Hari Om
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Namaste Atanu (et.al)
I can see your point. If one reads Patanjali'ji's Yoga Sutra's there is a 'stitch' (sutra) perscribed to know past lives, let alone other siddhi.
The approach , we have reviewed, called samyama
http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/sho...45&postcount=7
Yudhamanyu points out that this technique of knowing the past or future may be entertainment. That was the first thing that popped in my mind also ( even though that does not make it so!).
Now to make a point -
no matter what technique a sadhu wishes to exercise, one must have the credentials to execute the sutras of
patanjali'ji or of Sri Ravi Shankar's technique. What is the credentials?
Enough pure conciousness established in ones' being. For the new sadhu's on this HDF, it's enough of the silience of the SELF residing in one's awareness, a 'restful alertness' stable in one's being.
In the beginning of the siddhi practice, one does this after meditation, before getting up and moving around in activity. Why so? it is the time when the conditions are right ... freshness of mind, and silence infused in ones' awareness - this is a restfully-alert condition, some call dynamic-silence. Some also call it 'left over' samadhi , even though that is a gross metaphor, its is the 'residue' of ones transcending into pure consciousness ( some call Being, SELF, etc etc), some even try to identify it by specific EKG , EEG patterns. It is this condition that spawns success for this technique.
I hear one asking 'why so?'. Because it is this silence,
this pure consiousness [how ever much one brings into consciousness from transcending] that is
unbounded by space and time. It only knows NOW. and NOW is eternity, unbounded in any dimension. Like that , it is this pure filed of possiblity, that allows any sutra to be executed sucessfully.
Without this awareness the sutra remains dormant. This is is His grace, this is His 'seat belt' sort of, so one does not dabble in an area that cannot be supported by one's intellect, mind-condition, and nervious system.
Just think how upside-down this world would be if anyone (with out the discipline) could exercise a yoga-sutra w/o the credentials. In who's hands would it fall? How would good-sattvic things come from this? We are a mischievous bunch as humans, yes? Look at the laws of nature we own today via our scientifc methods. Our intent is good 99% of the time, but the 1% that use this knowledge for other things ( that harm) come into play. So, the gate-keys to the siddhi's are self-discipline, then one gets the keys to the gate.
p.s. the goal of all siddhi's is Dharmamega, cloud pouring virture; fullness of Being, Moksha. Not singularly, but collectively, to produce a full-sadhu-muni.
pranams,
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