To: K-list
Recieved: 2003/04/16 12:09
Subject: RE: [K-list] Yoga Kundalini Upanishad - in English
From: Bhavin Desai
On 2003/04/16 12:09, Bhavin Desai posted thus to the K-list:
Eki,
I ask you once again: was it actually flying or was it just "flying"?
Bhavin.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: E. A. H. [mailto:ekiheik AT_NOSPAM dwp.net]
> Sent: 14 April 2003 20:08
> To: bhavin.desai AT_NOSPAM ntlworld.com
> Subject: RE: [K-list] Yoga Kundalini Upanishad - in English
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> >Eki,
> >
> >The following book is authoritative and definitive regarding
Kundalini
> >Yoga. It contains "Yoga Kundalini Upanishad" (either scroll down the
> >contents list to the last major section in the html version or start
> >from page 103 in the pdf version):
> >
> >"KUNDALINI YOGA" by Sri Swami Sivananda:
> >http://www.thedivinelifesociety.org/download/kundalini.htm (PDF
format
> >is also available)
> >
> >Regarding your reference to "having done TM-siddhis, like Yogic
Flying"
> >do you mean merely hopping around in Padmasana (Lotus Position) on a
> >mattress (as reported on many TV/media programmes)? Or do you really
> >mean to refer to the Eight Siddhis and Nine Niddhis which are the
> >classical Yogic Powers? In my experience, those masters who have the
> >powers do not generally speak about them, even to their students.
> >
> >Jack.
> >
> >
>
> Hi, Jack,
>
> Thanks for the link, that's exactly what I've been looking for. As to
the
> siddhis, I think the Eight Siddhis are sometimes called "mahaasiddhis"
> (great siddhis: e.g. laghima, garima, mahima, anima etc). But the
> "supernatural" powers in Patañjali's Yogasuutras , in the third book,
> called "vibhuuti-paada", are also called siddhis. One of them is
> the one which in TM is called "yogic flying". In Sanskrit it seems
> to be called "aakaasha-gamanam". Some of Patañjali's siddhis
> are concerned with the cakras , like for instance :
>
> naabhi-cakre kaaya-vyuuha-jñaanam (navel-cakra = maNipuuraka?)
>
> regards,
> eki
>
>
>
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