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Alain Danielou - While the Gods Play - On Siddhis [magic powers]
Identifier
022570
Type of Spiritual Experience
Environmental influence
Exploring group perception
Inter composer communication
Invisible input - wisdom
Out of body
Vision
Background
A description of the experience
Commentary on the Samkhya-Karika, 23
The Yogi who has perfected the Siddhi(s) thus acquires powers "which belong to the gods" (aishvarya) and which are essentially the power of vision (drikshakti) or power of knowledge (jnana-shakti), that is to say, omniscience, as well as the powers of action (kriya-shakti), which are nine in number:
- Anima (atomization), enabling the perception of the infinitely small, the structures of atoms
- Mahima (immensity), enabling one to see the exterior, the structures of the galaxies
- Garima (gravity), permitting one to assume an enormous weight
- Laghima (lightness), permitting levitation
- Prapti (obtainment), permitting one to obtain an object wherever it might be
- Prakamya (at will), enabling one to transport oneself to any location
- Ishitva (dominion), the power of control over the natural world, enabling one to arrest wind, provoke rain or storms, etc.
- Vashitva (holding in one's power), permitting one to have power over any being; hypnotism is an elementary form of it
- Yatrakamavasayitva (transformation at will), allowing the adept to take on any form, that of a god, a giant, a blade of grass