Shivabalayogi on Medicines for Meditation

Swamiji answers questions about the effect of drugs on meditation. "He shall not return to the drugs once he gets into meditation. "In England, these people had brought the medicine ... to Swamiji himself and asked him to bless it. He says that he asked them, for what do you use this? Then the person answered that the people who taught him Transcendental Meditation had given that to him. And he was told that if he takes that he will have good meditation. It happened in England, he says, and he had to pay a hundred dollars for that. "He says as long as they say it’s a medicine, it’s for the body, it’s for healing, then it is OK. But they had mentioned that it helps the meditation, it helps the samadhi. That’s where he disagrees. "So when he heard this, he says he scolded, he reprimanded Maharshi’s brother and his nephew a lot. He told them that the line of devotion will get spoiled because of what you are doing." Recorded in Las Vegas, USA, on April 16, 1991.