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lmaher22
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 Posted - Dec 30 2011 : 2:49:15 PM
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| I remember reading in "Autobiography of a Yogi", the Yogi saying that: anyone willing to spend three hours a day meditating can become enlightened. Is this true for everyone? Hard to believe? |
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FutureHumanDestiny
USA
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Posted - Dec 30 2011 : 3:07:41 PM
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it's true because it happened to me; working full time and meditating in the afternoon.
near the end, it took a slightly more epic effort to push past nirvikalpa.
but you can do it. remain strong, even stubborn in your search for god. your intensity of effort multiplies your meditative rewards. |
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lmaher22
USA
217 Posts |
Posted - Dec 30 2011 : 4:31:03 PM
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| Holy Moly, Future! It really happened to you? Amazing. May I ask how long it took and were you advanced before that? Were you an 'Old Soul' so to speak? Man, thanks for the insight. Could you please tell me what nirvikalpa is? |
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FutureHumanDestiny
USA
25 Posts |
Posted - Feb 13 2012 : 11:47:35 AM
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Originally posted by lmaher22
Holy Moly, Future! It really happened to you? Amazing. May I ask how long it took and were you advanced before that? Were you an 'Old Soul' so to speak? Man, thanks for the insight. Could you please tell me what nirvikalpa is?
sorry for the delay in getting back to you. i've been on internet hiatus.
in short, i am an old soul, well practiced and prepared for life. but i struggled as much with spirituality in this life as anyone else. it was not until i rejected much of what i had been taught AND made a sincere effort to become self aware (in the most simple and obvious ways possible) that i entertained any real results. in other words, the methods and the madness are the same for new souls as well as old, only well prepared souls are mature enough to react to adversity appropriately, if that makes any sense at all.
i explain most of my journey on my youtube channel, if you're interested; as well as my current stage of development and some of my current projects.
nirvikalpa is the higher state of samadhi. basically there are three stages of samadhi; self-absorption, god-self, no-self.
in the first stage (as i describe it: others describe it differently but the truth is the same), you will become vividly self aware; i.e. aware of your limbs, your hands, feet, your physical body. it's that simple: vividly aware of your body as it turns to light.
in the second stage (as i describe it), nirvikalpa samadhi or god-self, you will become vividly aware of anything you look at or think of. in fact, you will feel as if you are the thing you see or imagine. it's a bit like a LSD trip (not that i've ever taken LSD: i've only read about it) in that you perceive the world without boundaries or borders. you feel interconnection between everything.
in the final stage, less well known, you cease to exist. time, space and matter all seem to stop. past, now and future become indistinguishable to you. this stage is poorly understood and it's study consumes much of my time.
after that, is the mega-mystery: enlightenment.
hope that helps
lemme know if there's more.
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Etherfish
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Posted - Feb 13 2012 : 12:18:08 PM
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Just a note: Do not do AYP style meditation for three hours a day, as it will cause "overload".
That is Yogananda style meditation (as taught at SRF) that can be done three hours a day. |
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