Meditation helps us to gain supernatural powers. These are called 8 spiritual powers. These powers are needed in now and then living our life and these powers are very very necessary for dealing various situations in our life. Lack of these powers make our life difficult. So we will try to understand these powers and we will try to imbibe these powers in our life so that our life becomes very easy.
These powers are :
- Power to Withdraw : This power is visible in tortoise. As a tortoise contracts its limbs and body inside a shell when it rests or feels some danger in the surroundings, in the same way, a yogi gradually attains this power. A yogi can assess the surrounding and can withdraw himself / herself from any waste things to protect thyself. Withdrawing has 2 advantages – It protects from the bad omens and secondly, it rejuvenates oneself. Withdrawing from the surrounding and concentrating on the self i.e., the soul and stay in the consciousness of the soul and the virtues of the soul and the person becomes introverted.
- Power to accommodate : As all the canals, rivers having dirty water accommodate in the ocean, God also teaches to imbibe this power. An ocean has 2 inbuilt characteristic i.e., it is very vast and very deep. It accepts all the filth from the canals and rivers and keeps itself clean by throwing the filth in the edge or coast. In the same way, we need to imbibe this characteristic within ourselves. The ocean is always silence and peaceful from inside and many aquatic animals having pearls can be found deep inside the ocean. In the same way an yogi gradually attains this power by meditation practice. Many people come with negatives in their life, sadness, troubles and expects a solution from an yogi. An yogi, due to the power to accommodate, will accept all the negatives and troubles in their life and thus will provide with a solution (pearl).
- Power to tolerate : Power to withdraw enables one to gain this power of tolerance. When you become introverted and think about the virtues of the self then everyone feels to be innocent, even though he / she is doing the wrong thing. The One who has a lot of attainments has to tolerate. As for example people will throw stones to a tree full of fruits. But the tree in return gives only sweet fruit, in the same way our life should replicate like a fruitful tree. People say that a person who tolerates is a coward. But it is not so. We use the word ‘power’ with tolerate. Tolerating is a power. When we check the quality and strength of a material, we first hit with some heavy material. If it withstands the thrust or the force, then it is sent for use and an label of OK and fit to use is pasted over it. On the other hand, if the material cannot withstand the force of thrust and breaks into pieces, then they are thrown away. In the same way, the one who has the extreme power to tolerate will be loved by all and will get a stamp of fit to use. On the other hand, a person with intolerance will not be accepted by the society and will be left alone.
- Power to face : A person who is practicing meditation gains the inner power and thus he / she can face any difficult problems. He / she continuously stays in the consciousness of a soul and thus a flow of wisdom and powers continuously takes place. He / she remains unshakable and immovable and thus wins later.
- Power to discern : When we withdraw ourselves from the environment and focus on the self, discerning becomes very easy. When our mind has a clean and clear picture about any situation and can assess the situation then, discerning becomes very easy. But if we get distracted or attracted towards the situation and don’t focus on the self and the situation, then we get betrayed and wrongly assess the situation.
- Power to decide : Power to discern and decide work together. When discerning is accurate, we decide according to that.
- Power to Pack up : If we observe the foreigners carefully, we can see that they only carry on the necessary items during a long trip. By doing so, they feel easy to carry and travel with ease. In the same way, when we only carry the necessary items like peace, love, happiness, positivity, humbleness, caring nature etc, and leave all the wasteful and unnecessary things like the past memories, negativity etc, then we will enjoy the life without feeling any burden. Life will be at ease. Also life is like a journey. We bring positivity, love, happiness and all the divine qualities from the supreme abode and now while returning back to the supreme abode we need to grab all these divine qualities with me while going back to my real home i.e., the supreme abode. We came here in this earth without any of the materialistic things (that we say as ‘my things’ in this earth) and again we need to return back to our home leaving all these materialistic things in this earth.
- Power to co-operate : Every big work can be successfully done by the power of cooperation. A single person cannot do a very large job, instead he / she will become tired and will not be able to complete the job within the estimated time. Even God needs the cooperation of we children for doing this big task of transforming this whole world. We can help him just by changing ourselves. We shouldn’t care about others, whether they are changing themselves or not, but we should focus on ourselves and should change the self so that this very big work of world transformation can successfully be achieved within the time.
So, these powers are very suble and are very much necessary while living a happy life. So, one must understand these powers practice meditation daily to use these powers. Use of these powers will help the person by saving time and energy and he / she will attract the positivity from the surroundings.
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