---I've read the bios of numerous Roman Catholic Saints and can't find much, if anything, close to Patanjali (except in a very few, say Saints Theresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross). However, those 2 Saints were among the most famous of the actual levitators (seen on many occasion hovering in the air for long periods of time in an apparent state of Ecstasy. Haven't seen that yet among the TMO people. Could they be missing some steps from Patanjaji, or perhaps some other ingredient?
Here are some statements from a compiled source for the letters of Saint Padre Pio: [nope!...no Patanjali here]. Even when wracked physically, mentally, and spiritually by Satan, sometimes on a daily basis, he avoided blaming God. In fact, he praised and thanked God for delivering him from the powers of the devil. This faith in the Father's protection is one of the most powerful--and sometimes most colourful--parts of the book: "Bluebeard [Satan] follows, with divine permission, to wage war against me; but God is with me." And more explicit: "I complained to my Guardian Angel about this, who, after having preached a nice little homily to me, added, 'Give thanks to Jesus, that he treats you as one chosen to follow him closely up the steep slope of Calvary.'" Perhaps most strongly is the Saint's articulation of his suffering for God. He believed that Jesus was close to those who suffer, and so he too wanted tribulation, writing without bitterness that "my life is becoming a cruel martyrdom." He saw his trials through Christ's agony, which, the Saint believed, continued up to the present day because of the grievous sins of humans. Saint Pio shared in this pain. Yet for this, he felt only gratitude towards Jesus. This sense of human sin and the harm that it does to the soul and to one's relationship with God is a constant theme in Saint Pio's letters. The Saint was so readily capable of sharing in Christ's anguish because of his great, unfailing hope that God would come to his aid: "Do you not see that I have no more strength to fight, that all my vigour is gone? ... Oh my God, you who know the extreme bitterness of my spirit, do not delay in coming to my aid. You alone can and must draw me out of this prison of death." These innocent, charming, and poetic selections testify to the way that God so deeply touched Saint Padre Pio. In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" <dhamiltony...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > I see this whole compulsion of Maharishi's to > > "reinterpret" the world's religions and "recast" > > them in terms of TM as an extension of Hinduism > > and its original co-opting of the Buddha. Same > > thing exactly...if you can find some way to claim > > that the original competing tradition was "really" > > teaching the same thing that the TMO teaches, but > > in a "lesser," less-fully-understood way, you > > simultaneously 1) put that other tradition down, > > and 2) co-opt it to some extent so that your own > > students won't be tempted to check it out and thus > > "stray from the highest path." And, in so doing, > > take their money somewhere else (or keep it, > > because many of these other traditions teach for > > free). > > > > yeah, corrupted in ego of packaging and marketing; said strictly as that is > said, u r wrongish otherwise. > More Largely is Just that Science is repeatable in nature. There is justice > in that. > > Really it is all Patanjali. All renders down on Patanjali. buddhistic, > hinduistic, gnostic mystical x-ian, judeoistic, proly somewhere in > mohammadism. Patanjali just happens to more clearly say it in writing. Is > all one when it works. > > !Jai Patanjali! > > -D in FF >
