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== The practice of yoga ==
== The practice of yoga ==


Those in the East who practice yoga may develop special powers called [[siddhis]]. These include many of the miraculous feats we have heard of in the West: knowledge of the past and future, knowledge of past lives, great strength, walking on water, flying, bilocation, mastery of the elements, the ability to surround oneself with a blaze of light, and the ability to choose the time of one’s death. Some of these seemingly miraculous abilities were demonstrated by [[Jesus]] and by some modern Christian saints such as [[Padre Pio]].   
Los orientales que practican yoga pueden desarrollar unos poderes especiales, denominados «siddhis». Entre ellos están las hazañas milagrosas de las que hemos oído hablar en occidente: saber el pasado y el futuro, conocer vidas pasadas, poseer una gran fuerza física, la capacidad de caminar sobre el agua, la de volar, la bilocación, el dominio de los elementos, la capacidad de rodearse de un resplandor de luz y la de elegir cuándo morir. Algunas de estas capacidades aparentemente milagrosas fueron demostradas por Jesús y por algunos santos cristianos de los tiempos modernos, como el Padre Pío.   


But the siddhis are not the goal. In fact, it is the supreme test of the yogi to give them up. Patanjali in his classic Yoga Sutras (written in the second century <small>B</small>.<small>C</small>.) refers to these supernatural powers as “obstacles to [[samadhi]].... By giving up even these powers, the seed of evil is destroyed and liberation follows.”<ref>Patanjali, Yoga Sutras 3:38, 51, in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, trans., ''How to Know God'' (Hollywood, Calif.: Vedanta Press, 1981), pp. 188, 194.</ref> Jesus demonstrated this when he successfully passed the three tests of Satan in the wilderness.<ref>Matt. 4:1–11; Luke 4:1–12.</ref>   
But the siddhis are not the goal. In fact, it is the supreme test of the yogi to give them up. Patanjali in his classic Yoga Sutras (written in the second century <small>B</small>.<small>C</small>.) refers to these supernatural powers as “obstacles to [[samadhi]].... By giving up even these powers, the seed of evil is destroyed and liberation follows.”<ref>Patanjali, Yoga Sutras 3:38, 51, in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, trans., ''How to Know God'' (Hollywood, Calif.: Vedanta Press, 1981), pp. 188, 194.</ref> Jesus demonstrated this when he successfully passed the three tests of Satan in the wilderness.<ref>Matt. 4:1–11; Luke 4:1–12.</ref>   
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