Higher Powers of Consciousness 

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With the attainment of the lower level of Samadhi come various occult-yogic-psychic powers, siddhi. These are higher powers of consciousness.

The Yoga Sutra provides a deeper explanations of these powers. Samyama which is both the practice and experience, is the sum of the knowledge of concentration, meditation and Samadhi. It brings one’s consciousness to the higher powers of consciousness. Yoga Sutra describes Samyama in the third chapter. On this page we interpret the Sutras 3.17 – 3.38.

Thus, with samyama (advanced concentration and meditation) on the sound of the word one can separate the sound, meaning and the action of the meaning of words.

An example of this is a person whose senses are so extraordinary developed that such a person is able to understand the language of nature and animals as well as the language of all humans without speaking and understanding any of the worlds’s languages.

Then, when the waves of mind are stilled, the memory of the person is transformed and he or she gains the insight into past lives.

With samyama on other people’s „marks“ which are thoughts and actions, while being detached from them at the same time, one gains the knowledge of the nature of other person’s mind.

This is only possible when Samyama is simultaneously done on the other person’s heart. This implies that the very heart of a person is already purified.

 

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Samyamas are practices and experience of concentration, meditation and samadhi, it is experience of higher powers of consciousness.

According to Yoga Sutras, when a person can fully control and rise above his own natural abilities in knowing, learning and understanding at own will detached from the gross body-senses organs, he can rise above own former misery and pain. Such person and his sounds can be „invisible“ to the other’s perception.

With samyama on two different karmas, the one which will manifest in earlier and another which will manifest in later life, one will gain knowledge about the exact time of his death.

With samyama on friendliness toward happy, compassion for the unhappy, joy in the wholesome, disinterest for the harmful and nasty, man develops good qualities.

With samyama on the strength like of the elephant man gains the straight.

With samyama on the inner light, man attains knowledge about the subtle and hidden and about the distance.

With samyama on the sun one gains the knowledge of the cosmic dimension. With the samyama on the moon one gains knowledge of the arrangement of the stars. With samyama on the polestar one gains the knowledge of the movement of the stars.

With the samyama on the navel centre one gains the knowledge of the body structure and on the inner of the throat. One can control hunger and thirst.

With the samyama on the tube within the chest one attained complete steadiness.

With the samyama on the radiant light (jyotisi) within the back of the head one is able to get psychic touch with one’s masters, with the psychic or celestial beings.

To the siddhis (persons who posses occult powers) who already have achieved higher state of purification of the mind nothing will be unknown and they can experience the enlightenment without doing other samyamas.

With the samyama on the heart,one gains finer knowledge of the mind.

One can gain the knowledge of the Self only if one can detach one’s experience of joy (which is a sattvic power of nature) from Atman (the true Self, the soul in its purest immortal essence), or from Purusha (when pervades in the body). Only when one can distance himself even from the joy of the reflexion of the true Self, which is still worldly, one can become a joy of the pure soul, itself.

This joy without attachment leads to the spontaneous illumination which transcendence the sense of hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell to the supernatural.

If worldly, even this powers can be the obstacles to the highest transformation.

Even the siddhis live in the mind.

When the mind is detached even from it own’s powers there will be a chance for the real liberation (kaivalya moksha).

The state when the mind is „nowhere“, is called nirmal sthiti, a continued thoughtless state in its highest purity.

A liberated soul while still alive is called a Jivanmukti (not to be confused with the similar labeled modern physical yoga style invented in the USA).