| From time immemorial it has been known that | | | | so nice. Where can I get some more? "Go, |
| some people, Yogis, Gurus, Shamen, Priests, | | | | work, earn money, go to the shop and buy it. |
| Saints, Paramahamsas, Buddhas, Christs, have | | | | I just give you a taste; then you have to |
| evolved to a state of high energy. | | | | work for it. |
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| These pure and good people, wanting benefit | | | | Sri Ramakrishna had several thousand |
| and happiness for all, without a trace of | | | | disciples but he didn't give all of them even |
| selfishness and competition have been known | | | | that little taste Vivekananda got. So the |
| to have psychic powers. | | | | student should have the proper qualifications |
| | | | for such an experience. |
| Their search for energy and goodness has | | | | |
| precipitated within them the next stage of | | | | Otherwise, if it is just that easy |
| human evolution. | | | | Ramakrishna could have just touched everybody |
| | | | and said, "Come on, everybody is a |
| For thousands of years they have been Good | | | | Ramakrishna now. Finished. He was not really |
| Doctors, Good Priests, founders of religion, | | | | stingy. He could have done that to a thousand |
| Philosophic Geniuses, Advisors of Kings, | | | | people. Why should he do it to only one, |
| Musical Geniuses, Poets, Makers of the Law. | | | | Vivekananda? |
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| For thousands of years these people, wielding | | | | That is the proof that there are certain |
| amazing Siddhis or Psychic powers, have been | | | | qualifications necessary in the disciple even |
| recorded as healing of the sick, casting out | | | | to perceive something like that. |
| mental sickness, coming in dreams, | | | | |
| communicating through telepathy, the | | | | The Scriptures say that there are three aids |
| radiation of specialised energies, leaving | | | | to realize the Truth: the Scriptures |
| the body, entering into the body of another, | | | | themselves, the Guru, and your spiritual |
| astral travel, telling the future, acting at | | | | practice. The Scriptures tell you that sugar |
| a distance, raising Kundalini, Shaktipat, the | | | | is sweet. The Guru will show you that sugar. |
| ability to pass healing into amulets, | | | | Your practice will give you the taste. The |
| temples, places of peace, pilgrimage sites, | | | | Guru will not put the sugar in his mouth and |
| creating miracles, birds and beasts come to | | | | say, "It is very sweet. You have to taste it |
| them in peace. | | | | yourself. Even if you open your mouth and he |
| | | | puts the sugar in, if your tongue is totally |
| Of this disciple Ramakrishna eagerly asked | | | | coated, you can't taste it. It will be bitter |
| when he first saw him, "Tell me, do you see a | | | | to you. So you have to clean your tastebuds. |
| light above your head when you are going to | | | | That is the reason we say the disciple must |
| sleep?" "Doesn't everyone?" asked the boy, in | | | | be fit to know the taste. |
| wonder. He had indeed a consciousness of | | | | |
| light so great, high up the antahkarana, that | | | | How many people were able to perceive Jesus |
| he took it for granted that someone had | | | | Christ when he ascended? Only the very few |
| placed a bright lamp above his head. This man | | | | who really had that faith and devotion. So a |
| was the well-known student of Ramakrishna, | | | | good student needs a lot of sincerity, purity |
| Swami Vivekananda. | | | | of heart and devotion - even to get a little |
| | | | glimpse. And even then, that just becomes a |
| Vivekananda asked Ramakrishna, "What proofs | | | | kind of small incentive to work with. |
| are there of God's existence?" | | | | |
| | | | The shaktipat, the radiation of psychic |
| And Ramakrishna said, "I am." | | | | energies by the enlightened can awaken these |
| | | | abilities in all who come to them. This has |
| A strange answer. Vivekananda had not | | | | been known and recorded in the Sacred |
| expected that answer. You also would not have | | | | literature for thousands of years. |
| expected it, because when somebody is asking | | | | |
| for a proof of God, then there are | | | | Indeed, some sacred literature states that |
| traditional, philosophical proofs. One | | | | only by access to the energies of the |
| expects those proofs. Vivekananda must have | | | | Masters, can enlightenment be passed on. |
| been thinking Ramakrishna would say, | | | | |
| "Everything needs a creator. The world is, | | | | The search for this next step in evolution |
| therefore there must be a creator. We may be | | | | comes from the enhancement, the increase, of |
| able to see him or not, but the creator must | | | | energy. |
| be there because the world is." | | | | |
| | | | As fire is spread from candle to candle. As |
| But no, Ramakrishna didn't say anything like | | | | the sacred word resonates in both he who |
| that. He was not a philosopher: he was a | | | | gives and he who receives. As Grace dropeth |
| Sufi. He said, "I am! Look at me. feel me! Go | | | | as the gentle dew from Heaven, twice |
| into me! I can take you into that reality | | | | blessed.. So a preparation of he who |
| that you are calling God. What name you give | | | | receives, the student, the candle, by the |
| to it is irrelevant. I have been to those | | | | removal of Negative Energy, Energy Blockages, |
| heights -- I can lead the way for you too. | | | | a lack of Energy Blockages allows more |
| Are you ready to come with me?" | | | | Spiritual Energy to be absorbed and used to |
| | | | crystalise, complete, finalise, create the |
| Vivekananda was not prepared. He had come to | | | | Spiritual Body of another Master, another |
| argue. But this is not an argument. This is | | | | transmitter of the Truth! |
| going to be risky, to follow this madman. One | | | | |
| can never be certain where he will lead you. | | | | They say that Masters represents infinite |
| | | | power through a complete loss of the selfish |
| Vivekananda hesitated. And Ramakrishna said, | | | | ego - When the robe was touched no credit was |
| "Before you ask a question, you should be | | | | claimed by the wearer, It was your faith |
| ready to receive the answer! Are you a coward | | | | which healed you! said the Master - and so |
| or something? Why did you ask in the first | | | | the truism, It takes two to Tango, - the |
| place?" And Ramakrishna jumped -- he was that | | | | student must be purified and prepared by |
| kind of madman, -- and he hit Vivekananda | | | | evolution and spiritual practice to accept |
| with his feet on his chest, and Vivekananda | | | | the Force, the Energy transmitted by the |
| fell into Samadhi. | | | | Master. |
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| When after one hour he woke up, he was a | | | | All energy blockages stopping the flow of |
| transformed man. He bowed down, touched the | | | | energy through the system and preventing the |
| feet of Ramakrishna, and said, "Excuse me, I | | | | buildup of psychic power in the system must |
| am sorry. It was so childish of me to ask | | | | be removed. |
| such a question. It is not a question -- it | | | | |
| is an adventure. And thank you! You have | | | | Thus we learn and practice Yoga, Pranayama, |
| given me a taste of something of which I was | | | | Meditation, Samadhi, Samyama, the Kundalini |
| not aware at all." | | | | Kriyas, Chinese Alchemical Taoism and the |
| | | | Micro and Macrocosmic Orbits, VITRIOL and The |
| Yes, he did transmit something. But if you | | | | Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus, The |
| read further into the same story, Vivekananda | | | | Grounding of Negative Energies, The Yoga |
| could not retain the experience. Ramakrishna | | | | Sutras of Patanjali, Raja Yoga and the |
| just gave him a little nibble. Then he said, | | | | Eighteen Classical Yogas of the Bhagavad |
| "Don't depend on my touch every time. Now you | | | | Gita. |
| know there is something beyond; work it out | | | | |
| yourself." Then it took many years for | | | | Thus the torch is passed on from Master to |
| Vivekananda to get that experience again. | | | | Student. |
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| Ramakrishna gave even that little experience | | | | Another candle is lighted up! |
| to him because Vivekananda was fit for it. | | | | |
| Still, he said, "This is borrowed. I'm giving | | | | And Masters have existed in every time |
| you a sample. It's something like if I am | | | | period. |
| chewing some nice candy and you come along | | | | |
| and say, "Hey, what is that? "Candy. "Ah, can | | | | They exist Now!! |
| I try some? "Okay, a little piece. "Ah, it's | | | | |