Re: Ajna- The third eye Chakra(how to stop judging)
Hari Om
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Originally Posted by
sarabhanga
~ there is a very fine line in practice, with quite opposing potential results when that line is crossed. And I wonder at the wisdom of advising that siddhi is available and to be wished for.
Namaste sarabhanga,
thank you for your response and points well made.
Life is a fine line too, no? Good vs. Bad, too much vs. not enough. Give a person a bat, and one person goes and plays baseball, another hits another over the head to steal their pocket book.
Siddhi is no different.
I see your point being made and respect your views and BobG's. Yet one thing I ask you (both) to consider. Siddhi results do not come without purification and the infusion of pure consciousness. This infusion is self-regulating for the sadhu.
It is not as if one opens Patanjaji's book , reads the sutra on being invisible and zap, one is translucent walking in and robbing a bank.
'Perfection' comes with practice, practice purifies the sadhu. Purification infuses proper dharma and right action. From this action the sadhu acts accordingly and within the laws of nature. This is why my POV is what it is.
I have the greatest confidence in Patanjali's metodology and confidence of this self-regulating pure consciousness. Of this I do not have one speck of doubt.
I also wrote with my first post,
If someone wishes to
earn siddhi abilities, there is a method offered, that of Samyama.
Siddhis are earned. If some one 'wishes' for these abilties, that is about as far as they will get , a wish. As If I get in an elevator and wish to got to the 5th floor, I can wish all day, but will not move till I push the 5th floor button. Like that, one needs the proper approach. That is sanyama. Samyama comes with time, practice and purification.
I am not talking theory here. I am talking personal practice and instruction. It is key (for me) that when one talks of these matters, that some personal experience has taken place to form a POV. Otherwise the conversation is all throry, with no taste of the practice.
pranams,
Last edited by yajvan; 09 January 2008 at 09:50 AM.
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