--- In [email protected], "Marek Reavis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> The story of The One Hundred Rudras in the Yoga Vasishta is a
> delightful, mobius strip-like exposition of how human experience
> creates and accomodates "changes" through time and space. I'm sure
> you've probably read it in the past.
I was intrigued by your description and went
looking on the Web for the story. The only
thing I could find was what follows, on the Web
site of one Swami Shyamendra. I assume it's the
story you're referring to; I found this rendition
of it delightful. (I thought the Swami's whole
Web site was charming. I had never heard of him.
He must have some sort of organization, but it
looks to me as though he wrote most of the content
himself.)
I've quoted just the story itself; it's
preceded and followed by explanations and
elaborations.
Ecstacy of Just Being Myself?
YOGA VASISTHA Vol II
by Swami Shyam Paramahansa
SECTION 2
THE STORY OF JHIWAT
A monk was practicing Yoga.
Systematically he succeeded to master states of non-
violence, non-falsehood, non-sensationalism, non-alluring and non-
possessiveness of mind.
He mastered then inner and outer cleanliness,
contentment, austerity, study of scriptures and abiding by the will
of the cosmic.
Then he mastered pyramidical posture, then balanced prana
and prana airs.
Then he disconnected the urges of senses from their
moorings towards their objects.
Then he focused concentration, then penetrated deeper
recesses of his consciousness crossing all the way from sub,
unconscious and deeper unconscious to the state of Mystica
Trancensia. He enjoyed it so much. He stayed on that ascended state
of timeless, breathless and bodiless state of relaxation longer and
longer. When he descended down back to body consciousness he
strolled around, ate something, smelled some flowers growing outside,
then entered into the state of trance again. A long time passed.
Then one day some visitors came. They left a book of
someone's autobiography in the cottage. Before going to rest he read
the book and entered in sleep. His system was so clean, whatever he
thought reflected in and through his mind all the way. His name
became Jhivat in his dream. He was both a drunkard and serviceful
man to the wise men. After service he drank his favorite Double
Scotch and slept. In dream he became a bramhin. He studied the
scriptures well and became an evangelist and began preaching the word
of God. Exhausted one day after long hours of giving a sermon and
collecting enormous amounts of tithings he slept, while still
counting all the dollar bills. In dream he became a President of
United States of America and began making his army bases in every
third world country and almost buying them.
He slept again one night in his White House and saw
another dream in which he had become the most prosperous President of
the world. He was successfully able to place electrodes in the skull
of governing leaders of every nation of the world. And sitting in
the White House in a huge laboratory with a group of scientists, he
began operating the brains of every leader of the world. One day a
most beautiful lady from Moscow came to visit him. In the White
House they dined together. Music played. After everybody left they
retired to the bedroom where they fell in love and made love
together. Both together, embraced, fell asleep.
He entered then in another dream. He had become a most
beautiful woman, a nymph in heaven. There he grew up as a dancer.
While dancing her eyes met with one of her audience who was a very
handsome angel. After dance he rushed onto the stage and took her in
his warm embrace. They married and started living happily. Then one
evening they went for a walk in a picturesque garden. From there in
a computer they saw all the most beautiful gardens of the earth.
Together they started visiting the planet earth in their well built
flying saucer. Kashmir, Switzerland, Disneyland, Vedaland, Niagra
Falls, they traveled, strolled, sported and played music.
One day she saw a wonderful golden deer. Large eyes
charmed her and she took her to her planet as her pet. She kept her
in the next room. She slept in the night with her angel husband and
saw a dream in which she became a deer. She was wandering forest to
forest in lush, green grass and trees surrounded with vines blooming
with flowers. Seeing these she slept and saw herself being a bumble
bee humming around the flowers. Then she saw herself being a lotus
flower. One day an elephant came and ate the lotus. Then lotus
became an elephant in next life. Rushing towards his girlfriend he
fell in a ditch and was beaten by hunters so much that he swooned and
saw in dream he became a creeper. A swan came from somewhere and ate
it. Then becoming a swan he started swimming in Manasarovar lake.
One day he heard about Bramha. He wanted to become his
vehicle swan. Then as water becomes a wave he became a swan of
Bramha and began carrying him to all different planets of the three
worlds. Then Bramha one day initiated him into the wisdom of
Absolute Truth and he entered into deep meditation. He became
enlightened.
Then one day that swan was flying around Himalayas and he
felt, I must become Lord of yogis--Shiva. And he became Shiva.
Being Lord Shiva he then peeped in and saw all his former bodies
sleeping and was highly surprised to see that he suffered out of
illusion just for nothing. He decided to go to each of them and wake
them up. He stood up, rose into the sky and flew. He arrived to the
spot where the monk was resting. He woke him up. Monk was highly
surprised and happy to see that Lord Shiva himself came to give him
his darshan. He felt there are more of me. Now they both proceeded
further. They arrived at the place of Jhiwat. His body laying like
a corpse, wine pots lying all around. They awoke him too. He was
happy to be awakened before too late to go to work and fishing. He
too felt there is more of his parts.
They went further, arrived at the sea beach residence of
the evangelist where on the heap of a billion dollars, project maps
and documents of a new Biblical University were lying around. They
awoke him. Arrived at the White House, then awoke Mr. President.
Then all the five people came to the new bedroom of Mr. President.
He got up and joined them. They went to the heaven in the home of
the wife of an angel, woke her too. They all began to feel the
entire universe is myself, and all these bodies and suffering I went
through were in vain. And we are in ourself pure consciousness.
Their bodies were separate. Activities too different but decision
was one single piece. Their name became one hundred Rudras.
http://www.swamishyam.org/Yoga-Vasistha-2/YOGA-V_1.HTM
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