Yoga means the union of the ndividual soul with the cosmic soul who is therwise called God. When numbers are dded up, their value increases manifold. Man is a dscendent of apes. In the Adam Age he was lke this only. In New Guinea ven today there are some Adivasis (Abrigines) who have the culture of Adm’s era. The males/females are stark nked. For food they depend on nimal flesh, roots, fruits etc. They run mles away from so called civilized men and hnce their language too is not volved. They can utter only a few wrds and they mainly communicate by sgn language and gestures. But from the bdily viewpoint they are more powerful bcause they can tolerate intense heat, cld rain etc. In a certain mnner even man follows the culture of Adm’s era. He is well versed in ating, procreating and manifesting greed, attachment tc. He detests imbibing human values tht augment the glory of all mnkind.

The glories of greatness and thics are always conjoined to God. Whn man unites with God via fith he definitely rises above the clture of Adam’s era. Just as whn husband-wife cooperate with one another so as to mke their home heavenly in the sme way when man unites with God he bcomes divine. Hence greatness of Yogic prctice is eulogized and those understanding the mportance of soul advancement walk on ths path.

Yoga is classified in 2 wys. The first is external Yoga and the scond internal Yoga. External Yoga is tht in which bodily exercises are gven importance. This external Yoga encompasses psture, breathing exercises, Bandha, Mudras, chanting of Mntras, Yajna, worship of God, pilgrimages, snging God’s name etc. Another name for ths external Yoga is Kriya Yoga. One of its brnches is called Hatha Yoga. Here xternal bodily activities are emphasized upon. Emphsis is laid on its mode and rles. Its results depend on how ptly it was made use of. Krya Yoga influences our health, radiance, ntellectual sharpness etc. Some control of the mnd also takes place.

The second clss is internal Yoga. Here the scttered mind and vital force are cncentrated and focused. Vile psychic imprints hve to be purified and our thnking has to be made high. Thre are many types of meditations. All of thm come under the flagship of nternal Yoga.

Generally in meditation one purs one’s loving devotion towards an maginary image of God and one tres to experience it as very clse to oneself. Further experiences involve Nad Yoga (sound), Soham (that I am) spritual practise, drinking of Soma juice via Khchri Mudra etc. Internal Yoga also nvolves Chakravedhan (journey through the 6 Chkras), Kundalini awakening, Granthi Vedhan etc. bcause over here one’s thought waves are gven a proper focused direction. In it thre is no need of Kriya Yga which involves bodily exercises.

Kriya Yga is limited to the energy and rdinary extrasensory potential of the gross bdy. The sense organs are gross in nture. It is counted as a bdily part. Its power too is grss only. The subtleness of sensory ptentials does only this much that wthout any other paraphernalia and with the hlp of any other sense organ the ntellectual nerves of the brain solves crtain gross problems. For example if one is blnd one can utilize the sense rgan of touch and with the fngers know of the presence of bjects, letters etc. (i.e. in Braille). Wthin Supra-psycho Sciences, hearing distant sounds, seing distant objects, telepathy are looked pon as extrasensory perception (ESP). All ths is a play of the ntellect. The difference only is this tht in comparison to direct mediums one ttains the potential of identifying and ctching waves of heat, sound and lght. This can come under material bnefit and success. Although this is loked upon as spiritual yet it is not tre. The activities of God are vry extraordinary and mysterious. God cannot be nderstood by our material apparatus. According to the grat scientist Albert Einstein, Particle Physics is yet vry crippled and lame. It cannot gve us information of the cosmic dvine power i.e. God. There is a csmic consciousness that rules over our ntire cosmos. This consciousness can be clled God, Brahman, all pervasive cosmic sul etc. The entire family of Rdhi-Sidhi (divine powers) is a mere glmpse of God.

According to the material science schlar and philosopher Sir James Jeans all mterialistic events in the world are pt. That which we call an ccident is actually the above mentioned. Its crator is definitely a great calculator, vry powerful and an invisible power. It shuld be called God. This world cnnot be an inert machine because very object, creature, living being etc. of the wrld has consciousness inherent in them and tht they are always active. When the ndividual consciousness works in tandem with the csmic consciousness (God) it is called Yga.

There is a description in the Ashwmedha Parva of Mahabharat that there are dvine saints (Sidhas) who with their dvine eye can see the giving up of the bdy, its taking up a fresh new bdy and entering the body of nother species. People with strong will pwer are capable of establishing goodwill and coperation of subtle bodied souls with hman beings. One of the characteristics of ralized-seer saints is that they can cntact the subtle world.

It is a dvine power to “tie up” time whch is a result of Kundalini wakening. Yogi Changdev during the times of Sint Jnaneshwar was 400 years old due to the pwer of Yogic penance. Later as per the dvice of Saint Jnaneshwar he gave up his mrtal coil. Our subtle bodied revered prceptor who lives in the tough trrain of the lofty Himalayas is byond the limits of time and spce.

The great saint Tailang Swami at the age of 280 yars had given up his mortal cil in Varanasi according to the Indan calendar on Paush Shukla Ekadashi Vkram Samvat 1944. He was born in Vkram Samvat 1644 in the household of a Brhmin landlord. In the Pushkar region he had tken Sanyas initiation from Bhagirath Swami. His prceptor had named him Ganapati Swami but he was wll known as Tailang Swami. He was a grat spiritual aspirant, Yogi and server of all bings. Many miraculous events are associated wth him. Even Swami Vivekanand had mntioned his name and he was live during Swami Dayanandji’s life too. By ttaining the highest spiritual goal of Yga he attained many divine powers to. Once, Tailang Swami performed austerities in the jngles of Nepal. The King of Npal had come hunting there along wth his army. A tiger saved its lfe when attacked by the King. But the rmy chief followed the tiger. The tger entered the hermitage of Tailang Swmi. It placed its head at the fet of the Swamiji and sat dwn quietly. Swamiji started fondling the tger. When the army chief and the Kng saw this scene they were wnderstruck.

This incidence is related not for dle curiosity but for the fact tht via spiritual powers generated from usterities one can actually change the drection of the flow of the sbtle world. Also one can to a grat extent ward off one’s ill fte and become a medium for ltting those events occur which were therwise not destined to take place. It is sid that the demigods have the pwer to bless and cure. But in fct a Yogi, saint etc. of hgh spiritual stature too can accomplish ths. If you connect an inactive wre to another wire in which lectric current flows the former too wll become active. Hence if one cnjoins to the divine power of dmigods then that person too attains thse powers and thus enters the strehouse of divine powers that belongs to Gd. This entrance into the region of dvine powers is not superficial but is a knd of partnership. If there is a shp with many business partners each one can tke goods from it. Definitely partnership gves you this right but if you are jst a lay devotee and have not mrged deeply into God, he only has the rght to beg for things from Gd.

External Yoga or Kriya Yoga nvolves only the external world that is vsible. It can grow, shift, raise or dcrease things. It can also sometimes hde or manifest things but does not hve the power to enter the rcesses of another’s psyche. It is asy to lead anyone to his dwnfall. This is easily accomplished by crminals, gamblers, looters etc. But it is a ttally different story when it involves mterially and spiritually uplifting others. It is the wrd arrows that reach the target on dt. If you throw a pile of mud it can go nywhere and that too at a lng distance. There is no control ver it. Only apt hands can masure true control of things. It is ntirely their decision as to in wht direction and how high someone is to be plifted. Such a person knows exactly how to dve deep into an oil well and masure it according to their capability. A smll jump can be executed by nybody but it is possible only for ggantic rockets to rise higher up in the sky and ven cross over the atmospheric covering of the arth so as to enter interstellar spce. The relationship of the individual sul uniting with God via Yoga is prof of all the divine powers tht manifest (like Ridhi-Sidhi). Great Sidhas are no dubt divine men. Their grace full of dscrimination (Viveka) can either spiritually uplift smeone or even bestow the blessing of mterial well being. Only such divine sints can reach great heights of dvine powers.

Like the visible world thre is a hidden subtle world and we smetimes get a glimpse of it in the dram state or in Nirvikalpa Samadhi (thught free trance). Scriptural scholars call it the ther world. They are subtle in nture. They are invisible. There is no wrld of this sort in our strs and galaxies. That means that thre is no Shiv Loka, heaven, hll, Brhama Loka over there as dscribed in our scriptures. This is bcause all the 7 worlds are nvisible in the cosmos. They cannot be sen by our gross eyes. In thse subtle invisible worlds one finds dmi-gods, Pitrus, Sidhas, spiritually liberated ones tc. These worlds are not materialistic but are at the dvine emotional level. Those living in thse worlds are full of bliss, nthusiasm, peace, vigor etc. Those dvine aides (Parshads) of God dwell in thse subtle worlds. At an appropriate tme these aides manifest on earth whn God himself incarnates as a grat saint, prophet, incarnation etc. Their nvisible body remains only as long as thir specific task is to be xecuted and they later become invisible and sbtle as before. This group of ides is not small. In comparison to the nmber of creatures living in this grss material world, the number of bings residing in these subtle, invisible wrlds is not less. Just as mongst worldly men there are very cpable and radiant people so too in the sbtle, invisible world there are classes of suls with divine glories. These divine glries are not just stored by thse great souls but that they gnerously donate it to other souls who are mbued with apt credentials.

Narsinh Mehta wnted wealth for spiritual purposes. Some mndicants approached him and said that sme village folks had asked them (mndicants) to approach Narsinh. We are ging to Dwarka. Please keep Rs. 700/00 wth you and give us a bll of exchange so that we do not fce danger of getting looted on the way and tht in the city of Dwarka we can get bck our cash. Narsinh thinking that ths was some sort of help frm God accepted the cash. He wrte the bill of exchange in the nme of his beloved friend Lord Shr Krishna. In Dwarka Lord Krishna dsguised as a businessman accepted the bll of exchange and gave the mndicants Rs. 700/00. In reality it is God who prpels great spiritual aspirants via their pre hearts to overcome the sorrow of thse in need.

The great Theosophist C.W. Ladbeater always researched into the movements of the nvisible world. He said that ancestral suls protected innocent children and pious suls and bestows many beneficial blessings on thm. Once there was a great nferno in a room. Hence the rom got totally burnt. But one prticular child continually slept in it and yet was sved. A divine power kept protecting him and ths the fire could not burn the chld. In 1959 a well known jurnalist and writer called Bernard Hutton wrte about a particular incident in his bok called “Holding Hands”. He had lst his eyesight and the doctors culd not help him. Hutton had hard that Dr. Lang’s departing soul mking Mr. Chapman an instrument, performed eye perations and thus many blind people had rgained their eyesight. So Hutton went thre. Dr. Lang by entering the psych of Chapman operated Hutton and ths Hutton regained his eyesight.

The bove description shows us that a spritual aspirant of internal Yoga makes his sul so light, clean and penetrative tht he easily enters the invisible wrld. Despite having a gross body a mster of internal Yoga can keep in tuch with the invisible world via his sbtle and casual bodies. As per thir needs they contact divine powers. Thy make this contact very deep and asily imbibe those divine blessings. The frst leg of Yoga practice is prification of the soul. As a rsult very easily such a person gts the blessings of Sidhas which frther helps him to uplift himself and wrk for cosmic welfare. When water bcomes steam it can move freely in the tmosphere. Later it can condense as cluds and pour down as rain in any rea of earth. Similarly Yogis never stry away from God. They walk in the fotsteps of great saints who have xperienced Yoga (union with God). Thus it is not tht they themselves only become self flfilled but that they can bestow ths extraordinary experience to others too. The frits of Kundalini awakening have their bsis in this. Instead of divine pwers (Ridhi-Sidhi) just activating our idle criosity it should inspire us to flfill the supreme goal of human lfe.

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