Suburban Householder Yogi

Or "Suburban Householder Cave Yogi"

When I was young I used to pick up hitch hikers a lot from around 1964 when I got my first car at age 16 to around 25 when I got together with my first wife. I really liked the book "Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. He was one of the first Swamis to come to California in 1914 and he established Self Realization Fellowhip. Since I was raised a lacto-ovo vegetarian (it just means we ate dairy products and eggs too) like a lot of people from India also did at the time. So, because restaurants in the 1950s were mostly places to eat meat and fish I didn't go to restaurants much as I grew up. Basically, I could get Tomato Soup, a Grilled Cheese Sandwich, Baked potatoes and vegetables and a green salad back then. (Whoopee!) So, we didn't eat out much when I was zero to 12 or 15 years of age.

But there was then in the 1950s and early 1960s a Self Realization Vegetarian Restaurant in Hollywood and in Encinitas near San Diego. So, if you wanted the best vegetarian meal ever you went to one of these two restaurants in the 50s and 60s then. But by 1965 it became the rage to have a vegetarian Restaurant everywhere in the Los Angeles area so because of all the competition I think that the Self Realization restaurants eventually closed down at some point.

Anyway, I passed out copies of "Autobiography of a Yogi" to anyone who seemed like they really needed it at that time. So, I probably bought and passed out maybe 20 to 50 copies of it that I bought in bulk in paperback. What I was taken with was the fact that the kinds of experiences that Paramahansa Yogananda was having I was having too. So, I could really relate to his childhood and teens and twenties supernaturally. I realized for example that Lahiri Mahasaya was a householder Yogi. This meant he was married and had a family and worked for the railroad and was still and accomplished Yogi with many Siddhis (magical capacities and accomplishments). This was how I realized that I wanted to become a householder yogi.

I also had memories of becoming a Cave Yogi and levitating. In that lifetime I was born around 1850 in the Himalayas and by the 1870s I could levitate and this was how I traveled. However, I learned to only do this at night because otherwise someone might have a heart attack if they saw me flying because people were very superstitious in the Himalayas back then. So, if I flew from place to place at night it was much less likely they would see me unless they were looking up at night and it was a full moon or something. And even then, someone could say, "Oh. I really didn't see that. It must have been an owl or big bird or something" and go right on with their business. I can remember living until around 1930 in Nepal and India, even though I had levitated all over Asia and throughout China from age 23 to when I was around 80 in India. Then I remember wanting to be born in the U.S. around that time and finding a way to be born in Japan and then dying in Nagasaki and being born in Seattle. So, I was successful in being reborn in the U.S. even though I had to die at age 12 to succeed at this. However, being born here was a completely different experience than I expected in 1930. Everything is so different here than it was in Asia that I might as well have been born on a different planet. So, want I intended to accomplish and what I actually did is completely different. But, how could anyone know just how different it is here from the Himalayas?

But that is another story entirely.

So, as a young man in this lifetime I realized I needed to be married and to have children. But, I wanted to still be a spiritual man on an ever evolving spiritual path of enlightenment. So, I realized that I could become a Householder Yogi like Lahiri Mahasaya and later I also realized in some ways one could also be a Suburban Householder Cave Yogi as well. In this way one can develop many siddhis (magical empowerments through practices over the years). What you might say are magical empowerments? There are many useful abilities. I find the most useful is: "a constant state of well being". In some ways this is the easiest of the Siddhis to attain for most people. Other siddhis might be healing people at a distance, seeing things around the world at a distance etc.

Most people don't try to levitate like I did two lifetimes back  because they don't need to anymore. If you can work less than a week or more and buy a plane ticket to anywhere on earth, why would you spend 2 to 5 years in a cave so you could levitate? Anyway, this is what I think.

Note: If you want to see the above as science fiction or fantasy that's fine with me. However, this is still my experience of my soul. However, everyone has their own experience about what life is and I respect that.