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AllatRa by Anastasia Novykh
those who possess certain individual qualities, abilities and already gained professional
skills. Yet, other people who wanted to participate in that Buddha’s group, but didn’t
participate actually, knew such group existed. And there have always been plenty of
imitators who perverted the knowledge. It should be mentioned that in Buddha’s times,
just like nowadays, many people were keen on magic and various mystical arts of secret
sciences for the sake of their egoistic desire to gain invisible power over others.
However, one thing is to possess supernatural abilities for one’s egoistic goals and pride,
and a totally other thing is to use such abilities in the service to the spiritual world. Thus,
Buddha warned his disciples that, while passing the internal transformation stages, they
had to strictly adhere to their main spiritual goal which was the only genuine sense of
human existence; that is to the spiritual liberation, or withdrawal to Nirvana. Otherwise,
they could fall into an illusion and take the transient as the eternal.
Anastasia: Well, in Ancient India the subject of various preternatural abilities
acquisition in one or another way was quite popular. We can say it was a PR trick to
popularize various religions. For example, besides the Buddhist religion, such points
were included in esoteric dashans (teachings) of Old Hindu philosophy describing the
yoga methods of “the genuine knowledge” comprehension through acquisition of
“divine abilities” in spiritual practices. In particular, in esoteric schools they still use
such notion as “shakti” to designate the powers which may be acquired at various
practice stages. For instance, Djiana Shakti means the powers relating to abilities of
clairvoyance, super hearing, telepathy; Kriya Shakti relates to materialization of things,
ability to heal or to hurt by the power of one’s thought; Ichha Shakti means
manifestation of the power of one’s will, self-control leading to acquisition of
preternatural capacities in one’s body, ability to conduct astral journeys; Mantra Shakti
means the powers relating to cosmic rythms and influence over the nature.
Rigden: That’s right. “Shakti” in translation from Sanskrit means “power, might”. In
Old Hindu legends, like I’ve said, “shakti” is mentioned as the primary divine creative
force of the female principle on the Universe scale (Adi Shakti), whereas in spiritual
practices “shakti” meant powers endowed with the functions of Allat and the four
human Aspects. In religious legends this constructive force was personified by
goddesses who were spouses of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva and represented an aspect of
each and every deity. There is also an interesting record that the shakti force branches
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