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furcal101
Posted 2005-08-19 4:19 PM (#30076)
Subject: Yogic Flying


Hey I was wondsering if anyone knew how to do yogic flying and if they could try to explain it to me. I know its part of the TM program. I would really like to know how to do it so if anyone had any info that be great.

Thanks, mike
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GreenJello
Posted 2005-08-19 5:56 PM (#30079 - in reply to #30076)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying


I've heard different things, mostly anidontal evidence.  Generally I wouldn't worry about it too much.  If there is such a thing, then it's a siddhi, which means it's another distraction.  If it's not possible, then once again it's not something you should worry about.

As far as the TM guys go, they have a bad rep in some circles for faking various things.  The one that sticks in my mind is doctored photos of "levitating" yogis.  (Maybe this is what you mean by flying?)  Expert analysis of the photos has shown conclusively that they are in fact fakes.
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Bay Guy
Posted 2005-08-19 11:55 PM (#30084 - in reply to #30079)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying



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From what I've read about it, yogic flying is a glorified form of hopping...from
seated poses evidently.
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YogaGuy
Posted 2005-08-21 2:42 AM (#30107 - in reply to #30076)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying






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Bay Guy
Posted 2005-08-21 10:45 PM (#30140 - in reply to #30107)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying



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Location: A Blue State		Cool, Keith! That's you on the bottom, right? With the two girls on top... :lol:

Edited by Bay Guy 2005-08-21 10:46 PM
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richardjordan
Posted 2005-08-30 11:58 PM (#30635 - in reply to #30107)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying


Is this in Central Park or Prospect?
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YogaGuy
Posted 2005-08-31 10:46 AM (#30658 - in reply to #30076)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying


Central park. Yup that's me on bottom.
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itchytummy
Posted 2005-09-01 11:15 PM (#30776 - in reply to #30140)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying


Bay Guy - 2005-08-21 7:45 PM

Cool, Keith! That's you on the bottom, right? With the two girls on top...


You guys crack me up!

Hmmm...so YogaGuy likes to be "topped," huh?
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Thushara
Posted 2005-09-06 9:43 AM (#31100 - in reply to #30076)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying


furcal101 - 2005-08-20 3:19 AM

Hey I was wondsering if anyone knew how to do yogic flying and if they could try to explain it to me. I know its part of the TM program. I would really like to know how to do it so if anyone had any info that be great.

Thanks, mike


My view of flying yogis is different.. But you guys will not agree so I will not tell anything about that. In ancient times there has been flying yogis. I dont know whether you call them "Yogis" or what., basically they are the people who improved their mind and attained to a status which they have the total controll of their body and mind., When you attain the status "Arhath" it sais you can even be invisible and be visible again in another location.. I have read a loot in this and its not easy to explain it either.. Even I dont know whether I believe them 100% or not. So I would like to keep all of them to myself.

Have you ever thought of the concept behind data communication? How you send data and receive from another location..? Its amazing yeah? Do you believe that our thoughts can travel like that? Even the body can travel;


when soembody ask me about fying yogis .. I say.. yeah they are there in Matrix

Ohhh,,, Is that the Yoga guy ?????????????? hmmmm.. I thought Yoga guy looks like Brad Pitt

Edited by Thushara 2005-09-06 9:58 AM
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tourist
Posted 2005-09-06 10:29 AM (#31111 - in reply to #31100)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying



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I once knew and advanced TM practitioner who did the flying thing. His basement was wall to wall mattresses so he could do the "hopping" that I've seen on TV. Talk about a lot of yoga props!
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GreenJello
Posted 2005-09-06 1:07 PM (#31117 - in reply to #31111)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying


tourist - 2005-09-06 10:29 AMI once knew and advanced TM practitioner who did the flying thing. His basement was wall to wall mattresses so he could do the "hopping" that I've seen on TV. Talk about a lot of yoga props!


Sounds like fun!
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tourist
Posted 2005-09-06 7:13 PM (#31146 - in reply to #31117)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying



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Yeah - their kids had a lot of fun jumping around on them
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Thushara
Posted 2005-09-07 12:00 AM (#31157 - in reply to #31146)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying


No No tourist.. Yogic flying is not like Birdies.. Its like teleporting atoms and molecules sort of a thing. (Am I right ????? )

Edited by Thushara 2005-09-07 12:04 AM
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Thushara
Posted 2005-09-07 2:32 AM (#31160 - in reply to #31157)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying


I just lost my mind ???? Is it teleporting? or astroprojection or just flying lke a bird???

When I thought of Rev. Mihindu who brought buddhism to Sri Lanka (Who attained Asrhat state).. Its like teleporting .. but yogi's flying what people talk in the net is flying like a bird...

by the way I found this about 5th Siddhi

5. VAYU GAMAN SIDDHI

Through this Siddhi a person can become capable of flying in the skies and traveling from one place to another in just a few seconds. The Jain scriptures speak of Jain ascetics who could fly from place to place in a few seconds. Swami Divakarsuri and Swami Pragyasuri have been such accomplished ascetics. Although there are several occasions of individuals flying reported in the Sutras of classical Buddhism and Zen, the Venerable Pindola Bharadvaja is probably the person most commonly cited. For the movement or cross-transference of items between the conventional plane or physical plane and other possible environments see Apportation Revisited.

Swami Vishuddhanandji (d. 1937)(sometimes spelled: Vishuddhananda, Vishudhanandaaka; aka: Gandha Baba, Perfume Saint), well-known for his supernatural powers and said to be an adept associated with the mysterious Gyanganj (Jnanaganj) hermitage somewhere in Tibet -- a secret place of great masters -- demonstrated this practice in Varanasi and proved that it is not a myth.

Today Yogi Chaitanya Swami of Madurai and Yogi Niranjan Swami living near Kanya Kumari are the Yogis who have accomplished this practice. But it seems that this knowledge shall perish with them. See the Wanderling's Journey as well as The Sun Dagger and Carlos Castaneda.

Laghima Siddhi - The ability to make one's body lighter than air and fly at will. The perfection of this siddhi enables one to travel on the sun's rays and enter into the sun planet.

LAGHIMA: TO HAVE NO WEIGHT. Laghima is the control of the effect of the earth's attraction on the body by developing in each cell the opposite (centrifugal) tendency. Said to be implemented for the performed act of levitation, the Vayu Gaman Siddhi and the Laghima Siddhi. According to one of the eighteen main Puranas, the Markandeya Purana, Laghima means "to have an extreme speed."

And there were few more articles I found such as . "Do you think flying in the sky is magical?
I will show you some spectacular acts."

Thats some thing related to Zen Buddhism I think. which I have noi clue about

Before I go cracked I better get back to some other work..
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tourist
Posted 2005-09-07 10:23 AM (#31173 - in reply to #31160)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying



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Thushara - I htink when the Transcendental Meditation people talk about yogic flying, they mean levitation rather than teleporting. They are attempting to move the physical body off the earth a few feet, not teleporting or astral projecting. I was amazed at how much of that stuff Paramahansa Yogananda talked about in Autobiography of a Yogi. His gurus seemed to like astral travel!
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Bay Guy
Posted 2005-09-07 10:33 PM (#31219 - in reply to #31173)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying



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Well, once a yogi develops Siddhis, almost anything is possible,
including what amounts to teleportation. There's a long section on
it in the Siva Purana.
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Thushara
Posted 2005-09-07 10:42 PM (#31221 - in reply to #31117)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying


anya sharvani - 2005-09-08 9:45 PM
Also sounds like a mental hospital!! : )


Also Sounds like you are the very 1st Patient !


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Thushara
Posted 2005-09-07 10:44 PM (#31223 - in reply to #31219)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying


Bay Guy - 2005-09-08 9:33 AM


Well, once a yogi develops Siddhis, almost anything is possible,
including what amounts to teleportation. There's a long section on
it in the Siva Purana.


BG, Whats Siva Purna? Ok these days some how I try to find some time to read about Siddhis, And I would like to know more.
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anya sharvani
Posted 2005-09-07 11:08 PM (#31229 - in reply to #31221)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying


Thushara - 2005-09-07 10:42 PM
anya sharvani - 2005-09-08 9:45 PM Also sounds like a mental hospital!! : )
Also Sounds like you are the very 1st Patient !

Hey!!!

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Thushara
Posted 2005-09-08 6:30 AM (#31245 - in reply to #31219)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying


You got to be kidding.. I love to have supernatural powers ... WOOOWWWW I will t-port myself everywhere and no body will be able to catch me... YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING GREEN JELLO You dont have to be in loong ques for flights and eat those yackky food., you dont have to drive ....and get stuck in the traffic... OMG can you just imagine....

Edited by Thushara 2005-09-08 6:32 AM
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tourist
Posted 2005-09-08 10:12 AM (#31257 - in reply to #31245)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying



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GJ The Siddhis are distractions!! Focus, people!
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tourist
Posted 2005-09-09 10:38 AM (#31366 - in reply to #31257)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying



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VERY wise words
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Thushara
Posted 2005-09-14 5:50 AM (#31800 - in reply to #31257)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying


tourist - 2005-09-09 9:12 PM

GJ The Siddhis are distractions!! Focus, people!


I think Siddhis are value additions than distractions You get it free when you attained "Arhath" state
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Cyndi
Posted 2005-09-14 9:07 AM (#31814 - in reply to #31800)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying



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Location: Somewhere in the Mountains of Western NC		This came from an article by Swami Jyotirmayananda, International Yoga Guide, Aug. 2005

He says;

By practicing certain forms of Samyama, a yogi can acquire various psychic powers such as materialization and dematerialization of the body, levitation, thought reading, extra-sensory perception, invisibility of the body, and many miraculous powers that are inconceivable to the normal mind.

However, if a yogi becomes interested in these psychic powers or siddhis, he deviates from the path leading to Liberation. Further, if he lacks vairagya or dispassion, he may become vain and deluded because of his psychic powers. And then, by the misuse of psychic powers, he falls from the lofty ideals of Yoga.

Patanjali Maharshi says, "These siddhis are obstacles to the attainment of the highest samadhi because they continue to externalize the mind." On the other hand, one ascends the heights of samadhi and ultimately attains Liberation.
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Thushara
Posted 2005-09-14 9:47 AM (#31818 - in reply to #31814)
Subject: RE: Yogic Flying


Read this article..

Stage One Yogic Flying can be described as ‘hopping
like a frog’. Stage Two is flying through the air for a
short time. Stage Three is complete mastery of the
sky. Jackie Stevens investigates the mystic practice..................

http://www.kindredspirit.co.uk/articles/pdf6708-Yogic-Flying.pdf

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When the time came for us to learn to levitate, none of us really believed we would do it. I knew intellectually that levitation was humanly possible and I was hopeful I would be able to do it...........

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewcolumn.php?id=36





Edited by Thushara 2005-09-14 9:49 AM
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