While H G Wells wrote a work of fiction titled The Invisible Man, Maharshi Patanjali has actually written of a technique by which one can make the body invisible.
This yogic practice makes it possible to appear and disappear. By concentrating, meditating and resting the mind in the body, the yogi stops the power of light being discharged by the body from entering his own eyes. When the course of the reflective light is stopped, the body disappears from the vision.
This is practised in front of a mirror by looking at one’s image.Whatever is happening around us soon stops registering within. When that happens it is as good as one’s image not being reflected in the mirror. This practice can make us experience with clarity that we are not this body.
With constant practice, the consciousness of a physical form vanishes for the sadhaka. This invisibility of the body experienced by oneself, with constant practice, will soon begin to influence other minds too and they will also experience this invisibility.
The aim of this practice is to simply transcend body consciousness and not make any sci-fi-like attempts to becoming invisible. No separate time needs to be set apart for this too. Each day we do take a look at the mirror to set ourselves right.
Instead of getting lost in the image in the mirror, we can take a few seconds to keep the eyes closed and see that the form is actually not there.
In the same way, the sadhaka can meditate on any experience of sound, taste, smell and touch. This is an unconscious technique or habit by which people who have eyes, can sometimes not see what is right before their eyes. When the focus is brought to the vibrations caused in the mind, the disconnection with the outside source soon makes us disconnect with all the sounds, taste, touch and smell.
We are all the time doing actions. When we bring our mind’s attention to the actions happening within the body and the actions performed by it, the results produced by those actions and our response to them, there is a subtle knowledge that is generated about the functions of the body. This meditative observation will also reveal to us the latent experience and actions that we may go through in the future.
This knowledge in due course of time will reveal to us the time of death through signs and omens. These siddhis need not be specially practised. They are a natural result of a slow, meditative, aware and experiential living.
When the mind is absorbed in the different shades of friendship and relationships—friendliness, compassion, joy and indifference, the respective powers of those qualities are attracted.
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