Meditation and Psychic Powers, Shaktipat, Kundalini Kriyas, Siddhis, Enlightenment and Ramakrishna 2

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