Siddhis are like candlelight

Good morning everyone,

Here is today's quote:

You do all kinds of things to come upon this strange beauty of silence. Do not do it, just observe. Look, sirs, you know in all this are various powers of clairvoyance, reading somebody’s thought. There are various powers, you know what I am talking about, don’t you? You call them siddhis, don’t you? Do you know all these things are like candles—candlelight in the sun? When there is no sun, there is darkness, and then the light of the candle is very important; but when there is the sun, the light, the beauty, the clarity, then all these powers, these siddhis are like candlelight. They have no value at all. And when you have the light, there is nothing else—developing various centres, the chakras, kundalinis, you know all that business. You need a sane, logical, reasoning mind, not a stupid mind. A mind that is dull can sit for centuries breathing, concentrating on its various chakras, and you know all that playing with kundalinis—it can never come upon that which is timeless, that which is real beauty, truth and love.

Krishnamurti in India 1970-71, pp 180-181

Here is my reflection.

Well, here is another one in the eye for the yogis! When you learn about yourself from yourself and for yourself, you are not being selfish and narcisistic; you are being a light to yourself. When you are this light then the teacher is a like the candle in the daylight: he or she has no value. One is attracted to the teacher because one is in the dark, but the teacher cannot lead you to the light. He is in the dark to; this is why he attracts students. He has created a method and an ideal and he clings to that as if it were his candle! A stupid mind will explore chakras and kundalini and breathing for centuries; what you need is a mind that is sane and logical, that can see the false as false and not try to escape.

Best wishes

Robert