23 siddhis- attainments.( A REPOST )

03-20-2002, 10:26 PM

adi_shakthi16

There are twenty three siddhis in all which have been graded into
three classes; Great, Medium and Small. The great siddhis are eight
in number and are very difficult to acquire. Only he who is
established in the Self, who has lost all consciousness of his body
and of the sense of "I" and "mine", such a one can acquire them. The
Medium siddhis are ten in number and a seeker with divine qualities
and who is pure at heart gets them. The small siddhis are five and he
whose heart is purified through devotion or yoga can acquire them.

The Great siddhis are as follows:

1. Anima: the reduction of one's form to an atom, assuming the
subtle
and invisible state.

2. Mahima or garima: to make the body weighty or heavy.

3. Laghima: to make the body excessively light and beyond what is
natural.

4. Prapti: to acquire objects of sense pertaining to the respective
organs.

5. Praakaashya: to see and know invisible things in the other
worlds.

6. Ishitaa: to stimulate bodies and creatures; to have control over
natural forces.

7. Vashitaa: to have supremacy over the senses.

8. Yatkaamastadavasyati: literally, the power to obtain joys in the
three worlds effortlessly, by mere willing. However, this power
leads
to the state of the highest bliss through ending of all desires.

The Medium siddhis are as follows:

1. Anoomimattvam: The six modifications of being (oormis), namely,
hunger, thirst, grief or sorrow (soka), infatuation (stepefaction),
delusion/confusion of mind (moha), old age and death do not
disagree
with and effect injuriously, the body.

2. Doorshravan: to hear, sitting at one place, speech from however
distant a place.

3. Doordarshan: to see, sitting at one place, events and things in
all
the three worlds.

4. Manojava: the body travels at the speed of mind to any place one
desires.

5. Kaamaroopa: to assume at once any form one desires

6. Parakaayapravesh: to enter into another's body, dead or alive,
temporarily leaving one's own body.

7. Swachchandamrutyu: to die at one's own will, death having no
control over one.

8. Sahakridanudarshanam: to see the sports of gods in heaven and
have capacity and prowess to participate in it.

9. Yathaasamkalpa samsiddhi: to attain whatever is desired.

10. Ajnaapratihataagatih: whereby one's command and movement
have no obstruction.

The Small siddhis are as follows:

1. Trikaalajriatvam: the knowledge of the past, present and
future.

2. Advandvam: to be beyond the control of the quality of
pleasure-pain, cold-heat, soft-very hard.

3. Parachittaadyabhijnataa: to tell about another's dream or to
know
his mind.

4. Pratishtambah: to stop the effect of fire, wind, water, weapon,
poison and the sun.

5. Aparaajayah: not being defeated by anybody; being victorious
everywhere.

gUYS, NOW TELL ME is the purpose of tantra or any other sadhna
is the attainment of siddhis or spiritual upliftment -that is to
realize the
divinity within?

Do we all want to be like Hanuman who had such great siddhis -
mahima -where he could make his body excessively heavy or laghima
-where hanuman made his body excessively light?

is the ultimate purpose of tantra is to acquire siddhis?

1) to attract the opposite gender - to what avail? one can go to a
great plastic surgeon for that and look like million dollars!!!!
lol!!!

2) or to acquire siddhis to punish one's enemies- but the ***
enemies*** are not hiding in the caves of afghanistan , these
enemies
are hiding right in the cave of one's heart- lust, ego, pride,
arrogance,
greed, anger etc etc..

why do i want to know my future ? i already know my past! unless,
one wants to use these siddhis to make money or use it for
commercial purposes. Jyotish sastra is a very sacred science and if
used for commercial purposes, it is unethical ! where were all
these
jyotish gurus when the sept 11 attacks took place? how come they
could not predict this great tragedy or prevent it?

OUR SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHAMSA WAS A GREAT
TANTRIK but he never used his siddhis to 'hurt' anyone. His whole
mission in life was to help his disciples spread the word
of 'divinity'
and help the 'poor and the oppressed' !

to me, the mother goddess is 'pleasing' and 'endearing' in all her
aspect- 'ugra' or 'sowmya' ! i do not see her as a punishing
goddess
or a rewarding goddess - rather i see our divine mother as one who
'protects' us and helps us to swim across the ocean of samsara- of
repeated births and deaths!

Love