Yeah, it could be all the sages of Hinduism are wrong and you're
right! Siddhis don't really cause you to acquire vyutthAna (SCI-
speak: outward-stroke) samskaras, they're actually really good for
you! You'll attain the Body of Mud!
Wake up Card, you living in a dream if you need to rationalize this
badly. Legit. sages not only know that samyama cultivation of siddhis
damages the human nervous system in a way that prevents awakening,
they knew what it specifically does to the nervous system.
Oh and Scum-dog Millionaire found out he couldn't trademark or
copyright "siddhi", so he simply perverted the spelling and
copyrighted his perversion! Ain't that holy!
What a pure tradition, huh?
On Oct 12, 2011, at 3:00 AM, cardemaister wrote:
As everybody even down in Texas knows, Patañjali himself
doesn't seem to call the results of various saMyama_s in
the third book of YS siddhi_s but rather vibhuuti_s, because
the title of that book is vibhuuti-paada.
The only time the word siddhi is used in the 3rd book
is the "infamous":
te samaadhaav upasargaa vyutthaane siddhayaH (nominative plural
from 'siddhiH').
Many modern Indian gurus, and stuff, don't know Sanskrit very
well, so they seem to read that suutra in a way that in
their petty minds changes the predicative at the end (siddhayaH)
to an apposition, or perhaps even the subject, in that suutra.
The real subject of that sentence, of course, is the pronoun
'te' that per e.g. Vyaasa and Bhojadeva refers *only* to
the "divine" senses (TM: finest hearing, etc.) mentioned in the
previous suutra!
It seems really dense to think that Patañjali said saMyama's
are impediments to samaadhi, because the first suutra
of the IV book states:
janmauSadhi-mantra-tapaH-samaadhi-jaaH siddhayaH.
So, *...samaadhi-jaaH siddhayaH*: siddhis are born of samaadhi
(and some other stuff mentioned in that suutra)!
(Perhaps the reason why Maharishi wanted to "misspell" 'siddhi'
as 'sidhi' was that he didn't want to use the word 'TM-vibhuutis'
even if that might have been more true to the suutra_s,
probably because 'sidhi' sounds cooler, so to speak, than
vibhuuti...)
vibhUti mfn. penetrating , pervading Nir. ; abundant , plentiful
RV. ; mighty , powerful ib. ; presiding over (gen.) ib. viii , 50 ,
6 ; m. N. of a Sa1dhya Hariv. ; of a son of Vis3va1mitra MBh. ; of
a king VP. ; f. development , multiplication , expansion , plenty ,
abundance Ka1v. Katha1s. &c. ; ****manifestation of might , great
power , superhuman power (consisting of eight faculties ,
especially attributed to S3iva , but supposed also to be attainable
by human beings through worship of that deity , viz. %{aNiman} ,
the power of becoming as minute as an atom ; %{laghiman} , extreme
lightness ; %{prA7pti} , attaining or reaching anything [e.g. the
moon with the tip of the finger] [979,1] ; %{prAkAmya} ,
irresistible will ; %{mahiman} , illimitable bulk ; %{IzitA} ,
supreme dominion ; %{vazitA} , subjugating by magic ; and %
{kAmA7vasAyitA} , the suppressing all desires)**** ib. ;
