Friends, many things in the Puranas do not appear to be true in physical form, but they provide benefits to people, that is, they move them forward on the path of spirituality. Of course with the side effect that they can also be physically disorienting. The proof of my point is that the scriptures themselves have said that speak the truth but do not speak the bitter truth, meaning clearly that whatever brings sweetness in people’s lives i.e. spiritual development, but is undoubtedly like a lie or having double meaning, speak it. For example, in the scriptures, the faults of women are mentioned somewhere, so that there is no excessive sexual feeling or lust towards women, as is often the case, because excess is bad everywhere. In one such story, a woman of bad character and engaged in prostitution tells about this when asked by Shri Narad. She leaves no stone unturned in highlighting the shamelessness of women, which further strengthens Narad’s hatred towards women in his mind. He was a sannyasi and wanted to hear the same so that he could raise his harp of renunciation even higher. It is possible, that woman may have considered all women to be equal to herself. To a thief everyone seems to be a thief. Similarly, there is often low value for freebies. That is why there are many descriptions in Hindu religion that taking donations by Brahmins or Babas is acceptable. Of course, it is said in the scriptures that whatever is received without asking or demanding for it, a Brahmin should accept it. Also, in the scriptures it is said that by donating various things to Brahmins, one can get various worldly and transcendental fruits. This too is also a demand, of course with discipline, sociability and cleverness, but there have been many misuses of it too. It is my own experience that giving donations to a deserving Brahmin gives such results, but these have been greatly exaggerated. The simple thing is that real Brahmins remain ready to attain Brahmagyan or have attained it. It is possible that by donating to them one gets the fruit of Brahmagyan. Helping a reader inspires reading, helping a singer inspires singing, and helping someone with spiritual knowledge inspires one to attain spiritual knowledge. Simple. Brahma has been found, means everything has been found. Now, whatever you can imagine equivalent to attaining Brahm, like getting the ownership of the infinite universe, getting the position of the king of heaven, getting the entire kingdom or getting the position of Lord Vishnu etc. etc., that all is okay. There is no end to such fantasies. But I like sharing knowledge by a Karmayogi the most. A Karma Yogi does not need to take donations or anything else in return because he has already received enough through his Karma Yoga. Raja Janak is the biggest example of this, who along with being a honoured king was also a supreme yogi.
Similarly, most of the supernatural achievements also seem like white lies or sweet lies. If Yogis had so many supernatural powers, our nation would never have been under the trap of enemies or never have been in poverty. Here every person was a yogi. If the Yogis had the ability to travel through the sky or through the air, they would have flown over the enemy armies and destroyed them from the sky itself. In reality, this accomplishment is symbolic and experiential, not physical or real. The yogi keeps moving air in and out of the body all the time with full attention and rhythm, like a fish living in water moves water. When a fish doing this is seen moving in the water, similarly, a yogi doing the same but with the air can be understood as moving in the air or in the sky. It is possible that such an experience may occur in advanced yoga practice, but it will not be that he will start flying in the air. I also have many dreams that I am flying in the sky like a bird. It feels like a real flight, brother, and it is a lot of fun too. One feels as if such flight was possible even while awake, but it is not so. This experience occurs due to the effect of yoga and pranayam. But these experiences also have the disadvantage that most people consider them to be everything and start deviating from the main goal of awakening.
Its amazing what specific kundalini meditation can do for you. First time saddhana ever for me and after 2h30 long and deep ek ong kar and I went through some new experiences during that meditation. Fly? I am not sure of it even though there are some meditations for levitation. I dont know any in kundalini though.
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