Vaj wrote:
>
> On Feb 12, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
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>> Of course as you konw Vaj siddhis as well as mantras work on the
>> principles of the physics of sound or known as the science nada yoga. I
>> suppose at a very low level they "might" effect the DNA. It is just sad
>> that in these discussions there is an ignorance of this important yogic
>> science. To me it is very clear: the mantras resonate with my nervous
>> system and then modify it until it sustains that experience and thus you
>> have mantra siddhi. It is the same law of physics that makes a glass
>> vibrate when it is at a resonant frequency. However the glass does not
>> have the flexibility to adapt to the vibration and if too intense
>> shatters.
>
> I draw a distinction between the coincidental spontaneity of mantra
> siddhi and consciously sought after siddhi. In the case of the latter,
> shakti is aroused up a path other than the sushumna and directly
> awakens certain dalas, the petals of the sahasara, giving bliss and
> experiences at first but it does not have access to bindu, underlying
> oneness, through this pathway. It's a dead end.
>
> Mantra-siddhi coincidentally awakened is the will of the ishta-devata
> put into action which remains untainted by ego or "I" (and therefore
> remains an expression of natural law).
But when all is said and done it is just simple sound physics played out
at a subtler level of the mind and nervous system.
