Tom T comments intersperesed with Vaj questions below:
Tom T Writes:It is my experience and I know many other long term practitioners of the Sidhis, as taught by MMY, that Brahmin is and has been attained. The Sidhi practice had built into it the means and the end. Vaj responds As I pointed out here before: if you look at the authentic levitation practices which have lineages still in place, you can get an idea of what's missing. It's quite a lot. True levitation practice can take you right to the rainbow body. That's never going to happen unless the rumors of Purushites going off to learn darkness practice are true--and then only for the few. Tom T: The true reason for the sutras was to wake you up. The levitation gig was to give the ego a reason to continue the practice long enough to finish the wake up process, which was built into the practice.( see my prior post of about a year ago on the "Stealth Sutra" #52 in Alistair Shearer translation). Vaj continues: IMO and IME what many of us do is mistake gaining greater certainty of the View, great experiences of what enlightenment is for the end product. "Gaining certainty of the View" is very important, but it is not final realization. It's kinda like realizing that despite day or night or clouds, the sun is always shining. The sad part for those of us who make that error is we collect karma on real subtle levels and block complete and final realization. Tom T: Enlightenment is not an experience it is an understanding that comes when the intellect makes the final discrimination. The understanding does not happen in any mind. Self knows Self. The knowing of Self is so strong as to leave no doubt about what has transpired. That knowing imprints on the small self what is known to be beyond the ability of any mind to know. It is the expression of the lively absolute playing out in a physiology. Brahmin looks out through these eyes, talks through this mouth and animates this body. The cosmic Self comes to the forefront and the small self is content to run the relative life. Nothing in your life changes and yet everything is your changes. It is the ultimate Paradox, which is the clue as to the profundity of what has just transpired. Vaj writes: Have your friends in Brahman-consciousness had their experience verified by another Master? Tom T responds: Wondering what qualifies in your book as a Master. Again, as I have stated above it is not an experience, it is an understanding that needs no Master. The understanding is complete in an of itself. No Master needed as the knowledge in the understanding is complete in and of itself. Absolute self-verification which is the hallmark of this understanding, as it is beyond experience. Tom T 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/