--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: <snip> > Patanjali actually states "These experiences resulting > from samyama are obstacles to samadhi, but appear to be > attainments or powers to the worldly mind."
>From the perspective of MMY's teaching on how to practice the sutras, that's a technical instruction, not a warning. > Some Naths even consider chapter four a later forgery > inserted by those sneaky Buddhists. Correct, but that isn't the siddhis chapter, of course (as if Vaj didn't know!).