteric duality? > > > It's just a natural byproduct of real union, thus the association. > Realization is invariably accompanied by mundane siddhi, although > mundane siddhi is not always a sign of realization. How could we > pretend to really be operating from "the unified field" and not > naturally have some manifestation of that? >
