Have you heard about the yogi that doesn't eat or drink at all? And he does so for about 70 years? Here in Greece all the news were talking about him. And because of the economic crisis that hit our door, some dream of learning the secret of the yogi...
I had my doubts, I must confess. I may do a diet that is not the common one, I may have in mind that I want to go raw some time - the sooner the better - and I may have heard about the ideal food that is the pure light of the sun but hearing it in this reality seemed impossible.
Then a friend of mine came from India. The timing was just weird - since I don't have a lot of friends from India. Of course, I discussed it with him and his wife and to my sincere surprise I learned that our new found yogi is nothing strange or mysterious for his country.
"Many yogis do that. A lot of people don't eat or drink and most of them do so from their childhood. Yeah, nothing special really."
"But how? I mean, how how? How do they do this? If people can live without eating why kids die from hunger in Africa?"
"It has to do with yoga and practice and meditation and the simple life these yogis live. It's not easy but not impossible too."
This was a bit disappointing for the greek people who were looking for the pill the yogi takes for his free food life. I am afraid that such a diet can't easily combine with our everyday neurotic nervous breakdown stressed and full of anger and misery life. It needs a clear mind and a happy and open heart.
What did the yogi said? He can meditate for many days, even months? I suppose the mind that can do this, can do many more other things too. It's mind over matter.
What has arrived in my mind right now? Ha. Yes. That story about Apollonio the Tyaneas, that ancient saint who was imprisoned for his strange ways and at the court, tied with heavy chains, he said to his persecutors: "You can do whatever you want with my body but you can do nothing to my soul." And then he thought about it again and said: "Now that I think better of it, you can do nothing to my body either," and he snapped his fingers and banished from the court. There were rumors after this that he was seen in different places far away from there. He just remembered he could do the impossible. Because for the people who break the program of this matrix we live in, nothing really is impossible...
I had my doubts, I must confess. I may do a diet that is not the common one, I may have in mind that I want to go raw some time - the sooner the better - and I may have heard about the ideal food that is the pure light of the sun but hearing it in this reality seemed impossible.
Then a friend of mine came from India. The timing was just weird - since I don't have a lot of friends from India. Of course, I discussed it with him and his wife and to my sincere surprise I learned that our new found yogi is nothing strange or mysterious for his country.
"Many yogis do that. A lot of people don't eat or drink and most of them do so from their childhood. Yeah, nothing special really."
"But how? I mean, how how? How do they do this? If people can live without eating why kids die from hunger in Africa?"
"It has to do with yoga and practice and meditation and the simple life these yogis live. It's not easy but not impossible too."
This was a bit disappointing for the greek people who were looking for the pill the yogi takes for his free food life. I am afraid that such a diet can't easily combine with our everyday neurotic nervous breakdown stressed and full of anger and misery life. It needs a clear mind and a happy and open heart.
What did the yogi said? He can meditate for many days, even months? I suppose the mind that can do this, can do many more other things too. It's mind over matter.
What has arrived in my mind right now? Ha. Yes. That story about Apollonio the Tyaneas, that ancient saint who was imprisoned for his strange ways and at the court, tied with heavy chains, he said to his persecutors: "You can do whatever you want with my body but you can do nothing to my soul." And then he thought about it again and said: "Now that I think better of it, you can do nothing to my body either," and he snapped his fingers and banished from the court. There were rumors after this that he was seen in different places far away from there. He just remembered he could do the impossible. Because for the people who break the program of this matrix we live in, nothing really is impossible...
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