Siddhars
are those who lived and maintained their bodies as they desired best.
They were mostly of a Tamil Saiva sectors, which maintained Siva for its
God, and rejected everything else in the Saiva system that was inconsistent
with the pure Thesim. They had investigated that the body, though transient
was the one and only instrument for attaining success in the spiritual
development and growth and so worked out to attain the eight supernatural
powers, as Anima, Magima, Lagima, etc., essential for their goal, as mentioned
in Silappathigaram. They further realized that if the body could only
be made strong and perfect they could get rid of birth and death and live
for ages together. They are the greatest men holding tremendous powers
in themselves by way of yoga practice and rejuventation. They are capable
of enjoying spiritual success in their mortal bodies.
They further
attained Spiritual awakening by rousing, with their suppressed breathing,
the Kundalini lying dormant at the base of the spinal coloumn in the region
of the sacral plexus; and with the help of remedies of high potencies
and virtues consisting of al kinds of drugs, minerals, metallic preparation
and poisons they sought of Elixir of life, thus conquering all infirmities
against grey hairs, wrinkles of the skin, old age and death. They could
fly through the aerial regions with the aid of animated mercurial pills
and even visited all the planets and stars and enjoyed the pleasures and
wonders found therein.
So they are
men holding tremendous and extraordinary powers, superhuman in nature,
and can even, in this file, change their bodies into god bodies. There
are several such cases mentioned by Siddhars in their books; they can
change the material of their bodies and re arrange the molecules in such
a fashion that they may have no more sickness or death. They can send
mental electricity without the aid of nerve channels. thus holding communion
by remaining in their own places., with any body and anywhere in the universe.
Their principle is that ideality and spiritual knowledge can only be attained
through Yoga and to reach this, bodily existence is essential and so,
they wanted to gain success before they die. They realized that if the
body came to an end, it would take a longer time to reach the goal by
being born again and again and in this way, much time will be lost. |
