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Ashta Siddhi
Ashta Siddhi
Ashta Siddhi
SJC Conference Europe 2006
Serbia, Novi Sad
Introduction:
Ashtha Siddhi The eight renowned accomplishments of ancient India
through which one can gain miraculous powers.
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Word siddhi we can divide into the 2 word: Sidh and Dhi. Sidh means: to
move, to go, to attain one's aim or object have success and Dhi means intelect. So
whole story about siddhi is based on improving intelect, to move our intelect
towards highest goal, illumination. Lord Shiva is the achiever of the eight Siddhi
and His worship as the Teacher is symbolic of the perfection of divinity.
A Siddha is one who has succeeded in stabilizing these controls in oneself and
maintains equanimity and a sense of equilibrium. Today, only a few Yogis
possess these Siddhis.
In his work Yoga Sutra, Patanjali on the beginning of the fourth chapter,
whose name is Kaivalya2 says:
jNmaE;ixmtp>smaixja> isy>. 1.
janmauadhimantratapasamdhij siddhaya || 1||
Siddhis are gained through birth, specific herbs, mantras, austerities, or samadhi.
Yoga sutra of Patanjali IV book kaivalyapda verse 1
Remaining unattached, always perform the obligatory duty, for, by performing (ones) duty
without attachment, a person attains the Highest. Translation by Swami Gambhrnanda.
2
Perfect isolation, detachment from all other connections, which leading to eternal emancipation.
Siddhis may also be attained through pratibha (intuition, or inner light of wisdom), thus
knowledge of everything arises spontaneously.
Yoga sutra of Patanjali III book vibhtipda verse 33
Here we see that there is various ways for the native to acquire siddhis. If
Patanjali said that Siddhis can be gained through birth, we can assume that
knowledge about them can come from previous birth.
From the Jyotish perspective Patanjali said that siddhis are develop
through Lagna (birth), forth house (specific herbs), fifth house (mantras), eight or
nine house (austerities) or twelve house (samadhi).
From this we can conclude that there are 2 ways to attain the siddhi: through the
dharma trikona and through the moksha trikona.
Ashta Vasava
Among 33 devas there are eight vasus which are the givers of light. The 8
vasus give light from which we get enlightenment and then knowledge. This is
the original light, which has a control over our minds.
The 8 vasus are:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Surya
Chandra
Agni (Mangal)
Prithvi (Budh)
Vayu (Shani)
Jala (Shukra)
Antariksh (Guru)
Nakshtrani
Again we have number eight. So to attain these eight vasus native need to do
something what will bring him to those eight lights of enlightenment. That are
eight siddhis.
dzma<ze mhT)lm!,
daame mahatphalam |
Power (and position) from Dashamsha
Here is take closer look on meaning of the word Mahatphalam, we will se
that real meaning of that is Mahat big, huge, great and Phalam fruit,
consequence, result.
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devata is Indra. So east is point of creation. Therefore, Surya rules the east
and desires the throne which is the natural desire of the King
vizTv (Vasitva) domination over the entire creation Mangal rules the
South and devata is Yama. The desire and the purpose of the worrior is to
kill the enemy. So if we do not achieve higher goal, Yama will definitely
come for us.
Girm (Garima) - the ability to reach every where Budha rules the North
and devata is Kubera. Budha is karaka for communication and ruling the
trade and organizing material resources naturally desires the wealth
which is signified by Lord Kubera.
mihm
li"m (Laghima) the ability to float through the air Shukra rules the
Southeast, and devata is Agni. Shukra rules the peace and as long as
Shukra is strong, the God of war becomes weak. Shukra also rules
entertainment which also requires a lot of energy Agni. Thus, Agni is the
need and desire of Shukra, not her goal.
Ainm
(Anima)
the West and devata is Varuna. Lord Varuna, is ruler of the ocean. And for
ocean, we know that is the same constitution in one drop and in the huge
ocean.
Now we must differentiate to chakras. One is Kalachakra, and the the other one
is dig chakra. In Kalachakra there are eight directions where four kendras are
ruled by two luminaries and Guru and Shukra. Kendras are the places where
energy is entering and four rest are the places where energy getting out.
The planets have digbala in the directions as indicated and to ascertain whether
they really have this strength we have to consider their position from the (1)
lagna and (2) aruha lagna.
Graha devatas indicate MOTIVATION and DESIRE of a graha. This is very
important.
From these verses we can see that siddhis are definitely not a final goal. It
can be helpful to some extent but in native need to give up from them to achieve
samadhi.
Asta Siddhi is of three orders, two siddhis of knowledge (garima and
prakamya), three siddhis of power (prapti, vasitva and kamavasayitva) and three
siddhis of the body (anima, mahima and laghima).
Graha
Kala
chakra
Dig
chakra
Siddhi
Type
Surya
Shukra
Mangal
Rahu
Shani
Chandra
Budha
Guru
East
West
South East
North East
North West
North
South West
South
East
South East
South
South West
West
North West
North
North East
Prakamya
Laghima
Vasitva
Kamavasayitva
Anima
Prapti
Garima
Mahima
Body
Body
Body
Knowledge
Power
Knowledge
Power
Power
Naturaly, Ketu is not include in this concept because it represet Moksha Marga
and his direction is upwards.
specific siddhi and to see will we got that siddhi we must confirm that in various
Vargas.
In the first example we got chart of His Holliness
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who bring Patanjali Sutras to the
west. He also began movement of Transcendental
Meditation and advance stage of meditation called Siddhi
program. In his case, Rahu is Darakaraka, placed in
twelwe bhava in yuti with Atma Karaka. Rahu also
having drishti on Lagna, forth and eight house (all four of
this Grahas was mentioned in Patanjalis Sutras. Rahu is
vargotama placed in Dhanus.
But to comfirm that person have a siddhi we need to check Navamsha also,
especially Karakamsa.
And in Dasamsha we see that there is again yuti of Darakaraka and Atma
Karaka. Surya is ruling over third bhava which is Guru upadesha. Chandra as
bhatru Karaka is placed in forth bhava from Aruda Lagna and having Digbala.
Dasamsa Devata of Rahu and Surya is Ananta going upwards.
Maharishi Parasara states:
iv*aya vedb<ze.
vidyy vedabahvae ||
Learning/Education should be discerned through the 1/24th (Chaturvimsamsa ) division
of Rasi.
Here Parashara used word vidy which refers to vidy whose primary meaning
is knowledge, which can be Para and Apara vidy. It also can mean mystical or
magic skills. Naturally siddhis are a kind of knowledge.
Example 6.
Sai Baba is one of the Gurus in India, well known
because of His Siddhi materializing things. In his case
Darakaraka is dispositor of Atma Karaka and having Graha
and Rasi drishti on it and it is placed in Lagna.
In ancient text there are descriptions of various siddhih. Like get overcome
pancha tatvas and similar. In this research I was focusing just on the primery
eight.
Appendix:
Chart of the peoples from TM movement. Every chart got the connection of
Darakaraka with Mangala and Vigyanamsha. Also there is connection between
Karakamsha Lagna and Vigyanamsha. Here are presented only Navamshas.
Atma Karaka Mangal rules over Vigyanamsha. Rahu Dara Karaka has Rasi
and Graha drishti on Mangala.
Om Tat Sat