Posted 28th March 2017 919

Thank you, sweet Shani A., for sharing this story with me! The story made me re-thinking nearly everything when it comes to exploring the past incarnations. We all perhaps are having such a huge abundance of dormant karmas… exploring them all could lead our lives to a grinding halt. Our bodies could become just as emaciated as Jaigishavya’s, and the balance could be never found then… and, the true balance, as you show with your own example, could be attained only by practising non-attachment. Releasing and letting go, the practice I try to follow on a daily basis, must be applied to the dormant karmas as well, and here lies the key to the most profound ascension ever…
Thank you again <3

Long ago there lived a yogi named Jaigishavya who undertook a long uninterrupted practice of intense tapas (austerities) before attaining enlightenment.Aided by his indomitable power of his will,he defied hunger,sleep,thirst and fatigue.Even though his body became emaciated,his senses and mind turned inward and his consciousness rose

Eventually the concentrated force of his will penetrated the realm of existence where the ordinary mind cannot reach.Then,as recounted in the scriptures,he transcended his body-consciousness and saw the relationship between the body,the senses and the different faculties of the mind.As his practice intensified,his awareness became so concentrated that he gained direct experience of the contents of his mind,ego and intellect.Finally he entered in to the vast realm of unconscious mind,known as chitta,where he encountered the dormant karmas related to his million and millions of of past lives.But in this state of deep spiritual absorption,he became disoriented.Although his mind was clear and one pointed,he could not tell whether he was dreaming or whether his unconscious mind being presents on the screen of pure consciousness.

As he focused more intently,however,confusion vanished and realized that he was in samadhi.His consciousness has transcended the realm of time and space and he was being blessed with the intuitive experience of his sanchita karmas.All of his previous life was before him and there was no distinction between them and his present life.It was if the past was slipped into the present and present had walked into the past.

Allowing his consciousness to expand further,he traveled deeper into the backyard of time.The more he searched,the more he discovered about himself.The experience was shocking.He was overwhelmed by the numberless life-forms,he had assumed in the past.He had been a king,an insect,a beggar,an elephant,a demon,a celestial being and everything in-between.He had hurt others and others had hurt him.He saw millions of individual souls-some he had hated and others hated him;some he had loved and they had loved him.Everything that had ever happened to him had created an impression,and all these impressions had stored intact.Although there were occasional intervals of pleasure,a stream of vivid pain flowed continuously throughout all these experiences.Before entering in to this state he had not been aware of those deposited impressions,nor had he been effected by them.But now he saw quite clearly that they would eventually manifest.The realization forced him to ponder issues he had never thought he would entertain……………

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