--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <no_re...@...> wrote: > > > > > > Well, vajranaatha-s seem to have realized they have > extremely little chances to find a good comment on YS > that supports their view of practising the siddhis. > > Actually, there seems to be at least one suutra that > emphasizes the importance of not becoming attached to > the occult powers, namely IV 29: > > prasaMkhyaane 'py akusiidasya sarvathaa viveka-khyaater > dharma-meghaH samaadhiH. > > So, one has to remain 'akusiida' even in 'prasaMkhyaana', > which means that one "has" 'viveka-khyaati' in every way > (sarvathaa). > > It doesn't seem possible to know whether one is 'akusiida' > e.g. towards the occult powers unless on can "master" them, > now does it?!
As a rather simple analogy, one can't know whether one is potential alcoholic before one drinks some, or stuff? > > So, siddhi techniques are somewhat paradoxical: to "attain" > samaadhi (III 3) one needs to practice them (saMyama) but for the highest > state of samaadhi (dharma-megha), one has to treat them > as any other everyday skill: *yogastaH* kuru karmaaNi! >
