HIGHER POWERS OF THE SPIRIT

SUPERNATURAL HUMAN POWERS

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With the attainment of true psychic powers are strengthened and higher spiritual as well as supernatural powers.

Occult, psychic powers have the gift of developing themselves further. Yoga Sutra describes what happens next with the powers of those persons who have already reached a certain level of power.

Here we consider and think about higher, supernatural power as described in the chapter three and four and aphorisms (or sutras – “threads”) from sutra 3.39 to sutra 3.49.

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Paranormal phenomena

 

It is said that if a yogi can separate himself from attachment to his body by using his personal siddhis (powers) and knowledge of energy channels, his consciousness will be able to penetrate another body and act in that body.

 

These kinds of human superpowers have been happening and, although very rarely, they are still happening. Yet most people on Earth are still concerned with the actions and reactions of their lower nature. But to attain superpower requires a great deal of renunciation and sacrifice, from the low nature of consciousness to the most noble. Even those who have attained supernatural powers will have to go further and find out whether those powers are real or false.

There are people who possess various powers, including the ability to “enter” and heal another’s body. There is, of course, another side to such energetic exits from one’s own self and into other people’s bodies. Man is either moral or not.

These superhuman phenomena of all values ​​are concerned with a very young science called parapsychology.

 

The human mind, though purely treasured, is still less damned because as soon as it senses its own powers, everything that was moral up to that point can easily turn into immoral. Life, time and space always set a new task for self-control. That is why I say that all life, from the morning until the next dawn, is nothing but sadhana – the practice of mind and soul, the practice of Yoga.

Yoga is so a whole life.

Please do not mix Yoga with yoga in which one carries his bones, muscles, and ego to compete with other bones, muscles, and egos back and forth. In the unfortunate time of human intelligence despite all incredible fast technological innovations, a very few people really have the knowledge of what Yoga is. For this reason I have invested in this complete book-web site a thousands of hours of practices, experiences and efforts, in order to try to explain at least the smallest part of the sense, meaning and magnitude of the transformation of the spirit.

 

Some of the people who have had the experience of death, their own or the death of loved and nearest ones, also have the experience of “entering” someone else’s spirit into their body, and vice versa. But these are still topics that the rational brain cannot easily grasp. In particular, science does not believe in “fairy tales” and in what it cannot measure by numbers. However, in such “fairy tales” as the entry of one energy body into another, the light changes and it happens that the light can be imaged by various machines or cameras (also made by the human hand).

Although the topic is very unusual, its fantasy may interest all people with an open mind.

If they really posses real siddhis or supernatural powers, such persons do not boast and play with these powers.

There have been always philosophical considerations on such topics. But do not forget that the best philosophers have always been even better psychoanalysts. But today, especially in the West, people’s interest in their personal psychic and superhuman powers (if not a rare profession) has replaced this or that business, or planning the next vacation.

There are many places in the Yoga literature where one can read about energy exiting the body and entering another. However, one does not need to read everything, especially the unprepared mind, spirit and heart should not read everything, because the rational mind will easily believe that by reading it has reached such described paranormal or supernatural powers.

 

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The following lines, or Sutras, speak of further, higher meditations or Samyamas. They may look fantastic, but these pages of Yoga literature were the inspiration and theme for many recorded films and books on paranormal and supernatural human powers.

It is up to you how you understand them.

 

Higher spirit and soul power, supernatural powers and Yoga Sutra

 

That old text of the Yoga Sutra says that a yoga practitioner who has perfected mid-breathing or samana prana, can itself emit rays of light.

Samana prana is a vital, vital force that governs the area between the heart and the navel and which is associated with the expansion of consciousness and transformation.

 

A yogi who has mastered the up breath or udana prana (the life force which flows the neck upwards; one of the five prana vayus, pancha pranas, five different life forces) and operates with the ability to respond to the outside world, can rise his body above water and swamps, or to walk on the thorns.
In the moment of death, the udana prana is responsible for the detachment of the astral body from the physical body and the advanced yogi who has mastered the udana prana can die at will.

A yogi who has mastered the mid breath or samana prana (the life force which governs the region between the heart and the navel and relates to expansion of the consciousness and transformation) can radiates the rays of light.

With samyama (meditation) on the relation between the ear and ether (space, akasha) one obtains the divine, supernatural hearing of all sounds.

With samyama on the relation between the body and space, or by achieving through the meditation the lightness of the cotton fibre, one can travel through air or levitate being freed of the power of gravitation.

With samyama on the external waves of mind which are separated from the body and ego, a  veil of the inner light, darkness and ignorance disappear. The consciousness of the yogi can then enter into another body without imagination.

With samyama on the gross elements and their forms, on the subtle elements, on the essential characteristics in both gross and subtle elements and on the influences which they have on the soul, the yogi gains mastery over the elements.

Through the mastery over the elements one gains the power of making the body atomically small (anima) and similar powers, and of perfection of the body.

If the yogi has attained those powers (mahasiddhi), he can make himself small as a atom or huge as a mountain (mahima), heavy (gharima) or light (laghima), he can realize anything he desires (prakamya). He can rule own body and spiritual powers (ishitva). He can also rule over other beings and elements (vashitva).

Nothing and no one stands in his way.

The perfection of the physical body (kaya-sampat) includes beauty (rupa), gracefulness (lavanaya), strength (bala) and adamantine hardness (vajra). Nothing can destroy it (samhanana), there are no sicknesses and pain, until the yogi wishes it (the later has a very deep meaning not a surfaced).

With samyama on the perception (grahana) and knowledge of the object, its nature or form (svarupa) and transformation which occurs due this perception and knowledge, on the ego-sense or I-ness (asmita) which is in the center of the indriyas (mental forms of actions and senses), on the relation (anvaya) between three innermost nature of the organs (gunas) and on the experience of them (arthavattva), one gains the mastery of the organs.

With this mastery (tato), the body gains the power of movements fast like the mind (manojavitvam), power of extrasensory perception (as clairvoyance or clairaudience) or power of the sense organs (vikaranabhavah) separately from the body and the mastery of the primal cause, prakriti (pradhanajayasca).

The power of the control of nature, prakriti, is a high and sweet power but it should not be a reason for the attachment to those powers, since such person already possesses the essential and intuitive knowledge of his being.