However, I soon learned that people if they see you fly in the daylight might have a heart attack or stroke if they see something like this and die. So, mostly I did this at night to protect (out of compassion people from dying seeing me fly.)
I can remember clearly now the 2 to 5 year practice in a cave in the Himalayas, a puja likely started by Milarepa or before where you attain levitation as a Siddhi (magical empowerment to further the Dharma teachings across Asia). So, after years of dharma practices in the dark in a cave in the Himalayas my robes were rotting off me, and my fingernails were very long and my hair then unkempt from years of meditation and I likely smelled not very good either, (all of which was traditional then for an adept learning levitation) I ventured out of my cave on a full moon night with my rotting robes flapping in the breeze I levitated up towards the moon in disbelief that I had finally attained the Siddhi of levitation. After this success I began to travel and teach as a guru across the Himalayas wherever I could levitate to. But, out of compassion so others wouldn't die when they saw me fly I usually flew at night when people couldn't be sure of what they were seeing and so wouldn't faint, have heart attacks or strokes and die so much. Later in life I lived in India where being like this wasn't as unusual as it was some other places and where I had many students who studied my teachings there successfully until around the 1930s when I passed away in my 80s.
Within the last 2 years I have learned that I have often multiple incarnations here on earth at the same time as a soul. Though this was surprising to me at first, I have grown used to it now. (the idea of it).
Because now I have learned that a soul doesn't live in time and space and is capable of thousands to millions of incarnations throughout this galaxy and others simultaneously since a soul doesn't trouble itself with concepts like Time and space. Only when we are incarnated as humans or other beings do we consider time and space as important to us.
By the Way likely Milarepa and Padmasambhava and Mandarhava were the most famous flying saints of Tibetan Buddhism.
Levitation isn't necessary in this age though since you can work a week or less now and buy a plane ticket almost anywhere on earth as long as you have a passport. However, the only reason now I can see levitation as useful is if you don't have a passport and want to travel the world anyway. Since many in 3rd world nations cannot get passports because they didn't get a birth certificate because their parents couldn't read when they were born, this I can see might be why people learn to levitate still.
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Saint Joseph of Cupertino is believed to be a flying saint in Christian tradition.
Christianity
The ability to levitate was attributed to figures in Early Christianity. The apocryphal Acts of Peter gives a legendary tale of Simon Magus' death. Simon is performing magic in the Roman Forum, and in order to prove himself to be a god, he flies up into the air. The apostle Peter prays to God to stop his flying, and he stops mid-air and falls, breaking his legs, whereupon the crowd, previously non-hostile, stones him to death.[1]The church of Santa Francesca Romana claims to have been built on the spot in question (thus accepting the claim that Simon Magus could indeed fly), claims that Saint Paul was also present, and that a dented slab of marble that it contains bears the imprints of the knees of Peter and Paul during their prayer.
Saint Francis of Assisi is recorded as having been "suspended above the earth, often to a height of three, and often to a height of four cubits" (around 1.3 to 1.8 m). St. Alphonsus Liguori, when preaching at Foggia, was lifted before the eyes of the whole congregation several feet from the ground.[2] Liguori is also said to have had the power of bilocation.
Flying or levitation was also associated with witchcraft. When it came to female saints, there was a certain ambivalence expressed by theologians, canon lawyers, inquisitors, and hagiographers towards the powers that they were purported to have. By 1500, the image of the female saint in popular imagination had become similar to that of the witch. Both witches and female saints were suspected of flying through the air, whether in saintly levitation or bilocation, or in a Witches' Sabbath.[3]
Hinduism
Levitation has also been cited outside of Christianity. In his book Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahamsa Yogananda discusses Nagendranath Bhaduri, a saint said to levitate in India. The saint had mastered Astanga Yoga and several Yogic techniques including various pranayamas or breathing techniques as mentioned in Patanjali's Yoga Sutra. Yogananda wrote that Nagendranath Bhaduri had performed bhastrika pranayama so strongly that he felt like he was in the middle of a storm and after performing the pranayama, Bhaduri Mahasaya entered into a state of ecstatic calm. The chapter which describes Bhaduri Mahasaya is titled "The Levitating Saint".See also
Notes
- Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987, p. 23.
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