Theos-Talk Archives (February 2001 Message tt00029)

Very nice reply.

sanctius@mail.com wrote:

> John Stankiewicz:
> >Siddhis are powers that manifest when a person
> >has progressed to a certain/whatever level of degree.
>
> Perhaps persons too are powers that manifest when a Monad
> has progressed to a certain/whatever level of degree?
>
> >We Westerners are under the illusion that All
> >can be known and examined in all certainty.
>
> Perhaps all humanity is under the
> illusion that All cannot be known?
>

perhaps. But what is at the bottom of the need to know?

>
> >Not every initiate will experience/have that particular
> >siddhi. It WILL manifest if there is a need for it.
>
> If I consider myself a siddhi for a moment: Because I AM
> manifested, there is a need for this particular kind of
> siddhi like me. I don't believe that I can make any siddhis,
> because I am a siddhi too, but the one who made me shall make
> them for me. So I don't need to care about making siddhis,
> because that's just an illusion. I am just a personality-siddhi
> of a some degree of some vast entity out there in everywhere.
> That which created me must be amused to watch how I move,
> talk and write like I was inteded to move, talk and write.
>

Nice, but not what I was thinking of as the use of that term, siddhi.
You and I most likely are being dreamed right now. And we, as dream
characters, may manifest certain siddhis. Or not.

>
> >And experience/history has shown that no two yogins
> >(or even Gurus) who have progressed to a certain degree,
> >necessarily exhibit the same siddhi.
>
> There are no identical personalities exhibited,
> and there are no identical siddhis shown. Logical.
>
> >So there is no yardstick you can really apply,
> >and I feel that's what you're trying to do.
>
> Pardon me for being a little furry animal that runs
> after yardsticks and bringing them to His Master... O:-)
>

Who is your Master?

>
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