The Ability of Curse and Favour

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The ability of curse and favour, the ability to help or harm another simply via the Force and Formation of will, is noted as a Connection Outcome in the Yoga Sastra of Hemacandra[1] It is an example of the Enhanced Power Over Creation that often attends Connection Experience.

Examples

Enhanced Power over Creation > Arendi, Direct Mental Interaction With Living Systems, Levitation, Teleportation, The Ability of Curse and Favour, Walking on Air

List of Connection Outcomes

Connection Outcome > Connection Pathology, Déjà vu, Emotional Cleansing, Emotional Satisfaction, Enlightenment, Existential Terrors, Healing, Liberation, Perfect Connection, Perfected Connection, Perfection, Physical Sensations, Psychotic Mysticism, Realization of Self, Ritambharapragya, Spontaneous Alignment, The Unity, Transformation, Union

Notes

"The fortune of the blossoming flowers of the [fabulous] wishing tree of yoga consists of [supernatural attainments (labdhi), such as] walking in the air (caarana), the ability of curse and favour (asivisa), extra-ordinary perception (avadhi), and mind-reading (manahparyaya)."[2]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Quarnstrom, Olle, trans. The YogaSastra of Hemacandra: A Twelfth-Century Handbook on Svetambara Jainism. Cambridge: Harvard University, 2002. p. 9
  2. ↑ Quarnstrom, Olle, trans. The YogaSastra of Hemacandra: A Twelfth Century Handbook on Svetambara Jainism. Cambridge: Harvard University, 2002. p. 21.



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