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Nagarjuna, the alchemist, magician and philosopher who lived 2000 years ago gives details of doing magic in front of others. He gives details of incredible and amazing things in 140 Sanskrit couplets in his book Yogaratnamala.
Here are some slokas:
1.Prepare an oil out of Sasija (Pramalia perforata), jalauka (water leech) frog and patala (Steriospermum sauraresbus) and apply this oil to your feet. You can easily cross the burning charcoals without feeling any harm caused by it.
2.Prepare an ointment mixing together Mundi (Saphaerenthes indicus ), leech, and shaibal (Parmelia perforata) with the fat of a frog and apply it to your hands and feet, then cross on the fire. The fire becomes cold and does not cause any harm.
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Walking on Water
1.Pour the blood of Dundubha ( a snake having two mouths) in a capsule and put this capsule into your mouth and enter water. You can stay under water as easily as in your house as long as you desire.
2.Prepare two shoes out of the seeds of Syonak (Grokylum indicum) well powdered and enter into water wearing the shoes. You can walk on the water as easily as you walk on the ground.
3.Prepare an oil out of butter, Suvarna gairika (Pure Red Achre Haematika), Durgandha and fish oil, and apply it to your whole body. Then you can move intothe water freely like a crocodile.
(From the above slokas we can surmise that the animal and plant products help one to walk on fire or water. Tamil poems also enumerate a long list of magical or miraculous deeds. But saints can do such miracles even without the above aids. Adi Shankara’s disciple Padmapathar walked on water without any aid. But one Hata yogi challenged Sathya Sai Baba and told that he would walk on water. But he fell into water in front of a big gathering of general public and journalists!)
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Another episode
When Yogi Rao walked on water (June 2016)
Lakshmanasandra Srikanta Rao was an Indian yogi who claimed to have such total control over his body that he could eat glass, swallow poison, eat live vipers, walk on fire, and even survive an atomic bomb. But basically he was just a stage magician who knew a few tricks and put on a good act.
He made headlines in the 1950s when he moved to America and gained heiress Doris Duke as a follower, but he returned to India after only a few months, apparently recognizing that he had gotten in over his head and promised his followers more than he could deliver.
He laid low until 1966 when he returned to headlines with his claim that he was going to publicly walk on water. Over 600 paid to see him do this, including some of the most famous people in India. But Rao took one step and plunged right to the bottom of the pool he was supposed to walk across.
What had he been thinking? Had he somehow convinced himself that he really could walk on water? Maybe. He was later quoted as expressing regret at his failure, saying, “I am so angry that I feel like drowning myself even if I have to tie a stone round my neck to do so.”
Two years later he offered to try again, to prove he was for real, but the performance never happened.
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Tags- Magic , Walking on Water, Walking on Fire, Yogaratnamala, Nagarjuna
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