The Crocodile

@Hatfort I think the main problem is that you're just pro-Russia. If you get rid of that then the rest of the bullshit falls apart because then you don't have any ideological interest in defending and/or creating it. And the sea there is a big part of the war? This is not a naval war. And I don't believe it increases the "security" of Crimea that much or that the security of Crimea is related to the actual substance of the war. And the idea that russian technology is anywhere near the advancement of AMERICAN technology is absurd. Of course the West could some evils to it, and that's fine. It's just that Russia is objectively the worse side.

Wasn't it supposed to have that secured like ten years ago? And weren't they supposed to have toppled Kyiv in a few days or weeks in February 2022? But it's been a stalemate for two years until the Ukrainians were given the ahead to basically do whatever they want. But . . . now they have Ukrainian troops in Russia and assassins in Russia? With generals and administrators getting killed in both combat and assassinations? And the scary American drone technology being superior, just able to kill numerous numbers of Russian soldiers and destroy columns of tanks in minutes? Any contradiction of this just seems like blatant arbitrary pro-East anti-West propaganda.

The yogi will be able to retain his breath for as long as he wants. Through being able to retain the breath for as long as he wants, kumbhaka is sure to be perfected. . . . the wise yogi should block Pingala with his right thumb, inhale through Ida, and hold his breath for as long as he can. Then he should exhale through Pingala---gently, not quickly, before inhaling through Pingala and holding his breath for as long as he can. He should exhale through Ida---gently, not quickly. Using this method of Yoga he should do twenty kumbhakas. Energized and free from all dualities, he should practice kumbhakas in this way four times every day at the following junctures: dawn, midday, sunset, and midnight. If he energetically practices thus every day for three months, then his nadis are sure to be purified forthwith. When the nadis of the yogi who has beheld the Ultimate Reality are purified, his sins are destroyed and the arambha state arises in him. Signs are seen in the yogi's body as a result of the purification of the nadis. For your benefit, I shall list all these physical signs in brief: he sits up straight, he is fragrant, he is beautiful, and he is a receptacle for the nectar of the gods. Arambha, ghata, parichaya, and then nishpatti: these stages of Yoga arise in all Yogas. I have described arambha. Now, for the mastery of breath, I shall describe the next, which results in the destruction of all suffering and sin. The yogi has a strong digestive fire, eats well, is happy, has a beautiful body, is big hearted, and has great willpower and strength. All these signs are sure to arise in the body of the yogi. Yogis should always eat when the wind has entered the sun. The best practitioners rest when the wind has entered the moon. The wise do not practise straight after eating or when hungry. The practitioner should practice daily at the aforementioned times. At the yogi's first attempts, sweat is produced on his body. When sweat is produced, the wise yogi should rub it in or the essential constituents of his body will be lost. In the second stage there is trembling, in the middle stage the practitioner is said to jump about like a frog, and from further practice a good practitioner can fly. When the yogi sitting Padmasana leaves the ground, know that to be mastery of air, the destroyer of the darkness of samsara. One should observe the rules for Yoga that have been mentioned until sleep, defecation, and urination diminish. The yogi who experiences the ultimate reality is not ill or depressed. Neither sweat, saliva, nor worms, nor imbalances of kapha, pitta, and vata arise in the body of the practitioner. Then the practitioner need not observe dietary restrictions. The yogi is not troubled if he eats very little or very much. Through the power of practice, the yogi obtains Bhuchari siddhi, whereby he can move like the animals which are hard to catch when hands are clapped. In Yoga, there are a lot of fearsome obstacles that are hard to avoid, despite which the yogi should keep on striving, even if he is at his last gasp. Thereupon the practitioner, sitting in private with his sense organs restrained, should intone the syllable om in order to get rid of obstacles. By means of pranayama, the wise practitioner is sure to destroy all the karmas he has previously acquired and those which have arisen in this life. The best yogi gets rid of the various good and bad deeds he has amassed in the past by means of sixteen pranayamas. Only by gradual practice can the yogi hold his breath for three ghatikas [one ghatika is twenty-four minutes], by which he is sure to get the complete success that he desires. Mastery of speech, the ability to go where he wants, long-distance vision and hearing, subtle sight, the ability to enter another's body, the power of producing gold by smearing objects with one's feces and urine, and the capacity to make things invisible--these, and the ability to move through space, arise in great yogis. When the great ghata stage arises for the practitioner of pranayama, then there is nothing he cannot accomplish on the wheel of samsara. It is called ghata because prana and apana, nada and bindu, and jivatma and paramatma come together and unite. Only when the yogi is able to hold the breath for one yama [a yama is three hours] without tiring does pratyahara arise. It definitely does not happen otherwise. When through application of the practice he can hold his breath for a full yama, then the yogi should practice kumbhaka once a day. When the yogi's breath does not move for eight dandas, then that wise man has the power to stand on his thumb as if he were made of air. After this, with practice the yogi attains the stage of parichaya, when the breath leves the sun and the moon and stays still. Then the great yogi should practice the fivefold dharana, by means of which he masters earth and the other elements and has nothing to fear from any of them. ----------------------------------------- Swami Vive Kananda was questioned concerning the truthfulness of the marvelous stories of the performance of wonderful feats of conjuring, levitation, suspended animation, and the like in India. Vive Kananda said: "We do not believe in miracles at all but that apparently strange things may be accomplished under the operation of natural laws. There is a vast amount of literature in India on these subjects, and the people there have made a study of these things. "Thought-reading and the foretelling of events are successfully practiced by the Hathayogis. "As to levitation, I have never seen anyone overcome gravitation and rise by will into the air, but I have seen many who were trying to do so. They read books published on the subject and spend years trying to accomplish the feat. Some of them in their efforts nearly starve themselves and become so thin that if one presses his finger upon their stomachs he can actually feel the spine. "Some of these Hathayogis live to a great age." The subject of suspended animation was broached and the Hindu monk told the Commercial reporter that he himself had known a man who went into a sealed cave, which was then closed up with a trap door, and remained there for many years without food. There was a decided stir of interest among those who heard this assertion. Vive Kananda entertained not the slightest doubt of the genuineness of this case. He says that in the case of suspended animation, growth is for the time arrested. He says the case of the man in India who was buried with a crop of barley raised over his grave and who was finally taken out still alive is perfectly well authenticated. He thinks the studies which enabled persons to accomplish that feat were suggested by the hibernating animals. Vive Kananda said that he had never seen the feat which some writers have claimed has been accomplished in India, of throwing a rope into the air and the thrower climbing up the rope and disappearing out of sight in the distant heights. A lady present when the reporter was interviewing the monk said some one had asked her if he, Vive Kananda, could perform wonderful tricks, and if he had been buried alive as a part of his installation in the Brotherhood. The answer to both questions was a positive negative. "What have those things to do with religion?" he asked. "Do they make a man purer? The Satan of your Bible is powerful, but differs from God in not being pure." Speaking of the sect of Hathayoga, Vive Kananda said there was one thing, whether a coincidence or not, connected with the initiation of their disciples, which was suggestive of the one passage in the life of Christ. They make their disciples live alone for just forty days. "The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are fragments of that universal mind, little waves in the ocean; and on account of this continuity, we can convey our thoughts directly to one another." Also Vivekananda's encounter with a telepath: https://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/unpublished/i_your_highness.htm Aurobindo's encounter with a wizard setting rocks to attack his house: https://auromaa.org/13-4-the-stone-throwing-incident/ In this video he electrocutes people and sets newspaper on fire, genuinely: Study with children being able to see with increasingly impaired physical view:

His understanding of it seems pretty mental. There are planes above the mental he's not conscious of, and what he does have he hasn't integrated into his body and senses or the physical world, except to get attention from others. And I feel like if he heard you call him special he would just give some platitude like, "ahaha, you think you're special too, my friend? We are all special in our own way we're all unique, but we are all just parts of the whole, we are not separate. we are like individual notes in a symphony, important for the overall sound but not the whole symphony. it is important to know we are not special and yet we are all special"

There are yogis that have mastered kumbhaka enough that they can do apparently superhuman things. Sadhguru can't, because he's too lazy.

Sadhguru is the Trump of yoga.