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"Siddha Yoga is very ancient. When the universe was created, the Siddha Path was created. At the beginning, when all pervasive consciousness created the whole universe, he also created Siddhas, the seven great sages who were known as the mind-born children of God. And the lineage of this path is still alive. People who follow this path become Siddhas--that's why it's called Siddha Yoga. Just by remembering a Siddha, just through his grace, a spontaneous yoga begins to take place in you.
Siddha Yoga never goes to waste, because perfection is in everyone. An experience you get for a while may leave you, but perfection never leaves, and the shakti never leaves. In time, you will get to a state where there is no pain or pleasure, and no giver or taker. In this state, the giver and the person who receives become one. The heat of the sun cannot reach that place and no storm can reach that place. Even sadness doesn't reach that place, nor disease.
Once I went to a hospital in New York, and the doctor there wanted to stick a long needle in me. He thought I had cancer. I knew I didn't have cancer. Still they insisted, so I told them they could take their tests. They wanted to give me an anesthetic, but I said no. I closed my eyes, and they stuck their needle in. Afterwards the doctor said, "how could you not feel the pain?" I told him that pain doesn't reach that state. Maybe when he inserted the needle my body felt the pain, but the pain didn't reach the place where I was. Even death doesn't reach that state. Great beings know when death is coming at the time of death they enter into that state. For such a being, death is like the deep samadhi of meditation.
So you should keep on pursuing Siddha Yoga very peacefully. Never wonder when you are going to attain something. Just as you live your life every day, pursue Siddha Yoga. It should not be that for four days you pursue this and stop and go back to it after a while, or go on some other course. You experience different things in this yoga. You experience kriyas, and love arises in you. ....the Truth is you should get so addicted to meditation that if you miss meditation you should feel bad, you should feel the same as if you missed eating.
Sit quietly for meditation. Let your mind go where it wants to go. If it lights in a good place--fine. If it lights in a garbage dump--fine. Don't wish for experiences. They will come when it's time." Swami Muktananda. "Siddha Yoga by Swami Muktananda Part 2" Baba: The Magazine of SYDA FoundationVol. I, No.3 Oakland, CA: SYDA Foundation, 1976.
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