| 
Part VII : Darshan: About Astral Projection
A sannyasin says: Sometimes when I go to sleep and I lie on my
back, I can feel something moving in my body. It's not my body…it
feels like energy.
Mm mm, it is energy - so help it to move, and don't stop it.
Wherever it goes, you simply follow. Simply become the shadow
and let it become the real; it is your real energy. So just help
it to move.
You may be scared in the beginning because it can go away from
the body, and that is very scaring. Once you become attuned to
it, it has a beauty of its own. Nothing can be compared to it - sexual
orgasm is nothing. It gives you such a deep orgasm…the whole
body thrills with bliss.
If you follow it silently, without resistance, it will move away,
and you may be able to see your own body lying on the bed - and
you are standing near the door. You may be able to hover over
your bed like a cloud. Don't be afraid. Enjoy it…it is perfectly
good.
When you come back to the body you will have a thrill. Leaving
the body and coming back again, you will have a thrill, and the
thrill is deeper than any sexual orgasm.
In fact in sexual orgasm the same thing happens. Because of
the female energy, your male energy is attracted so deeply that
it leaves your body for a few seconds. It is not only an ejaculation
of semen - it is an ejaculation of you. Your whole energy
is ejaculated just for a second, and then you are again back in
the body. And that is the whole thrill of it.
Once you know how to do it without any partner, without any
sex being involved, then sex becomes meaningless because now you
know a higher way to attain to a deeper orgasm more easily, and
at no risk, no cost.
So allow this…it is very good. For fifteen days cooperate….
tolose13
A sannyasin who is returning to England says: I used to go outside
my body and I didn't know anything about it until I heard you
talking about it. It used to happen when I was frightened, and
I wouldn't have any control over it. I'd go about four feet away
from my body.
Yes, allow it - it is beautiful, very beautiful. Simply
enjoy it so it happens more and more. By and by it will become
more and more smooth and you will be able to go further and further
away from the body. One can almost float in the sky.
You are separate from the body. The body is just an abode in
which we are staying for a time being. So enjoy it and whenever
you have time slip into it. If it is happening naturally, it is
beautiful. It is a great meditation and will help tremendous growth
in you.
We have a certain attitude about things. For example if you
accept the idea that you are separate from the body, when the
thing happens you will become aware of it. If you reject the very
idea and think that it is foolish, the thing will happen but you
will bypass it. You will not recognise it or take note of it,
because it will go against your mind.
Then you will lose it. If you understand it and allow it, you
know the path and how it happened. It is a knack, and you slip
into that knack again and again and again and it happens more
and more.
People who have an idea that they have lived only once, are
living only once, and that there are not many lives, also slip,
sometimes, into their past lives, but they will interpret it in
a certain way. They will say, 'This is just dream or fantasy,
just nonsense, rubbish!' In that way they will block the door.
There are people who sometimes move into deep meditation but
they remain completely oblivious of the fact. If you ask them,
they will say, 'Maybe I fell asleep,' or, 'I don't know what was
happening!' The mind only selects those things which it accepts.
That's why an open mind is needed with no dogma cluttering it.
Then whatsoever happens, one is available to take note of it,
to enjoy it, and if it is life-enhancing, to move into it. Then
more and more things will happen.
It is a chain. If you go one step into it, another step becomes
available. If you go two steps, a third step becomes available.
And only one step becomes available at one time. If you don't
take the first step, the other steps are simply closed for you.
Whenever it happens, push it back a little further. You feel
it is four feet, try to make it five or six. If you feel it is
in the room, just try to get out of the room. By, and by you will
feel that a freedom is coming and you are becoming attuned to
the phenomenon. Sometimes try to go out of the town, and then
to Poona (laughter). Come from Oxford, mm?…because time
and space are not barriers for it. getout24
Religion says: that which is, allow it to happen. All that you
can do is, please, don't disturb. Just allow it to happen. Remain
alert and passive and then there is no need to come to me; I will
come to you. Many times I have already reached you…whenever
you were silent. So this is not a theory: many of you even know
it by experience, but you interpret this also.
People come to me and they say: This morning, meditating, I
suddenly felt you, but I thought it must be a projection of my
mind. Or they say: Last night suddenly I felt a presence, I became
alert, and then I thought it must have been someone passing by,
a wind may have entered the room and fluttered the papers, or
just a cat has passed.
So what I am saying, many of you have already felt. That's why
I am saying it; otherwise, I would not say it.
Don't interpret. When you feel the presence, allow it to happen.
If you allow it to happen, it will materialize more and more.
It is possible that I will be there, as real as I am here, sometimes
even more so - because it depends on you how much reality
you allow to happen. And your questions will be answered.
Be more meditative and then you are nearer to me. Once you are
totally meditative, you are me. Then there is no difference. clouds13
This is my experience; many times it has happened…. Somebody
who is working deeply with me, growing, is in some dark night
of the soul. He needs my help, and I go to him and he trembles,
and he becomes afraid. Many times I say to my disciples, "If
I come, don't get scared." At that time they laugh, they
think I am joking. But when I reach them they tremble and they
cannot believe that I have come. They can believe anything, but
they cannot believe that I have come, because that is beyond their
scope. foll301
You ask: I have been told that you leave your body for several
hours each day and that when you return you are very hungry and
that you eat sixteen chapattis. Is this true?
Yes, it is true. Whenever one leaves the body one feels very,
very hungry on coming back, and after entering the body again
food functions as a paperweight and helps the inner space to settle
in the body again easily. Some day you will feel it, some day
it will happen suddenly in your meditations, that you are standing
outside the body and watching your own body lying there. Don't
be afraid and don't be afraid about how you will now enter it.
With just the idea of entering, you will find yourself in it.
No effort is needed, just the very idea that you would like to
enter, and you will, the very desire will lead you in. But then
you will feel a very unnatural hunger, as if you have not eaten
for many days. The body has lost much physical energy while you
were out of it. There is a point beyond which you cannot be out
of it, otherwise the body will be dead. To a certain limit you
can be out of it, but in that time, in that interval, the body
is losing energy continuously and very fast because you are not
in it to hold the energy. The body is almost dead.
When you enter it you will feel as if you have not eaten for
many days. So that's true - but about the exact number of
chapattis you will have to ask Vivek. Sixteen or not - that
I cannot be the right authority about. treas204
|
