--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am with you, Hermanitor. > > Until someone demonstrates hovering they should not try to teach > about enlightenment or religion. > > Although I have seen big unathletic geeky ungainly blokes doing > yogic hopping in such an amazingly effortless and almost floating > way (and long jumps for 20 or 30 minutes) that it becomes impossible > not to believe that there is something to it, that must be > important. It is uncanny what I saw in England many times. This one > unathletic big galoot of a guy, hopping effortlessly and big jumps, > giggling, and almost oblivious to the act of hopping, the whole time > for 20-30 minutes. > > OffWorld
Hi, hovering has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is an indication of a clear channel within the human nervous system, though not an indicator of Self Realization. Whether or not we can manifest results of the Patanjali Yoga sutras or not has nothing to do with the complete freedom and lack of boundaries that we live when Self Realization dawns. The sutras are indications of the clarity needed to live an enlightened state and indications of good progress to that end. But they are not indications of enlightenment. >From my own experience I used to have excellent results with many sutras, and I was definitely not Self-Realized! So perhaps this is why the common expression associated with the Yoga Sutras is that they can be a distraction. In other words, the waking state mind finds them flashy and tangible, and may be distracted from its one pointed focus on Self Realization.
