The ancient Hindu Sages and Kings had special powers,were super humans and had contact with Gods. Any comments

Answer 1

Why only ancient sages ?
Even in modern times there are many such examples (like Paramhansa, vivekananda, Aurobindo, Chaitnaya,Namdev etc)

Hinduism believes God can be experienced in this life.. there is no need to wait for the death !!

Yoga, meditation and Tantra kriyas are the tools by which we can see god..here and now !!

Who knows what wil happen after death... so take this birth and make it divine by meeting god ... is the moto of Hinduism

Answer 2

Whether they did or did not is irrelevant. Hinduism, like most other Eastern Religions, emphasizes that you experience the teachings for yourself rather than just believe them blindly. It can best be summed up in a quote a Buddhist teacher once told me "try it and if you get nothing from it then move on to something else." That's sort of the spirit of Eastern religions in general. That what you experience from the practices that are taught are more important that whether or not the stories about super powers, etc, are true. Afterall if Truth is inherent in the nature of reality itself and that all who peer into the depths of their inner nature can discover It, then that is what they should do....no matter which path gets them there. Generally speaking the stories are usually full of symbolism and meaning and are actually interesting ways of teaching various lessons about our own inner nature .

Although, the stories just wouldn't be as much fun to read without all the sages and kings and princes and princesses with special powers, etc, and interacting with the devas and asuras.

Answer 3

I dont believe it.God dont teach any body to do killingand to hate others.these people were clever and cheaters they make u and me a fool spome time by the name of God ,godess,king ,queens etc
try to liove piecefully if they let u ?special powers my foot.

Answer 4

They saintly persons are not interested in special powers exhibiting super human activities. There are eight kind of siddhi(perfections),viz., anima(becoming smaller than smallest), mahima(becoming bigger than biggest), laghima (becoming lighter than lightest), etc. . ., one achieves by practicing the astanga-yoga (eight fold mystic process). But these are only material things and are distractions on the path of spiritual realization.

They were only interested in self realization and ultimately God realization, establishing sweet loving relationship with the Lord. They were least interested in the flickering super human powers which are material and temporary.

Purport to (Srimad Bhagavatam 2.4.19 by A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,
Founder-Acharya of ISKCON
(International Society for Krishna Consciousness)

The Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, although the Lord of all followers of different paths of self-realization, is knowable only by those who are above all pretensions. Everyone is searching for eternal peace or eternal life, and with an aim to this destination everyone is either studying the Vedic scriptures or other religious scriptures or undergoing severe austerity as empiric philosophers, as mystics yogis or as unalloyed devotees, etc. But the Supreme Lord is perfectly realized only by the devotees because they are above all pretensions. Those who are on the path of self-realization are generally classified as karmis, jnanis, yogis, or devotees of the Lord. The karmis, who are much attracted by the fruitive activities of the Vedic rituals, are called bhukti-kami, or those who desire material enjoyment. The jnanis, who try to become one with the Supreme by mental speculation, are called mukti-kami, or those who desire liberation from material existence. The mystic yogis, who practice different types of austerities for attainment of eight kinds of material perfection and who ultimately meet the Supersoul (Paramatma) in trance, are called siddhi-kami, or those who desire the perfection of becoming finer than the finest, becoming heavier than the heaviest, getting everything desired, having control over everyone, creating everything liked, etc. All these are abilities of a powerful yogé. But the devotees of the Lord do not want anything like that for self-satisfaction. They want only to serve the Lord because the Lord is great and as living entities they are eternally subordinate parts and parcels of the Lord. This perfect realization of the self by the devotee helps him to become desireless, to desire nothing for his personal self, and thus the devotees are called niskami, without any desire. A living entity, by his constitutional position, cannot be void of all desires (the bhukti-kami, mukti-kami and siddhi-kami all desire something for personal satisfaction), but the niskami devotees of the Lord desire everything for the satisfaction of the Lord. They are completely dependent on the orders of the Lord and are always ready to discharge their duty for the satisfaction of the Lord.