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Ashta Siddhi
SJC Conference Europe
2006 Serbia, Novi Sad
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Introduction:
Ashtha Siddhi The eight renowned accomplishments of ancient India
through which one can gain miraculous powers.
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;ixmÙtp>smaixja> isÏy>. 1.
janmauñadhimantratapaùsamädhijäù siddhayaù || 1||
Siddhis are gained through birth, specific herbs, mantras, austerities, or samadhi.
Yoga sutra of Patanjali IV book kaivalyapädaù verse 1
1
Remaining unattached, always perform the obligatory duty, for, by performing (one’s) duty
without attachment, a person attains the Highest. – Translation by Swami Gambhéränanda.
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 vibhütipädaù 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.
Eight types of bondage:
Bhagavat Géta
1. Surya
2. Chandra
3. Agni (Mangal)
4. Prithvi (Budh)
5. Vayu (Shani)
6. Jala (Shukra)
7. Antariksh (Guru)
8. 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!,
daçamäàçe 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.
#izTv (Prakamya) – the ability to create or control – Surya rules East and
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.
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.
Every Graha will indicate Direction of the Karma related to that Graha.
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).
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) aruòha lagna.
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.
Kala Dig
Graha Siddhi Type
chakra chakra
Surya East East Prakamya Body
Shukra West South – East Laghima Body
Mangal South – East South Vasitva Body
Rahu North – East South – West Kamavasayitva Knowledge
Shani North – West West Anima Power
Chandra North North – West Prapti Knowledge
Budha South – West North Garima Power
Guru South North – East Mahima Power
Naturaly, Ketu is not include in this concept because it represet Moksha Marga
and his direction is upwards.
But to comfirm that person have a siddhi we need to check Navamsha also,
especially Karakamsa.
In Navamsa, Rahu is on Karakamsa Lagna, together with Atma Karaka, Surya,
which is ruling over ninth house from there. Also there is drishti of Bhatru
Karaka (Guru Devata). That show that siddhi that he attaind has come from the
teaching of His Guru. Rahu also is rulling over third bhava from Karakamsha
Lagna which shows Guru Upadesha bhava.
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 vedbþ<ze.
vidyäyä vedabahvaàçe ||
3
Fifth bhava from Karakamsha 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.
Surya Atma Karaka has Rashi Drishti on Vigyanamsha. Guru DK conjoins
Mangala and Mangala aspects Karakamsha Lagna.
Atma Karaka – Mangal rules over Vigyanamsha. Rahu – Dara Karaka has Rasi
and Graha drishti on Mangala.
Mangala has aspects on Atma Karaka and Dara Karaka also ruling over
Vigyanamsha.
Lord of Karakamsha aspects Vigyanamsha. Mangal rules over Vigyanamsha and
aspects by Rashi Drishti on Dara Karaka Chandra.
OmTatSat