Yoga
« You | Posted on 07/17/2009 11:36 pm by admin
I was listening to Dr. Wayne Dyer’s Manifesting Your Destiny the other day as a review. He had mentioned in one of the lessons a term “vibhuti“. He was referring to things that very special beings have been know to be able to do throughout time. Dr. Dyer was saying this to remind us of our divinty. He was saying why shouldn’t we be able to do these things? This reminded me of a book that came to me years ago on Kundilini Yoga. In the book they spoke of vibhuti, “distractions along the path to enlightenment.” They said these things could manifest for those that practice yoga and meditation. I have a background with Transcendental Meditation. Maharishi had a program he called Siddha where one can be taught to levitate. Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could do these things? Reclaim our Divinty. I believe my intuitive and healing nature has been enhanced from my meditation and yoga practice.
Vibhuti Pada
Patanjali in the Vibhuti Pada of the Yoga Sutras, mentions many different vibhutis:
- Knowledge of the past and future
- Understanding the sounds (language) of all beings
- Knowledge of previous existences
- Knowing the minds of others
- Invisibility
- Suspending the ability of the body to be heard, touched, tasted, or smelled
- Foreknowledge of the time of death
- Strength of any attitude (such as friendliness)
- Super strength (such as the strength of an elephant)
- Knowledge of subtle, hidden, remote things
- Knowledge of worlds, realms, universes, etc.
- Knowledge of the arrangement of stars, planets, etc.
- Knowledge of the movement of stars, planets, etc.
- Knowledge of the arrangement of systems in the body
- Freedom from hunger and thirst
- Attainment of steadiness or immobility
- Visions of Siddhas (perfected beings)
- Knowledge of anything and everything
- Knowledge of the mind
- Knowledge of pure consciousness (purusha)
- Psychic hearing, touch, vision, taste, and smell
- Entering and controlling the bodies of others
- Ability to float or walk on water, swamps, thorns, and other such objects
- Ability to glow or radiate light around the body
- Super hearing (hearing at vast distances)
- Ability to fly
- Mastery over the elements (earth, water, fire, air, space)
- Making the body atomically small, indestructible, perfect
- Perfection of the body in beauty, strength, grace, and brilliance
- Mastery over the senses
- Quickness of the mind, perception with the senses
- Supremacy over all states of existence, omnipotence
- Higher knowledge
- Discriminating knowledge
- Absolute freedom (kaivalyam)
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