Light of Nonviolence

Author(s): Sushilmuni
Publisher: Vishwa Ahimsa Sangh Delhi

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man and a Fakir or Moslem monk had done some special yogic practices together. Before long, the businessmanturned-monk began to leave his body.
Although I was still very young and I could not reason much about such matters, I became intrigued by the idea of anyone being able to leave his body. I made it the goal of my early life to learn how to leave my body, without really knowing why. At the same time, though I knew no guru or yogi to help me to achieve my goal, I was a very innocent child who was prepared to believe anything that someone told him.
Near my new village of Raisina was a pond or watering hole for the animals and birds of the forest. I would go there often to sit and watch lions, tigers, panthers, and peacocks. Near the pond was a very small cave where yogis had been practicing years ago. For two years, when I went to the watering hole near the cave, I felt the presence of spirits on astral beings-perhaps 50 or 60 times. But I kept the whole thing a secret and on vacations from school or on the slightest excuse I would go to look at the animals and to experience the yogis.
In those days, I was simply experiencing things and I could not reason about what I saw and felt. But I had many talks of philosophical depth with my grandfather about psychic and astrological phenomena. His loving interest and nurturing of my boyhood curiosity kept me very interested in the disappearing yogis and the experi
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