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Lost In the Story of Miracles - Yogi Explains

Summary

, 11 min

Why chasing other people's miracle stories disempowers meditators and numbs them to subtle signs such as synchronicities, the Four Proofs and the Freeze Response. Covers being at cause versus at effect, the Big Baba Syndrome of hanging one's power on an outer guru, and why true yoga and the true guru are always interior.

In this video

Teaches
MiraclesBig Baba Syndrome
Discusses
Being at causeSamadhiAutobiography of a YogiParamahansa YoganandaGuru
Mentions
Tad JamesNeuro-linguistic programming (NLP)Time Line TherapyMitranandaSynchronicityFour Proofs of MeditationFreeze Response

Key moments

00:00Yogis getting lost in other people's stories01:03Tad James: are you at cause or at effect?02:48Getting hooked into somebody else's story03:05Missing his own Samadhi because of Yogananda's Samadhi poem03:59Autobiography of a Yogi and Mitrananda's warning about miracles04:46Yogananda's story of the young man who walked across water05:32The shiny toy makes you miss subtle things07:24The Big Baba Syndrome08:11True yoga and the true guru are always interior09:30Your own way: visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, smelling roses