Message #14694

[Jitendra Hydonus]

To a great extent most of us know what it is to have food, sex and sleep. However do we know what experiences are to be had by refraining from our bodily needs?

Once I remember having an out-of-body experience while being deprived of sleep. While being
without sex for years I heard astral music regularly and being without food helped my powers of concentration in new and different ways...it also left me feeling more in control of this body and realizing how much we are slaves to our desires. Not that any of these things are bad in themselves but that we are not in control of our so called needs. We have become prisoners to our bodies.