It is difficult for people not knowing TM to understand what is behind, as everything is top secret. I read a commentary on a webside which talked about Patanjali's sutras:
It seems incumbent on the Maharishi or the TM movement to supply a reference or other form of proof that they are right and everyone else is wrong.
So we have on one hand dozens of translators and commentators -- including Vyasa and Shankara themselves -- who indicate that the siddhis are an obstacle to transcendence.
On the other, we have TM-scholars.....
We're sorry. Our money is on mainstream Indian thought. Given what we've seen in our twenty-plus years in the TM movement, the TM-Sidhis are not only obstacles to transcendence and enlightenment -- they are very dangerous practices indeed.
Oh yeah, and real expensive, too.
The reality of samyama and unity is the base to Patanjali's sutras and to siddhis.
No one in the TM movement has an idea about reality, if scholar or not, it is not a question of being a scholars... to get to samyama. Those sutras discribe unity as a differentiated experience in the body on special unity levels.
For example 'Soham' is applied with the breath 'I am that', the unity of all beings breathing, it is universal, therefore, that type of self-realization gets identified with the common breath in rhythme with the universe, the breath of all breath.
It is like feeling, I am one with all beings, therefore my self is not different from God breathing in all beings.
That is a siddhi power.
Compared to TM they would repeat 'I am that' two to four times and think, all is done, realization will come when consciousness is ready.
It is ridiculous, because the basic understanding is not there, and will never be there. They think the universe is a technique, and they know everything. They don't question the process of samyama. It is a superficial and simple level, naive, we can compare it to believing in fairy tales.
It seems incumbent on the Maharishi or the TM movement to supply a reference or other form of proof that they are right and everyone else is wrong.
So we have on one hand dozens of translators and commentators -- including Vyasa and Shankara themselves -- who indicate that the siddhis are an obstacle to transcendence.
On the other, we have TM-scholars.....
We're sorry. Our money is on mainstream Indian thought. Given what we've seen in our twenty-plus years in the TM movement, the TM-Sidhis are not only obstacles to transcendence and enlightenment -- they are very dangerous practices indeed.
Oh yeah, and real expensive, too.
The reality of samyama and unity is the base to Patanjali's sutras and to siddhis.
No one in the TM movement has an idea about reality, if scholar or not, it is not a question of being a scholars... to get to samyama. Those sutras discribe unity as a differentiated experience in the body on special unity levels.
For example 'Soham' is applied with the breath 'I am that', the unity of all beings breathing, it is universal, therefore, that type of self-realization gets identified with the common breath in rhythme with the universe, the breath of all breath.
It is like feeling, I am one with all beings, therefore my self is not different from God breathing in all beings.
That is a siddhi power.
Compared to TM they would repeat 'I am that' two to four times and think, all is done, realization will come when consciousness is ready.
It is ridiculous, because the basic understanding is not there, and will never be there. They think the universe is a technique, and they know everything. They don't question the process of samyama. It is a superficial and simple level, naive, we can compare it to believing in fairy tales.
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