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among the "powers" (III, 9, 1). The Rgvidhana, recopilacion Late but important because
the authors manage to exploit the Vedic sukta magic-end, specifically a certain diet and
certain rituals allow-ten away, leave this world flying through the air and train to see and
hear from afar, as someone who is in a very high (III, 9, 2-3). This latest mystical
experience is already registered and Japan's navy arctic shamanism (Eliade, Chamaorganisms,
ps. 69, 205, etc.)..
The Rgvidhana includes all sorts of magical practices, yogi and mystic type. This
collection illustrates the process ideally hinduizaci6n of Vedic tradition: we see clearly
alii assimilation of beliefs and non-Brahmanical practices and most probably non-Aryan
all the technical details of magic, ecstasy or contemplation are integrated and validated by
cifas Vedic scriptural. The praise of magic is at the height of the exaltation of ri-tual and
secret knowledge. By using magic, they can force rain to cause the supreme deity (II, 9,
2), by the power of meditation can strike down the enemy (I, 16, 5), through appropriate
rites can do emerge from the water a krtya dangerous female demon (II, 9, 3). Just have
to know well the sacred texts for the realization of to-dos desires (I, 7, 1). Through
certain rituals one becomes able to remember his former existences (II, 10, 1), specifically
wonder this yogi.
Pranayama is well known (I, 11, 5): he "must practice up to 101 times (I, 12, 1) while
mentally repeat the syllable OM (I, 12, 5). But recently from Chapter III find the
exposition of the technique yogi. You have to practice yoga at half-night, "when all men
sleep soundly" (III, 36, 2) in an appropriate place position you sit in asana, "clasping
hands position of honor "(36.4, since meditation is the name of Narayana, 36, 1) and with
eyes closed-ment-" in the inmost heart, "the syllable OM (36, 5); if not then heard nor
seen anything, if "there is already a reflection on the subject of Yoga, then we have
achieved what they sought" (37, 1). On the pranayama, we must exercise in "doing hisbir
"the sisters to just below the navel, then to just below the heart, to" fix "between the
eyebrows (the" supreme place ") and fi-nally in the skull, where, again through the
breath, do it again down to navel (37, 2, 38, 1). "supreme place" is part of Brahman.
Through this exercise, Yogi is the Self, one becomes holy and reaches the highest state
(parama, 37, 2 -- 4). is made concentration (Dharana) fixing the sisters in the sun, fire,
moon, on the tops of the trees, the tops of mountains, sea, etc.. (38, 5, 39, 1 ). Then one
can move to the light higher, at the starry sky: as the Supreme Spirit, the yogi becomes
capable of seeing his own self (39, 3-4). Yet another text (41, 4) ensures that you can get
the "divine eye" by magic formulas and offerings made by fire: the old position, the
primacy of ritual magic, which strives to maintain its prestige.
All these practices yogis are already registered in
highly qualified by the devotion. The text points out that although no
reaching the desired goal-the vision of the self-should not be aban -
donate it "appreciates those who want it"
Narayan should be thought like being in the center of
solar (42, and this foreshadows the tantric iconography. For
Moreover, it is stated that Visnu can only be achieved through
of the bhakti (42, 6). An earlier text (III, 31, 1) quoted bid
and gave details about the cult of the "imperishable is ne -
Cesario "in the body fix itself and
that of the gods (32, 2). Another text (III, 30, 3-6) brings the mem-ory organs where they