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(brahmarandhra). The heart and the pulse will stop when the
soul is pulled all the way into the brahmarandhra. The heart, the
pulse etc., function only when the soul is up to the waist, but if
it goes any higher, then all the internal machinery will stop
running. If a person performs such yoga at the age of 15 years,
three months, three days, three hours and three minutes, and if
that yoga lasts for one thousand years, then at the end of the
thousand years, his life span will begin again at the age of 15
years, three months, three days, three hours and three minutes.
His life span is proportionately used up in accordance with the
number of heartbeats that were expended up to that point in
time. A person’s duration of life is dependant upon the number
of his or her heartbeats. In doing this yoga, for whatever
duration of time the heart stops beating, his life span is spared
for that duration of time. Ordinarily people cannot save it, only
those who perform this kind of yoga can do so. The body will
not rot or shrivel and it will not smell. It will remain the same as
long as there is a presence of the soul in it. It does not matter
even if the body becomes like a stone because of this yoga.
Questioner : What is the state of the soul during this
time?
Dadashri : It is as if the soul is tied up in a sack. Now
what good does that do to the soul? The only thing about this
practice is that the yogi can have the ego of claiming to live a
thousand years in that yoga. His worldly suffering and misery will
stop for that duration; however there is no bliss in it. Bliss can
only arise if one remains as the Self. When can he make use of
the soul? He can only do so when the heart is working. Nothing
can be achieved otherwise.
Many Yogis tell their disciples to break a coconut on their
heads after they have pulled their soul to the brahmarandhra! As
if one can go to moksha by doing this! They believe that if ‘life’
(soul) leaves through the crown of the head, it is headed for