--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 19, 2008, at 2:12 PM, netineti3 wrote: > > > From my view, nothing we were told has any basis of scriptural > > foundation. Little is mentioned in this forum of those shastras. > > Most of the opinions given are just musings of the egoistic mind and > > have no basis in what is Truth. > > > > Do people seek siddhis for power? > > If so, this is a quality of Asuras, demons. > > They don't bring enlightenment according to Patanjali. > > Exactly--and this is also an almost unanimous declaration from yogic > texts. In fact, the primary text on Enlightenment up to this very day > in the Shank. tradition says this as well--which it also adds that one > will never attain even CC if one uses the samyama siddhi formulae, > esp. yogic flying! So clearly this has no basis in the tradition of > enlightenment coming from Shankara.
That's really weird, *if* Vyaasa, the famous commentator of Yoga-suutras is Krishna Dvaipaayana aka Baadaraayana, the "writer" of vedaanta-suutras (aka brahma-suutras, shaariiraka- suutras.)
