# Psychic battle with Hindu saints

- Teacher: Ajahn Brahm
- Type: Story
- URL: https://beingmindfulstories.com/stories/brahm-meditation-psychic-battle-hindu-saints
- Themes: meditation, humour, mind
- Life situations: distraction in meditation

## Synopsis (editorial summary)

In early meditation Ajahn Brahm's mind put on a movie: a psychic battle with Hindu saints flying and levitating and zapping each other. He enjoyed it — and of course, because it was his movie, he won.

## The story, as told by Ajahn Brahm (verbatim captions)

I was fighting the psychic battle with the Hindu Saint flying around the air and they're levitating all over the place and zapping each other in my little movie really good fun so I was enjoying it of course because it was my movie I won as usually happens totally egotistical

## Teaching point

Be kind to the mind's fantasies; after they have had their play they settle by themselves.

## Reflection (in the spirit of Ajahn Brahm's talk)

In an early meditation, Ajahn Brahm's mind screened an epic psychic battle with flying saints, which of course he won; it was his movie. The mind sometimes just needs to play. Don't scold it or think you've failed. Be kind, let the fantasy run its course, and it settles down by itself.

## Source

- [Expectations | Ajahn Brahm | 15 April 2016](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV0wiAuOqik) (Buddhist Society of Western Australia) — watch from 50:47 to 51:09: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV0wiAuOqik&t=3047s

Other tellings of this story:

- [Guided Meditation | Ajahn Brahm | 21 March 2026](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQkhNPdWXMw) (Buddhist Society of Western Australia) — watch from 12:17 to 12:39: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQkhNPdWXMw&t=737s