Yogananda, Paramahansa, 1893-1952; Yogis -- India -- Biography
The masters who are able to materialize and dematerialize their
bodies or any other object, and to move with the velocity of light,
and to utilize the creative light-rays in bringing into instant
visibility any physical manifestation, have fulfilled the necessary
Einsteinian condition: their mass is infinite.
The consciousness of a perfected yogi is effortlessly identified,
not with a narrow body, but with the universal structure. Gravitation,
whether the “force” of Newton or the Einsteinian “manifestation of
inertia,” is powerless to COMPEL a master to exhibit the property
of “weight” which is the distinguishing gravitational condition
of all material objects. He who knows himself as the omnipresent
Spirit is subject no longer to the rigidities of a body in time
and space. Their imprisoning “rings-pass-not” have yielded to the
solvent: “I am He.”
“Fiat lux! And there was light.” God’s first command to His ordered
creation (GENESIS 1:3) brought into being the only atomic reality:
light. On the beams of this immaterial medium occur all divine
manifestations. Devotees of every age testify to the appearance
of God as flame and light. “The King of kings, and Lord of lords;
who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can
approach unto.” {FN30-5}
A yogi who through perfect meditation has merged his consciousness
with the Creator perceives the cosmical essence as light; to him
there is no difference between the light rays composing water and
the light rays composing land. Free from matter-consciousness,
free from the three dimensions of space and the fourth dimension
of time, a master transfers his body of light with equal ease over
the light rays of earth, water, fire, or air. Long concentration
on the liberating spiritual eye has enabled the yogi to destroy
all delusions concerning matter and its gravitational weight;
thenceforth he sees the universe as an essentially undifferentiated
mass of light.
“Optical images,” Dr. L. T. Troland of Harvard tells us, “are built
up on the same principle as the ordinary ‘half-tone’ engravings;
that is, they are made up of minute dottings or stripplings far
too small to be detected by the eye. . . . The sensitiveness of
the retina is so great that a visual sensation can be produced by
relatively few Quanta of the right kind of light.” Through a master’s
divine knowledge of light phenomena, he can instantly project into
perceptible manifestation the ubiquitous light atoms. The actual form
of the projection-whether it be a tree, a medicine, a human body-is
in conformance with a yogi’s powers of will and of visualization.
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