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  • Yogi Stops Heart Scientific Demo Result

    Yoga, a spiritual exercise , has some physical spin offs.

    One such is the stopping of the Heart at will.

    ECG of A Yogi when he stopped Heartbeats-Study.
    ECG of A Yogi when he stopped Heartbeats

    But these, a part of Siddhis are proscribed by Patanjali.

    Please read my posts on Yoga, under ‘Hinduism,Indian Philosophy”

    Realized Souls do not practice this.

    Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi used these Siddis like materializing objects from  Air’ ,being present in many places at the same time.

    When asked to explain why he does these  as the Yoga proscribed it, Baba replied,

    ‘People to day need some thing novel and out of the ordinary to have Faith.

    They will be strengthened in their Faith when they see something beyond the Normal.

    To strengthen their Faith, I perform these’

    Here is an evaluation Report of a Yogi, who stooped his heartbeats by a Cardiologist.

    ”

    LK Kothari MSc MAMS, Arum Bordia MD, VP Gupta MD
    Rabindinath Tagore Medical Colledge & Hospital; Udapur India

    Copy Right material.

    Quoted in Public Interest.

    Heartbeats Animated gif
    Heartbeats .

    To the editor:

    Yogis in India have long been reputed to develop a remarkable control over bodily functions. Theoretically, it is believed that all visceral functions can be brought under voluntary control by prolonged yogic training, but perhaps their most fascinating claim has been the ability to stop the heart at will. However, in most instances where this has been investigated so far, it has turned out to be an exaggerated Valsalva manoeuvre in some form, which makes the pulse and heart sounds imperceptible while the heart continues to beat at a slow rate.

    Recently we had the rare opportunity of investigation of an altogether different and very interesting demonstration of this supposed yogic control over the heart. Yogi Satyamurti, a sparsely built man of about 60 years of age, remained confined in a small underground pit for 8 days in what according to him was a state of “Samadhi”, or deep meditation, with all bodily activity cut down to the barest minimum. The pit was a 1.5 metre cube, dug out in an open lawn surrounded by the Medical Institute buildings, and was completely sealed from the top by bricks and cement mortar. The Yogi squatted on the floor of the pit with nothing on excepted a light cotton garment. About 5 litres of water was placed in the corner, presumably for drinking but according to the Yogi only for keeping the air humid. An ECG (Lead II) was continuously monitored during these 8 days and various other laboratory investigations were carried out before and after. The ECG leads were kept short enough not to allow any free movement inside the pit.

    The 12-lead ECG recorded before closing the pit was within normal limits (Fig. 1, strip A), but a significant sinus tachycardia developed soon after. It increased progressively, reaching a heart rate of 250 per minute on the second day (Fig.1,strip B). At 5:15 pm on the second day, when the yogi had been inside for about 29 hours, to our great surprise a straight line replaced the ECG tracing (Fig.1, strip C). There was no electrical disturbance of any sort even at higher amplification and with different leads. There had been no slowing of the heart or signs of ischaemia preceding this.

    The straight line on the ECG persisted till the eighth morning. Then, to our astonishment, electrical activity returned about half an hour before the pit was scheduled to be opened. After some initial disturbance, a normal configuration appeared. Although some sinus tachycardia was still there, there was no other significant abnormality (Fig.1, strip D). The Yogi had informed us beforehand that he would begin to come out of his deep trance or suspended animation after nearly 7 days, much in the same way that a normal person wakes up after a few hours sleep.

    When the pit was opened on the eighth day, the Yogi was found sitting in the same posture. One of us immediately went to examine him. He was in a stuporous condition and was very cold (oral temperaturewas 34.8°C). On being taken out of the pit he developed severe shivering and this persisted for nearly 2 hours. A 12-lead ECG repeated in the laboratory subsequently was again within normal limits (Fig.1, strip E).

    The Yogi and his admirers felt more satisfied at his scientifically documented proof of a remarkable Yogic feat, while we were left rather perplexed and confused. We were expecting some bradycardia and possible sign of myocardia ischaemia, but contrary to this there was severe tachycardia followed by a complete disappearance of all complexes. Any instrumental failure was ruled out by thoroughly checking the machine and also by the spontaneous reappearance of the ECG on the last day. A disconnection of the leads by the Yogi, quite a likely explanation, ought to have given rise to a considerable electrical disturbance, but there was hardly any. Later on, we tried all sorts of manipulations with leads to stimulate what the Yogi could have done inside the pit (notwithstanding the total darkness and his ignorance of ECG technique), but in every case there was marked disturbance. Therefore, although it is obviously difficult to believe that the Yogi could have completely stopped his heart or decreased its electrical activity below a recordable level, we still had no satisfactory explanation for the ECG tracings before us.

    Apart from this, the Yogi had of course endured total starvation, sensory deprivation, as well as the discomfort of a very humid, closed atmosphere for 8 days. We did not pay much attention to anoxia, thinking that sufficient ventilation could occur through the bare earth on the side of the pit. The loss of weight (4.5 kilograms) and other biochemical changes were essentially the same as can be expected in starvation under similar conditions. They certainly discount any remarkable depression of the metabolic rate.

    The more optimistic amongst us considered this feat to be a marvellous extension of the “hypometabolic wakeful state of yogic meditation” as described by Wallace and co-workers, and the conditioned learning of autonomic responses in rats reported by DiCara. The sceptics, however, were inclined to take the whole thing as some cleverly disguised trick. But, for the present, we only want to put this interesting experiment on record just as an intriguing and inclusive attempt of a Yogi to demonstrate a voluntary control over his heart beat.:

    ©Copyright Knowledge of Reality Magazine 1996-2006. All rights reserved

    Source:

    http://www.sol.com.au/kor/10_02.htm

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  • Faith In Baba ,To be Felt.

    Faith is verified and trusted Belief.

    A Child trusts its Mother.

    Does it rationalize?

    You can not Know God,you can only Feel Him.

    I have an instance of Bhagwan Ramana Maharishi narrated to me by my father.

    My Grand father was Ramana Maharishi’s class mate.

    On this ground my used to have child -like access to Bhagwan.

    After a tiff with my mother,my father went to Ramanasramam at Tiruvannamalai to become a Sanyasi.

    He saw Bhagwan and told him he wanted to become a Sanyasi like Him.

    Maharishi asked my father to sit with him as he was giving Darshan.

    Normally Bhagwan takes his meals around 12 noon.

    Hour reached 3 pm.

    My father could not bear the hunger and asked the Bhagwan to come to lunch.

    He came,ate with my father asked him to take rest

    At about five pm, he called my father and told him that becoming a Sanyasi is no easy task and running away from family problems is no solution.

    One who can not bear with Hunger even for three  hours can never control senses, which is the prerequisite for becoming a Sanyasin.

    He advised my father that people in family Life are the foundation on which Sanyaasrama rests.

    Better to be in the Family life and practice Spirituality.

    In another instance,my father went there to ask Ramana Maharishi to ask questions on Philosophy but returned without asking any question.

    On being asked about this, my father explained that when he sat before the Bhagwan, questions vanished from his mind and he was at peace with himself.

    Guru’s Blessings may be Sparsa Deeksha,Mouna  Deeksha or Nayana Deeksha.

    Ramana Maharishi Blessed with Nayana and Mouna Deeksha.

    I have felt this when I went to  the Prayer hall where Baba was giving Darshan.

    Baba seems to do all these.

    I was at peace with my self.

    What more does one want?

    ( I have felt the same way in Ramanan Mahrishi’s Dhyana Hall,Seshadri Swamaigal Adihshtaanam,Tiruvannamalai, Shiri Baba’s Temple Prayer Hall,Mandaveli,Chennai and Ramakrishna Asrama in Mandaveli,Chennai

    However there are instances of Baba’s Miracles.

    Some of them are:

    Baba walked into the room and his sister slipped out of a coma.

    GOD HAS NOT CREATED everyone equal. I believe that some people have superhuman powers. Sathya Sai Baba was one of them. My brother-in-law told me about him 12 years ago. When I met him, he already knew I wanted to build a cardiac hospital on the outskirts of Bengaluru — a project most were sceptical about. When I met him, he simply told me, “The city will come to you.” It really did come to me. Baba once gave me a ring that I wear all the time, except during surgery, because I feel his warm presence.

    The most beautiful miracle of Baba’s is the one my brother-in-law witnessed. He was treating Baba’s sister, who at the time, had been in a coma for days. When Baba walked into the room, she woke up, talked to him for a few minutes and slipped back. How do you explain that medically?

    A Hindu woman once came to me for treatment. Someone in the Ajmer Dargah had told her it would save her life. She had aortal arteritis, a rare and serious condition. She insisted I operate. I didn’t know how to. I had to patch up her liver, her intestine and re-establish circulation to the brain. I did and she has been healthy for eight years now. Similarly, a very established doctor and friend saw his patient in a hospital levitate while meditating. I have seen people who are two yards away from death surviving and perfectly healthy people dying suddenly. How do you explain this? We do 36 heart surgeries a day in our hospital. We cut off circulation to the brain, paralyse the heart, and the patient is practically dead. Each time, I don’t know if he or she will survive it. Any doctor who thinks he does is kidding himself. You don’t want to hear this from a doctor and a scientist, but my hands are about as powerful as forceps controlled by God.

    My wife had hip cancer. Baba just said, ‘Cancer, cancelled’, and she was well and could walk

    SAI BABA saved his miracles for others. My sister suffered from a bad gastric ulcer. She was weak and the hospital doctor prescribed milk fed through the nose. A young, inexperienced nurse misunderstood the instruction and gave my sister milk intravenously — directly into the blood. She lost her consciousness and it seemed she would die. When the error was corrected, she suddenly got up and said, “Baba was here. He gave me vibhuti. I am perfectly okay.” She walked out of the hospital without an operation.

    In 1999, my wife suffered a heart attack. Four months after a bypass, she fainted during an evening walk. I rushed her to the hospital. She was in the intensive care unit and had breathing problems. They said — four months to live, operate immediately. When she heard this, my wife insisted on having Baba’s darshan before surgery. The doctor, who was also a devotee, discharged her. Bound to a wheelchair, oxygen cylinder in tow, my wife and I went to meet the Baba. It was Christmas. At Puttaparthi, we stood in the front row waiting for Baba’s darshan. On seeing me, he said, “No second surgery for her.” He produced vibhuti out of the air and told me not to worry. She was wheelchair-bound but after the darshan, she started walking and didn’t need that second surgery.

    I went back to Baba a second time for my wife, about eight years later. My wife had developed cancer in the hip. She could neither walk nor lie down and was on morphine injections. When I saw Baba, he said, “Cancer cancelled”, and produced a crystal Shivling with a wave of his hand. “Do abhishek and give her the water to drink,” he said. On the ninth day, my wife went to the market. Her cancer was gone.

    Sai Baba’s life, however, meant far more than the many miracles he performed. I used to believe only in the Vedantic philosophy. Now when I pray, I also chant Jesus, Allah and Buddha’s names. You can find all the world’s religions in Puttaparthi. I once saw an Iranian boy chant the Gayatri Mantra with perfect diction. By showing us the similarities in religions, the Baba united us. Not to mention the several cashless hospitals he ran or his colleges that took students without fees. For us, he was a living God.

    http://www.tehelka.com/story_main49.asp?filename=hub070511WHY.asp


  • Sathya Sai’s Prophesy about His Demise.Wrong?

    Baba’s Life is His Message.

    As for as his prophesy in concerned, there seems to be no authentication.

    Knowing Baba by His teachings,one can assert that He would not have said what is purported to have been said.

    Or it should have been taken out of context.

    One who has been identifying Himself with Universal Soul and who treats(present tense intended) people as manifestation Of Brahman, can never utter some thing similar.

    Even Lord Rama and Krishna had to leave their mortal frames.

    Those who discuss Sai in terms of Miracles and Prophesies have not got His Message.

    May Sai forgive them.

    “There is a difference between leaving a body and leaving the earth,” a devotee says, adding, “Baba never said he would leave for good. There has never been a mention that his soul would leave us. We must have misinterpreted it. We now firmly believe that only his body has left while his soul will remain with us.”

    Another person interprets the Baba’s discourse in a similar manner.

    “He has just left his body. We know for a fact that his soul is very much present over here. His soul will remain in Puttaparthi for the next 10 years and then he will be reborn as Prema Sai Baba in Karnataka.There is no doubt about that,” he says.

    http://current.com/1tue94c

  • SaiBaba,Nirguna, Bless Saguna Baba’s Mortal Frame.

    ‘Thiriyambagam yagamahe Sugandhim Pushti Vardhanam,

    Urvooriguvamivabandhanan mrityo muksheeyomaamruthaath’-Sri Rudra Prasna.

    http://abmp3.com/download/2696752-om-tryambakam-yajamahe.html

    Let’s Chant 108 times daily for Baba’s Health,till He recovers.


    While a huge number of devotees from India and abroad prayed for his speedy recovery and well-being, the health condition of godman Sri Satya Saibaba continued to be critical on Sunday though the doctors attending on him claimed that he was stable.

    “Saibaba is on ventilator. Dialysis was done to assist his kidney function,” said A N Safaya, director, Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences. He said Baba’s respiration had improved since morning. Following serious lung and chest congestion, Saibaba was put on ventilator. “His response to the treatment is satisfactory,” doctors said. The 85-year-old Saibaba was admitted to Satyasai super-speciality hospital here on March 28 following pneumonia and respiratory problems.

    With Saibaba sitting over assets worth hundreds of crores, rumours were rife about a succession battle within the portals of Prasanthi Nilayam, the abode of Saibaba, in this small town in the farthest corner of Andhra Pradesh.

    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Saibaba-critical-on-ventilator/articleshow/7859254.cms