Mastery of the vital energy involved in gastric fire creates a aura that glows like a blazing fire.
When the vital force which maintains equilibrium and which fills the entire body with light, life and power, is directly perceived and understood, there is effulgence and radiance of one’s personality .
Vibhuti Pada 42
Samyama on the relationship between space and sound. By restraining hearing one learns to hear divine sounds.
By the practice of the threefold discipline on the relation between space, as the medium of sound, and the sense of hearing, supernatural hearing is gained (since the flow of sound-waves is identical with ether or space).
Vibhuti Pada 43
Relationship between the physical body and body of ether is known. This physical body can be constrained in order for the body of ether to become light like a cotton fiber. It can then move through space.
When the threefold inner discipline is directed towards the relationship between the body and the space in which it moves, and when there is contemplation of the weightlessness of cotton, the body acquires the quality of weightlessness and moves in space with ease.
Vibhuti Pada 44
The veil of energy obstruction caused by the perception of separation dissolves completely. Consciousness can now move beyond the body.
Beyond all these is the state of consciousness which is not the product of thought: and that is the cosmic intelligence which is independent of the body (or bodies - physical, astral and causal}. By the practice of the threefold discipline upon that, the veil that covers that light of cosmic intelligence is removed.
Vibhuti Pada 45
Samyama on gross and light forms leads to knowledge of their purpose. In restraining the gross bodies interactions in certain ways a mastery is gained over the elements.
By the practice of the threefold discipline on the gross (tangible, with form) and the subtle (intangible, formless), and their conjunction, and the direct perception of their apparently substantial nature, there arises the perfect understanding of the elements that constitute that existence.
Vibhuti Pada 46
From this perfection of the body manifests, obstructions disappear. More powers surface.
Vibhuti Pada 47
A graceful attractive form, charm, beauty, great strength and firmness is perfection in body.
What constitutes perfection of the body? Beauty, grace, strength, and adamantine firmness .
Vibhuti Pada 48
The power of understanding true form. The need for restraint in the ego and the senses yet understanding their purpose. This is the conquest.
By the practice of the threefold discipline on the sense-functions (their action, their characteristics, their fragmentary nature, their mutual relationship, and their substance or their meaningfulness in relation to the indwelling intelligence on account of which alone they are able to function) comes their total understanding and true mastery over them.
Vibhuti Pada 49
Then a sharpness of mind comes due to it unbinding of the senses and their not interfering with the purity if spirit in expression.
When such understanding has been gained, the senses function with the speed of the mind, and there is direct perception without the need of intermediary instruments (even the sense organs) and the realization of oneness with the entire cosmic nature.
Vibhuti Pada 50
When knowledge has been successfully understood and the necessary discrimination applied a pure illuminative state of the soul manifests. All is then known.
The direct realization of the independence of the indwelling intelligence from the mind, that is from the conditions to which the psychic and the physical nature is subject, brings with it superintendence over all states of being, an omniscience.
Vibhuti Pada 51
In destroying the seeds of bondage and being unattached to the powers that manifest we can progress to the ultimate emancipated states of Yoga.
When there is no craving or attraction even for such supremacy and for such omniscience, all of which suggest a division in consciousness, and when the sense of duality which is the seed for imperfection, impurity, or conditioned existence ceases, there is total freedom and a direct realization of the indivisibility and hence the in-dependence of intelligence.
Vibhuti Pada 52
Summons to respectful status and higher ranks manifests as a result of the knowledge of samyama. This may stimulate surprise and joy. An effort must be made to still any attachment.
Invitations that involve the demonstration of such powers or of the characteristics of enlightenment, even when extended by those in authority whether on earth or in heaven are summarily rejected without being swayed by attachment or even curiosity. Otherwise, undesirable consequences may arise again, by the revival of duality, superiority, hope and despair, etc.
Vibhuti Pada 53
Samyama on sequences of events in relation to time manifests knowledge.
Undistracted by these, one should proceed to transcend time . By the practice of the three-fold discipline in relation to the truth of the moment, without the interference of thought which creates the false sequence of time, there arises understanding which is born of the faculty to perceive the false as false and hence truth as truth.
Vibhuti Pada 54
Then knowledge comes regarding that which seems to be of similar origin and form but has hidden properties that differentiate it.
From such understanding flows knowledge or the natural ability to distinguish between reality and appearance, even where they do not have other obvious distinguishing marks related to their species, characteristics and location and hence seem to be similar. The possibility of confusion is thus completely overcome.
Vibhuti Pada 55
In this way all is known even that which is unrelated and unaffected by time.
Such wisdom born of intuitive and immediate understanding is the sole redeemer. It is everything. It has everything. It encompasses everything. It is the unconditioned and undivided intelligence spontaneously functioning from moment to moment in the eternal now, without sequential relationship.
Vibhuti Pada 56
Perfect freedom occurs when pure consciousness and the purity of soul become equal.
When there is pure equilibrium which is non-division between the indwelling consciousness and all (objective) existence, between the non-moving intelligence and the ever-moving phenomena, between the unconditioned awareness and the rise and fall of the "The thousand thoughts" - there is freedom and independence of the infinite.
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