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OOBE- Out of Body
Experience is Real!
By Santhanam Nagarajan
An interesting incident in the life of Ramana will explain
about OOBE. ‘Vasishtha Ganapathi muni’ proclaimed Ramana
of Thiruvannamalai, India,as “Maharishi’ meaning ‘Great
Sage’ to the whole world.
Once 'Ganapathi muni' went to Thiruvotriur , now a part of
Chennai, India. He started doing penance in the Ganehsa
Temple. On the eighteenth day a strange thing happened.
The Muni was wide awake, sitting and meditating. He
suddenly saw Ramana there. Surprised he got up hurriedly
with devotion welling up in his heart; but Ramana put his
hand on the Muni’s head and made him sit down. The Muni
was surprised and thrilled because the whole world knows
that Ramana has never moved out of Thiruvannamalai.
When Ramana touched the
Muni, a great Force cascaded through his frame. Billows of
sheer joy rose from his heart and overflowed. At the same
time, what happened to Ramana in Thiruvannamalai, he
himself narrated later on in the course of conversation.
At that time, Ramana was as usual sitting in a cave on the
hill of Thiruvannamalai.He experienced that from his heart
a ray of light rose and darted through his head outside.
Along with it Ramana went up the sky traveling on the path
of the luminaries. He heard some-where the word
Thiruvotriyur and came down. He walked up the road in
front of him, saw the Ganesha Temple and entered it.
He spoke to Ganapathi Muni and touched him.
ESP Projection, ‘astral projection’, ‘out of body
experience’ are nearly, if not entirely, synonymous terms.
A study of ESP projection was reported by Homell Hart
(1954), the chairman of a committee appointed for the
purpose at an international congress in Europe. Hart
defined a ‘full-fledged’ projection ideally as a situation
in which a ‘projected’ individual carries within himself
‘full memories and purposes’ during his projection out of
his body and afterwards. Robert Crookall devoted nine
volumes to out of body experiences. South African
investigator J.CPoynton has collected 122 cases. English
researcher Celia Green has brought 326 cases.
Astral body can be explained as an exact replica of the
physical body but composed of finer matter.
Coming back to Ramana’s incident, Ramana exclaimed that he
understood the way the Siddhas (meaning perfect souls or
sages) travel in the air from place to place.
The OOBE experience is a step in Yoga siddhi (meaning one
of the benefits of Yoga). One who understands yoga and
practice it could very easily understand OOBE.
S Nagarajan is a vehicle body engineer by profession. He
has written more than 1300 articles in 16 magazines and
published 18 books. He is revealing Eastern Secret Wisdom
through T.V. Programmes, magazine articles, seminars,
courses. His email address is: snagarajans@gmail.com. His
articles on Yoga, laughter, efficacy of mantras and sound,
Hypnotism, Tele Kinesis, Power of Prayer, Vastu and Feng
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