--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote:
> > Unfortunately cultivation of siddhis, esp, via samyama is the > > opposite of that, according to the Shankaracharya tradition and > > numerous others. > > But not necessarily according to Patanjali. And certainly not according to Madhusudana Saraswati, reformator of Shankaras order in the 16th century. He in his Gita Bashaya describes Samyama as the most effective means. And AFAIK S. is only described in PYS III pertaining to siddhis. So this whole stance against samyama being against the Shankara tradition is only hot air from someone who doesn't know.
