11. Powers and Miracles of Yoga🔗

The other day, I had the opportunity to sit with a great scholar who is doing some research on the ancient civilization which existed in India. The Indian civilization is the world's oldest living civilization.

As we spoke, I was amazed to see the way in which this civilization has expressed its intelligence! Not just in the enlightenment sciences; in aviation, architecture, civil engineering! This scholar was saying very clearly that the river Ganga is man-made. Nearly ten thousand years ago, this river was created, and man-made bridges were built on the ocean. The understanding and clarity they experienced and expressed! I was amazed. How could they do so much, not just in the inner world, but in the outer world as well?

Then I understood: when you dive deep into yoga, into this consciousness, when there is no thought, when you are established in your true nature, you have limitless energy and true understanding about everything. In whichever direction you turn your consciousness, you will have complete clarity in that dimension, about that truth. It will be waiting to reveal all its mysteries to you. All you need is to just look into it. You will be able to connect with it and receive all the information and secrets and mysteries. You can just download all the information you need. This is what Patanjali means when he says 'limitlessness and total understanding.'

If you are a yogi, if you are in a thoughtless zone, you can just direct your restful awareness in any direction, and you will know it completely. This is the space of sammyama or complete completion that Patanjali describes.

I have seen Indian yogis do this during my days of spiritual wandering. I had the fortune of studying with many Indian yogis. They can just master anything using the power of complete completion.

I once saw a yogi whose devotee brought him an electronic gadget; I think it was a CD player or some such thing. He did not even know English to read the signs on the buttons, but I could see very clearly that the moment he picked up the gadget, he started handling it perfectly, as if he had been living with it! I asked him, 'How can this be, Swami? How did you learn how to handle this gadget?' He said, 'I may not know this particular machine, but I know how the whole system works; how the whole thing functions.'

guru, could do anything just by creating a powerful sound wave! For example, if he wanted to throw a stone on a tree to make the fruits fall, he would just create a powerful sound, and the sound wave would hit the tree and the fruit would fall. If he wanted to break a stone, he would take the stone in the hand and create a sound wave as if it has been hit by a hammer. That sound wave would be so strong that the stone would break into pieces! Sometimes he would create a sound like a dog, and forty or fifty dogs from two or three kilometers around would come running towards him.

Different yogis master different powers. They live in a different zone. They express different kinds of energy. When you are established in complete completion, svarūpe'vasthānam, total understanding

It is very difficult for us to understand. I have seen yogis playing with the power of the mind, with the power of energy. Yogi Yogananda Puri, my yoga and limitlessness happen naturally.

ACTIVITY

When you are trying to learn or understand something new, first relax, fall into the space of restful awareness and then focus on it again. You will see how much more effortless it has become!

Sutra 4

Till that state is reached, there is clutching and identification with thought patterns.