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Raj Kumar Dham  

Michael Beloved ,I personally feel that our one and only one goal should be MERGER ,and with your knowledge and experience you can have this in this birth alone .I do not know you might have attained this .I am interested in this though I am not putting my full efforts towards this . Maharishi Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras have talked about many sidhis which one can achieve and astral travel also is one ,but he has cautioned not to get attached with them and move forward to experience the state of YOGA ,which I feel is the Merger State of oneness I have not read much but you have and I would love to have your views on this .I have great regard and respect for you . Looking forward to hearing from you .

MiBeloved’s Response:

Raj Kumarji, Please see this verse from t;he Yoga Sutras about aparanta or information about what will happen after the end of life. From your information, I assume that you mean this is a siddhi which should not be cultivated. However your patience is required in the sense that many siddhis occur as one progresses in yoga even without the yogi aspiring for these. Can it be said that sexual maturity is a siddhi? Perhaps! But it happens as a matter of course in the life of the body, and it happens involuntarily.

सोपक्रमं निरुपक्रमं च कर्म तत्संयमादपरान्तज्ञानमरिष्टेभ्यो वा॥२३॥

sopakramaṁ nirupakramaṁ ca karma

tatsaṁyamāt aparāntajñānam ariṣṭebhyaḥ vā

sopakramaṁ – set about, undertaken, already operative; nirupakramaṁ – dormant, destined; ca – and; karma – cultural activities; tat - that; saṁyamād = saṁyamāt – from the complete restraint of the mento-emotional energy; aparānta – of the other end, of death entry into the hereafter; jñānam – knowledge; ariṣṭebhyaḥ – from portents; vā – or.

Complete restraint of the mento-emotional energy in relation to current and destined cultural activities results in knowledge of entry into the hereafter. Or, the same result is gained by the complete restraint in relation to portents. (Yoga Sutras 3.23)

In relation to oneness, I am suspicious about it and feel that the oneness state is not a permanent condition. There is also the issue of it being different from each of the various acharyas who advocate it. Krishna himself and the Pandavas did not go to a oneness condition but went to the Swarga angelic paradise whole as described in the Mahabharata. Those places have environment just as this earth has one but those environments are of a different quality.

Krishna also hinted in the Bhagavad Gita discourse that every atma-self has to continue existing once it comes into objective existence somewhere. It must go on existing as an individual self (jivatma). Thus, the idea of attaining oneness is stymied by Krishna’s evidence. As for Patanjali, I have not found that he gave oneness as the objective. He give kaivalyam, yes, but it does not mean oneness or MERGER. I do not see that meaning in the Sanskrit. Please inform us of where he stated that.