#100, Jesus worked hard for ages in previous births
It is common for yoga and meditation sellers to exaggerate the benefits of meditation. They even deride naturally relieving mechanisms of body like sleep. Swami Vivekananda was not an exception. FACTS He said at his Washington Hall, San Francisco lecture, on Apr. 3, 1900. "... Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as meditation can. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest sleep ... " . BOGGER'S VIEWs *Experience of persons eating turtles and shad fish? *Healthy persons eating 'Satvic foods' get full relief from deep sleep and there will be no need to meditate. In the same lecture, further -- "... To every action there is equal reaction.... If a man strikes me and wounds me it is that man's actions and my body's reaction. ... Suppose I have so much power over the body that I can resist even that automatic action. Can such power be attained? The books say it can. ... If you stumble on [it], it is a miracle. If you learn it scientifi