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White magic of exchange VITHAL C NADKARNI
THE Buddha and his disciples were once waiting for the boatman near the Ganges when a Yogi came by striding and gave them a pitying look only to walk on the water to cross the river. The bewildered disciples looked to the Buddha but he did not respond. Later, as they crossed the river in a sailboat, the Buddha asked the sailor how much he charged to take his retinue across and the boatman mentioned a paltry sum.
The Buddha then told his disciples that the yogi who had meditated for most of his life to learn how to tread water had wasted his life to learn a cheap trick and he went on to bind his followers to a modest code of conduct that never "showed off" siddhis or "miraculous" powers to impress people.
In his Yoga Sutra, Patanjali also talks about siddhis or magical attainments that may be obtained by birth or through genes; by elixir or herbs; or by the chanting of occult mantras; by austerities; or by attainment of samadhi.
But in the very next breath the Master provides a warning that echoes the Buddha's ban on siddhis: If you want true liberation give up these powers; only then is the seed of evil destroyed as the individual ego merges with the universal one. After that ultimate attainment, the great souls never return to this temporary world which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection or sam-siddhi, says Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita.
Intriguingly, the Buddha's own personal name, Siddhartha, is based on the root-word Siddha' and literally means "he whose aim is accomplished". He distinguishes between two types of powers: the garden variety of siddhis, which include all those forces of the conditioned world that transform or energise the elements.
These should include modern 'miracles' such as airplanes, satellites, telephones, computers and internet that transform elements. Buddha's second category has extraordinary siddhis or the ability to open beings up for liberating and enlightening truths. Again include secular siddhisof modern age, the byproduct of hundreds of years of continuing improvement. That's the theme of The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley.
Economic progress is an evolutionary phenomenon, he argues, which occurs in an undirected bottoms-up way as a result of the selective survival of ideas and technologies. What makes it work is exchange, today's supreme dharma. RAJENDRA.DESHPANDE. TRAINER.
Jo J Vancheel Toh Tay Laho
जगा सारखे वर्तावे l आपले अंतरिचे कळू न द्यावे ll जनी असोनी जनार्धन व्हावे l येणे रिती राहता ll परमहंस शंकर महाराज
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