Padmasana

Padmasana-sthite devi
parabrama svarupini,
Paramesi jagan matar-
mahalaksmi namo stu te.

It means Mahalaxmi, you sit in padmasana, you are para Brahma and Creator of all the different worlds and I bow to you

So this is an Asana described in Yoga. Many people have claimed many benefits of the Asana The Asana can cure all diseases and even the great Mahalaxmi is padmasane sthite. 15 minutes of the Asana gives samadhi.

Those are the claims. So the different web pages extol it. Hatha yoga extols it.

But wait a minute – if that’s all it takes why don’t I see millions of perfected people out there? In other online web pages many other benefits have been described.

And there in lies stupidity of humans. So stupid that they don’t even realize they are foolish. So you can blindly how what is written in scriptures and keep doing padmasana. You may have some smaller benefits. But curing all diseases? Or samadhi?

And then when it fails you will say the scriptures are wrong.

So people follow a trend. They get excited about a path. Follow it and then a few years later give up on it. Saying it is not accurate ( unless they make you an official of the society or cult). And the scriptures are given a bad name.

But very rarely does someone say I believe the scripture but I misunderstood it. That I was doing padmasana incorrectly. What do you mean I was doing the incorrectly. I have seen video taped, scoured through countless web pages and I am doing it right.

I hate to break it to you – but is it possible, that all web pages are wrong? Ok for course it is.

So what is Padmasana ?