Date Posted:01:26:02 06/09/08 Mon Author: Paul Subject: Re: Spiritual Awakening In reply to:
Michael
's message, "Spiritual Awakening" on 10:40:20 06/05/08 Thu
There have been some interesting experiments in sensory deprivation tanks. After a person is cut off from all outside stimuli for a few hours, they begin to hallucinate big time. I wonder if this isn't what happens to a yogi practitioner?
>Well here is a topic very close to my heart, so I
>offer it up and then stand well back.
>
>A teacher (Yogi) who I have huge respect for is coming
>to London soon for a week. I beleive him to be fully
>Self Realised. (Still reading? not choked on your
>breakfast yet? OK)
>
>What is Self Realisation? For 5 years he never left
>his room, sitting for an average of 20 hours per day
>in meditation. As a child he was very quiet, always
>seeking temples to sit and meditate in. Once he became
>adult he went and lived in a small ashram (sort of
>like a monastery) and for 20 years simply served,
>doing all tasks given to him to do by his Guru (who
>only visited the ashram for about 3 months of the
>year).
>At the end of his 5 years his mind became still, and
>he realised that actually this whole Universe -
>everything in it, and the space that contains it, is
>in fact God or the Infinite Consciousness.
>
>Well, what do you think of that then?
>
>:-)
