VIBHUTI PADA Sutras from 21 to 34
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By samyama over these the knowledge of death comes. There is an awareness of the proximity of death.
In the same way, as described above, the yogi is able to arrest sound, smell, taste, form and touch.
By samyama over the strength of the elephant, the yogi gains the strength of an elephant.
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By samyama on the sun, the yogi gains the knowledge of the solar system, the knowledge of the regions of the solar system, the seven worlds and of the seven cosmic centres in the body are gained.
Samyama on the plexus of the navel, the yogi gains knowledge of the system of the body.
By samyama on kurmanadi (below the throat pit in the chest, there is this tube of the shape of a tortoise), a subtle tortoise-shaped tube located below the throat, the yogi can make his body and mind firm and immobile like a tortoise; motionless in the meditative posture is achieved.
Prathibhaa means prescience; it is genius, vivid, imagination, related to divination. It is the flash of illumination, and intuition of all knowledge, spontaneous enlightenment.
Experience consists in the absence of the notion of a distinction between the Purusha and objective essence, which is really quite distinct from each other, because it exists for another.
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