On May 9, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote:
> On May 9, 2012, at 5:43 PM, sparaig wrote:
>
> > Of course. As I point out in a subsequent post. Even if one can
float around a room, and that ability is predicated upon being in
Unity Consciousness, one still can't assert (in the Western
philosophical sense) that one is "one with the universe."
>
> Levitation is associated with yoga-darshana texts like the YS,
but it is not common (that I am aware of) to see levitation
associated with Advaita Vedanta.
>
> The SoC associated with yoga-darshana is turiyatita ("CC�), not
brahma-chetana (�UC�)...
I am not familiar with these terms, but this seems like if could be
right. After all, in Patanjali, the 'attainments' seem to be
regarded as a phenomenon along the way, not at the end of the path.
Maharishi, correctly IMO, attributes different states of
consciousness to differing darshanas of ways of seeing reality, so he
attributes CC to the YS, UC to Advaita Vedanta. The thing is, there
are no advaita vedanta practices in TM or the TM Sidhi program...
