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