Excerpt from The God Factor
“You must have seen hath yogi, sitting over the mat of iron pins. Can you imagine sitting like this. You cannot do this, even in imagination; such a difficult task for the body and very painful. Why you can’t do this? It is because your body is more sensitive than the body of that hath yogi. What has been happened to his body? He has made his body insensitive, by practicing sitting long on same position over pins. In the beginning this practice was uncomfortable even for him. But by practicing on regular basis the sense mechanism of his body became lesser and lesser efficient in sensing the pain given by the pins. And, now he can sit easily over the mat. So, now his mechanism to sense touch on that particular area of his body is not working properly; and signals from that part is not reaching in proper manner to the brain. This was an example to illustrate, how the sense mechanism of your body can be affected, in gross ways. Take another example: A patient of Cataract cannot ...