Questioner: I understand that freedom from the elements is more important than mastery. But something I always wondered about is levitation. Is it really possible for yogis to do this? Or is it a myth? If it is possible, can you explain how it happens? And can you levitate, Sadhguru?
Sadhguru: (Laughs) Is it possible? It is possible. How does it happen? There are certain ways through which you become less and less available to gravity. There are pracitices - kriyas - through which this can happen. Because of this, one may levitate; it is possible. Or, when your kundalini rises with tremendous force, you may not levitate, but you can see your body just taking off by itself and landing. It does not stay up there, but it takes off and lands, takes off and lands. With my own eyes I have seen people in cross-legged positions cover fifty to sixty feet in one leap. Just one leap! There are those who could win an Olympic gold medal in long jump, just sitting. With a little effort when the energy is high. it happens.
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There are many ways you can make yourself less available to gravity. Can I do it? I want to walk on the planet. I have no intention of floating! Certainly there are people who follow the path of hata yoga who can do these feats. It is of no life-significance. Now, if you float or if you levitate for a few minutes in a day, in what way does it alter your life?
Our whole effort here is to make sure that you walk through life very much on the ground. It is to make sure that you can walk through life. No matter what happens with your life, no matter what kind of situations you face, you go through life untouched, like a child, as if you are just born. Howerer many things happen in you life, it does not matter. Even if everything goes dead wrong and every day is a crisis, you still go untouched through life. This is a miracle. I want all of you to perform this miracle. On your deathbed, if you are the way you were when you were just born, that means you have performed a wonderful miracle. It is possible. An that is the miracle we are interested in.
Floating in the air, walking upon the water - what will you do with it? For three days if you walk upon the water, it will be fine when you get all the attention. But every day if you start walking on the water, nobody will look at you. They will all take out their speed boats, and then you will also wish you had one. isn't it?
-Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Of Mystics & Mistakes
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ZRSRmlukjewC&pg=PT40&lpg=PT40&dq=sadhguru+levitation&source=bl&ots=QpsDEHn_KM&sig=zpo3BBmXtI7UIVg_u8Rd-pRJQKc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hnRrUd-0IYmYrgfDroHAAw&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBA
Sadhguru: (Laughs) Is it possible? It is possible. How does it happen? There are certain ways through which you become less and less available to gravity. There are pracitices - kriyas - through which this can happen. Because of this, one may levitate; it is possible. Or, when your kundalini rises with tremendous force, you may not levitate, but you can see your body just taking off by itself and landing. It does not stay up there, but it takes off and lands, takes off and lands. With my own eyes I have seen people in cross-legged positions cover fifty to sixty feet in one leap. Just one leap! There are those who could win an Olympic gold medal in long jump, just sitting. With a little effort when the energy is high. it happens.
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There are many ways you can make yourself less available to gravity. Can I do it? I want to walk on the planet. I have no intention of floating! Certainly there are people who follow the path of hata yoga who can do these feats. It is of no life-significance. Now, if you float or if you levitate for a few minutes in a day, in what way does it alter your life?
Our whole effort here is to make sure that you walk through life very much on the ground. It is to make sure that you can walk through life. No matter what happens with your life, no matter what kind of situations you face, you go through life untouched, like a child, as if you are just born. Howerer many things happen in you life, it does not matter. Even if everything goes dead wrong and every day is a crisis, you still go untouched through life. This is a miracle. I want all of you to perform this miracle. On your deathbed, if you are the way you were when you were just born, that means you have performed a wonderful miracle. It is possible. An that is the miracle we are interested in.
Floating in the air, walking upon the water - what will you do with it? For three days if you walk upon the water, it will be fine when you get all the attention. But every day if you start walking on the water, nobody will look at you. They will all take out their speed boats, and then you will also wish you had one. isn't it?
-Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Of Mystics & Mistakes
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ZRSRmlukjewC&pg=PT40&lpg=PT40&dq=sadhguru+levitation&source=bl&ots=QpsDEHn_KM&sig=zpo3BBmXtI7UIVg_u8Rd-pRJQKc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hnRrUd-0IYmYrgfDroHAAw&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBA
I have just learned padmasana and I am starting to begin my spiritual journey and I want to learn to levitate not to show off but for my own spiritual growth how will I do this?
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