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    Bahiya Sutta

    Namaste Rick, Did you crack the code yet, do you think it can be understood intellectually.
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    mahavatar babaji

    Namaste, While some things maybe hard to prove and its obviously more easy to prove the fakes and charlatans. But does this mean that some of these ancient sciences, which maybe lost or in a injured condition did not hold some secrets to para normal manifestation. Many of the ancient...
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    mahavatar babaji

    Namaste Part 6 As many great sages of the East and many saints of the Buddha did, he left behind a kind of autobiography in verses in which he summarized how he, as a liberated one, had passed through all the situations of his life, unperturbed and unshaken. Events that completely overwhelmed...
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    mahavatar babaji

    Namaste Part 5 There is also a story in which Moggallana was reborn as a jackal. Seeing a dead elephant, he was so greedy for its flesh that he crept through an intestinal aperture right into the elephant's belly, ate as much as he could, but was then unable to get out again, suffering mortal...
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    mahavatar babaji

    Namaste Part 4 About his recollection of his own former existences, Moggallana spoke only once, in the 50th Discourse of the Middle Length Discourses (Majjhima Nikaya). With that text we shall deal in the following chapter. In the Jatakas, the stories about the Buddha's former existences, it...
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    mahavatar babaji

    Namaste Part 3 5. Telekinesis (Supernormal locomotion) Moggallana also had mastery over, what appears to be solid matter. Once there were monks staying at a monastery, who were negligent and of distracted minds, busying themselves too much with material trifles. Learning of this, the Buddha...
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    mahavatar babaji

    Namaste Part 2 4. Travel by "mind-made body" ("Astral Travel") "Just as a person may bend his stretched arm or stretch his bent arm," so quickly was Moggallana able to depart bodily from the human world and reappear in a celestial realm. Repeatedly he made use of this capacity for instructing...
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    mahavatar babaji

    Namaste, According some yogic rules the powers that they attain through sadhana to get siddhis should never be revealed in public or to the faithless, so if someone is displaying powers then it would go against certain rules. There is the problem of misleading, but if something is used to...
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    mahavatar babaji

    Namaste, I cannot personally attest mahavatar babaji's age, but there have been others who have claimed a long life, not just in India. Along with Paramahamsa there are other popular books, like Walking with Himalayan Masters, 7 years in Tibet and many other written accounts of people with...
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    Did Buddha reject Veda? If, yes. Why?

    Namaste, You may get some insights from this link what the Buddha taught about Varna, quality of being and Jati -birth, or what people consider as the Caste System. This is a very complex situation, not only India has exploited the different classes of society but its more global than people...
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    Is Suffering Spiritually Beneficial?

    Namaste Hello Sunstone, Thank you for the welcome. For my response in this thread I will continue with the wisdom I have learned from Gautama the Buddha and that tradition. I see nobody has really dedicated in detail so much attention to the subject of suffering as Siddharta. By understanding...
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    Where do I go from here?!

    Namaste It is quite usual to question things more deeply. Most of the external form of religion is just conventions made by man and manipulated by man and thus the show goes one. Try to go a little deeper than mere conventions and externals, keep what treasure you found and cultivate that...
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    Is Suffering Spiritually Beneficial?

    Namaste How does one define spiritually beneficial. Are we looking for the world to have no suffering , we stop suffering altogether before one can get so called spiritual benefits ? I dont think the wisdom traditions say that suffering should be abandoned, that would weaken ones resolve at...
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    Is Suffering Spiritually Beneficial?

    Hello Zigzangle. I agree religious imposed or any type of imposed suffering is not good, although its not just restricted to religion. One could say if one has a mortage its imposed suffering, the root of the word is quite interesting to research. How beings on this planet experience pain and...
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    Buddhist Have a Soul

    Namaste, No need to get to over complicated with words, the Dharma Shastras and great teachers were never totally literal. It needs some insight, some inner cooking of the these broader concepts. Lets take the word Soul as an example, it can mean the inner core, the essence , the substratum...
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    Is Suffering Spiritually Beneficial?

    Namaste, Most commonly people are aware of the Buddhas teaching of suffering, which is not really a very good word for Dukkha, I think unsatisfactory is closer to the universal principle of Dukkha. If we understand Dukkha then we are free from it, this requires Samatha~Calm State of Mind and...
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    Existence arising out of non-existence

    Namaste Aupmanyav Ji, Well I am not the one opening the thread :). I want that a broader definition with meaning that can be given to the words existence and non existence. These words by themselves mean very little. I exist because I was born, I cease to exist because I have died. Does...
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    Existence arising out of non-existence

    Namaste What is meant by existence and non existence. How can something which has no existence make existence or how can existence come from non existence, how can something that exists cease to exists. Lest define properly what is meant by existence and non existence, hopefully we can agree...
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    Does Veda have myth/s in it?

    Namaste I agree there is no myth in Veda, the Puranas maybe Symbolic in parts, but is that Symbology identical with reality, the answer is obviously yes. Many things are hidden and encoded in the scriptures. Not that I am advertising Sri Aurobindo but you may want to read some of his works, I...
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    Did Buddha reject Veda? If, yes. Why?

    Namaste No he did not reject the Vedas, most of the Pali and Sanskrit texts were translated by missionaries of Christian origin, so they did not get the correct context in Siddhartas way. He did reject Elitism of Some of the Brahmical castes, he also created an order where anyone could join...
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