Yoga declares that all power of the universe flows from the mind,
be it individual, or universal (mahat).
A Yoga practitioner can gain any number of powers simply by practising the related disciplines.
It may be noted that these powers have actually been seen manifested in great yogis.
According to Patanjali, the Siddhis (powers) are attained by birth,
chemical means, the power of words, mortification, or concentration.
He also adds that among all, the mind which has attained to Samadhi alone is the highest. A person attaining powers through medicines, words of blessings, or mortifications, still has desires, but that man who has attained Samadhi through concentration is free from all desires and hence superior to all.
be it individual, or universal (mahat).
A Yoga practitioner can gain any number of powers simply by practising the related disciplines.
It may be noted that these powers have actually been seen manifested in great yogis.
According to Patanjali, the Siddhis (powers) are attained by birth,
chemical means, the power of words, mortification, or concentration.
He also adds that among all, the mind which has attained to Samadhi alone is the highest. A person attaining powers through medicines, words of blessings, or mortifications, still has desires, but that man who has attained Samadhi through concentration is free from all desires and hence superior to all.
Some of the powers that a yogi can attain are:
* All enmities and violence cease in the presence of the yogi who is established in Ahimsa (non-violence).
* A yogi established in truthfulness, can get for himself or others, anything that he desires; established in non-stealing, one gets all the wealth; when established in continence, one gets unsurpassed energy; established in non-acceptance of gifts, a yogi gets the memory of his previous lives; from contentment comes happiness;
by repetition of a mantra comes the realisation of that particular deity.
by repetition of a mantra comes the realisation of that particular deity.
* All knowledge comes to a yogi who succeeds in attaining samyama (the three--Dharana, Dhyana, and Samadhi--together). He can even understand the language of animals and birds by distinguishing between Shabda (sound), Artha (meaning), and Jnana (knowledge).
* By applying samyama on the bodily signs of others,
a yogi can know the nature of that person's mind.
a yogi can know the nature of that person's mind.
* A yogi can become unseen if he wishes so, by making samyama on his body.
* By focussing on the strength of an elephant (or any other such animal), a yogi gains that kind of strength. This also explains why one should be careful about the company one keeps.
* Focussing on the sun, the moon, and the pole star one gains the knowledge of the world, the stars, and the celestial motions respectively.
* By focussing on the higher states of mind (sattva), one gets the supernatural hearing, touching, seeing, tasting and smelling; By focussing on the throat, one controls hunger; by focussing on the heart, one gets the knowledge of the minds.
* It is easy for a yogi to walk on water, thorns etc. He can move at the speed of the mind, become small, become heavier than a mountain, look exceptionally beautiful, and can get surrounded by light.
Patanjali, however, cautions that these are powers in the worldly state, but are great obstacles to the attainment of the highest samadhi, which brings liberation. Mukti
When the soul realises that it depends on nothing in the universe, and desires nothing,
then It attains Kaivalya (lit. uniqueness, freedom) and perfection.
This comes when the intellect (sattva), which usually is a mixture of purity and impurity,
has been made as pure as the Purusha itself.
It is then that the Sattva reflects only on real purity,
and an aspirant realises that he had neither birth nor death, nor need for heaven or earth.
He realises that he neither came nor went, it was nature which was moving,
and that movement was reflected upon the soul.
then It attains Kaivalya (lit. uniqueness, freedom) and perfection.
This comes when the intellect (sattva), which usually is a mixture of purity and impurity,
has been made as pure as the Purusha itself.
It is then that the Sattva reflects only on real purity,
and an aspirant realises that he had neither birth nor death, nor need for heaven or earth.
He realises that he neither came nor went, it was nature which was moving,
and that movement was reflected upon the soul.
"Nature's task is done, this unselfish task which our sweet nurse, nature, had imposed upon herself. She gently took the self-forgetting soul by the hand, as it were, and showed him all the experiences in the universe, all manifestations, bringing him higher and higher through various bodies, till his lost glory came back, and he remembered his own nature. Then the kind mother went back the same way she came, for others who also have lost their way in the trackless desert of life. And thus is she working, without beginning and without end. And thus through pleasure and pain, through good and evil, the infinite river of souls is flowing into the ocean of perfection, of self-realisation."
(Swami Vivekananda Raja Yoga,
Complete Works, Vol. I. 304.)
(Swami Vivekananda Raja Yoga,
Complete Works, Vol. I. 304.)
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