I learned the so called "sidhi" programme from Mahesh when I was with the International Staff in 1976. The "programme" caused a lot of distress and I finally stopped doing it. Later I undertook to make a translation of the Yoga Sutras just out of curiosity! At first I tried to make the translation work out like Mahesh had explained the third section of the text. But that didn't work well. There were just too many places and words that had to be really bent out of shape to even come close to Mahesh's version. So I just took each sutra on its own, beginning with the first one "now yoga is explaines" and worked, one by one, from there. The yoga sutras explain what to do and how to do it and it's nothing like Mahesh's explanation. The sutras, in the third section, are much more like ko'ans in Japanese Zen - they are tools for understanding meditation as taught and explained in the first two sections. Mahesh's "famous" flying sutra has, for example, nothing to do with flying but is about moving unencumbered through "space" - in this case one's life ... you move effortlessly through your life because you have let go of the burdens of past and future, of wishing things were otherwise than they are, of preoccupation with preconceived notions about how things ought to be.
Mahesh made a lot of money but didn't actually sell anything worthwhile except returning to the object of meditation "as easily as" you experience any thought.
