#153, YOU WILL BE BURNT TO ASHES!
Quote from a Reminiscence of Shri A. Srinivasa Pai:
BLOGGER'S VIEW
1. Why Vivekananda was threatening the poor Professor of History?
2. Nobody would be burnt to ashes, by meditation, intense or otherwise.
3. Vivekananda did not make any Para kaaya pravees1a (Entering into the bodies of others), to study how sages thought while meditating.
4. Why was Vivekananda not burnt to ashes, though he meditated? His meditation was not intense? Why was Shri Ramakrishna not burnt to ashes? His meditation also was not intense?
"... The late Dewan Bahadur R. Raghunatha Rao and a number of other social reformers including my old Assistant Professor of history, the late Mr. A. Subba Rao (a sturdy social reformer and agnostic) used to attend. Some of the social reformers were snubbed by the Swami and their views and methods criticized. Once when Mr. A. Subba Rao spoke rather disparagingly of the thinking power and views of our old rishis, the Swami remarked that Mr. Subba Rao could have no idea of the power of intense meditation which the rishi had acquired through long self discipline, and added. "You will be burnt to ashes if you think for half a minute like them." ..."
BLOGGER'S VIEW
1. Why Vivekananda was threatening the poor Professor of History?
2. Nobody would be burnt to ashes, by meditation, intense or otherwise.
3. Vivekananda did not make any Para kaaya pravees1a (Entering into the bodies of others), to study how sages thought while meditating.
4. Why was Vivekananda not burnt to ashes, though he meditated? His meditation was not intense? Why was Shri Ramakrishna not burnt to ashes? His meditation also was not intense?
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1. Vasishta cursed the Ikshvaku King Kalmashapada to become a demon, simply because the Rishi suspected that there was human flesh mixed up in his food. He did not bother to verify whether Kalmashapada was really guilty or not.
2. Bhrigu kicked Vishnu on his chest, because Vishnu did not attend to the rishi.
3. Durvasa cursed Ambarisha because he took a little water, without waiting for the rishi.
4. Udanka cursed the King Paushya, because there was a hair in the food served to him.
5. Gautama cursed his wife to become a stone, without realising that Indra was the real culprit.
6. Sanaka Sanandanas cursed Jaya and Vijayas to become demons for three births, because they did their duty of not gatekeeping.
7. Siva beheaded Vinayaka with his trisulam because he obstructed Siva's entry to reach Parvati.
8. Lord Krishna wanted to kill Gaya because a spit of pawn leaves fell in Krishna's hands.
9. Rama wanted to kill Yayati because Visvamitra wanted it.
10. Rama killed Sambuka without any enquiry because a Sudra did penance resulting in death of a Brahmin's son.
11. Jamadagni asked Parasu Rama to kill his mother, suspecting her fidelity.
Yoga has become a fad in the West. This types of fads take place real deep searches are not made. I do not want to belittle the benefits of Yoga. They need to be investigated and proven scientifically. We have to, in the meantime, view at Yoga dispassionately.
The same is the case with homoeopathy. Hahneman attributed curative powers to the potencies made by him, claiming that potencies are born from nothing. The Government of India and the State Govts. established numerous medical Colleges and hospitals, spending crores of Rupees every year. This is a world of fads.
About Homoeopathy's failure, you may like to read: homoeopathyyb.blogspot.com.