Ah! What is the secret about all this Life? One may say the same
routine goes on day after day. Every step is pre-determined, and not a
step goes this way or the other. Well, this may be true in some cases.
If we ask a Pilot who takes off from different airports and lands at
different types of airports, the truth will be horrifying. Every
take-off and landing becomes a nightmare when the weather turns
unfriendly. Many aircraft have disappeared and some some have landed in
the sea instead of the airport! People hold their heart in their hands
and pray when the plane is in turbulence. Life may not be that
dangerously close to many others, say in the Defence Forces, fighting
along the snow-clad mountain borders of the country, but nevertheless,
dangerously close!
But, the secrets we are dealing about are really secrets that may never
be revealed, even if one knows them! There are many rishi or drushtaras who know them, too. There are also instances of persons leaving the body and
returning (clairvoyance), entering another person's body (parakaya pravesha), controlling others' mind and thoughts and action (vashikarana),
mind-reading, forecasting things that may happen and seeing it happen (premonition),, near death
experience (NDE), dreaming things that may happen, feeling and expressing same thoughts at the same time however distant apart (telepathy), letters crossing each other, etc. No explicable solutions are there to these questions; but, definitely one can experience them.
The inexplicable subtle forces operate in the level of akasha, atmosphere. It is possible to harness them when one tries to reach that level of expanded consciousness with the help of transcendental meditation. Much of our energy is wasted in all and sundry worldly activities, including thinking. Yoga helps to conserve this energy by silence (mouna) and streamlining the conserved energy through asana and pranayama. Thus a controlled mind, senses, and body organs can help concentrate on the extra-sensorial (atindriya) subtle aspects. This is also known as siddhi or attainments of yogis. There are simpler eight siddhis and many more, may be about sixty-four! Many experts in yoga have experienced them and their accounts are available, whether one believes them or not is another question..Nobody can deny the experiences of another person just because he/she cannot understand them. Some people call themselves radicalists or rationalists and boast of knowing everything as cause and effect; such persons may not be knowing the effect of yogic trance, power of the sound, sacred letters, bijakshara mantra. Many a learned pundits have no idea about ekayana veda taught by Sri Hari Narayana to Sankarshana deva and do not know the origin of sound waves and mantra and the powers inherent in each and every alphabet! We cannot help them. Some are adamant mudhas and have to run the mill!
Now, coming to siddhis, hathayoga pradeepika gives a lot of details. These should nnot bepractised by ordinary people who are not initiated by learned experts. So also there are kundalini yoga and asanas that are not easy; these require extraordinary courage, physical stamina and capacity to withstan higher energy flows in the weak bodies and tender nerves and neurons.
There is another interesting fact about the siddhi purusha. These yogis do not, ordinarily, eat and drink with common people. They have secret hide-outs and their life-style is curious. Some live on just one boiled potato a week and another on a cup of cofee a week! Some are said to live thousand of years changing bodies as and when they deem it necessary. Even Shankaracharya, it is said, did parakaya pravesha once in Kashmir. Hence, these subjects are the prerogatives of a specialized few. Other mortals just eat, live and die..
we will never know the secrets of great sages,rishi munis unless we also become one like them. Also, it may happen to anybody,anytime! It is extremely difficult to know even if god sits with us as a commoner and most of the time we will not give attention to it. We will not know even if He, the Lord shouts at us! That is another problem. .
The inexplicable subtle forces operate in the level of akasha, atmosphere. It is possible to harness them when one tries to reach that level of expanded consciousness with the help of transcendental meditation. Much of our energy is wasted in all and sundry worldly activities, including thinking. Yoga helps to conserve this energy by silence (mouna) and streamlining the conserved energy through asana and pranayama. Thus a controlled mind, senses, and body organs can help concentrate on the extra-sensorial (atindriya) subtle aspects. This is also known as siddhi or attainments of yogis. There are simpler eight siddhis and many more, may be about sixty-four! Many experts in yoga have experienced them and their accounts are available, whether one believes them or not is another question..Nobody can deny the experiences of another person just because he/she cannot understand them. Some people call themselves radicalists or rationalists and boast of knowing everything as cause and effect; such persons may not be knowing the effect of yogic trance, power of the sound, sacred letters, bijakshara mantra. Many a learned pundits have no idea about ekayana veda taught by Sri Hari Narayana to Sankarshana deva and do not know the origin of sound waves and mantra and the powers inherent in each and every alphabet! We cannot help them. Some are adamant mudhas and have to run the mill!
Now, coming to siddhis, hathayoga pradeepika gives a lot of details. These should nnot bepractised by ordinary people who are not initiated by learned experts. So also there are kundalini yoga and asanas that are not easy; these require extraordinary courage, physical stamina and capacity to withstan higher energy flows in the weak bodies and tender nerves and neurons.
There is another interesting fact about the siddhi purusha. These yogis do not, ordinarily, eat and drink with common people. They have secret hide-outs and their life-style is curious. Some live on just one boiled potato a week and another on a cup of cofee a week! Some are said to live thousand of years changing bodies as and when they deem it necessary. Even Shankaracharya, it is said, did parakaya pravesha once in Kashmir. Hence, these subjects are the prerogatives of a specialized few. Other mortals just eat, live and die..
we will never know the secrets of great sages,rishi munis unless we also become one like them. Also, it may happen to anybody,anytime! It is extremely difficult to know even if god sits with us as a commoner and most of the time we will not give attention to it. We will not know even if He, the Lord shouts at us! That is another problem. .
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