The mind and its promptings, urges and impulses, which are so strong that you have to learn how to bear them. This is called Siddhi.

The mind and its promptings, urges and impulses, which are so strong that you have to learn how to bear them. This is called Siddhi. Perfection or accomplishment in small and big things, Developing your mental power, your emotional power, or even making your body healthy, these are all Siddhis. You have been given either too high a concept about Siddhis or too low, neither are right. 'Siddha' means to fulfil, to perfect, as when it is said in day to day life, 'You have to make your action siddha.' When you perfect and complete something, that is siddhi. You may be keeping unwell. To cure this disease is to obtain a siddhi, the perfection of a completely healthy state. This is why we practise asana, pranayama, mudra, bandha, concentration, mantra japa and various the purification techniques of yoga. The little siddhis are not what you understand as miracles; they are the result of perfection in one's practice.

Many people practise tantra and yoga only to achieve the great Siddhis. But by the practice of simple techniques as Bhramari pranayama, such Siddhis also come. When an aspirant begins to practise sadhana- mantra japa, concentration, dhyana or pranayama, he awakens many categories of powers which are residing within him. We are the powerhouse; we are full of energy which is awakened and begins to function when we practise sadhana.

This energy is conducted in the nadis, the system of psychic nerve channels throughout the body. ‪#‎TheShivaTribe‬ The rishis and munis tell us that the body contains 72,000 nadis. There are ten main ones and among these, three are most important. They correspond to the sympathetic, parasympathetic and central nervous systems of modern physiology, but in tantra they are called ida, pingala and sushumna, and in vedic mythology they are known as Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati. These nerve channels do not flow in a perfectly straight path, or have direct connections to the brain; they junction in various places in the spinal cord. In tantra, these junctions are called chakras. There are thousands of chakras in many locations in the body, but only seven are widely known: mooladhara, swadhisthana, manipura, anahata, vishuddhi, ajna and sahasrara. They contain the hidden faculties in man.

We can categorise these hidden faculties in terms of the three gunas: tamasic, rajasic and sattvic. When you awaken mooladhara and swadhisthana chakras, tamoguni qualities such as hatred, jealousy, love and compassion are awakened. These are low faculties. However, the higher faculties of satoguna unfold when you awaken ajna chakra, which is located in the brain in the region of the pineal gland, behind the eyebrow centre at the top of the spinal cord. Along with these higher faculties comes the knowledge of the siddhis. Bhramari pranayama affects all of the chakras to some extent, but its major influence is on ajna chakra. Therefore, when you awaken ajna chakra by the practice of this pranayama, many siddhis arise. You may be able to experience somebody who is a thousand miles away as if he is in the same room speaking to you. He can be saying something there, and you can be hearing the same thing here. This is a great siddhi.

There is no power which can be compared to the power of the mind. Our ancestors, the rishis and munis, tell us in the scriptures that the power of power can summon the whole universe. The power of powers can make you enter the state of shoonya, void. If you can make your thoughts keen and sharp, they will be more effective than a thousand suns in burning a little blade of straw. But to increase the power of thought, you must do mantra japa. During mantra japa you don't focus on your thoughts, you just watch the mantra continuously. If you fix your attention on the thoughts, the mantra gets left behind. So you must concentrate on the mantra and don't worry about the thoughts. The thoughts will gain momentum and become extremely powerful, but when you keep repeating the mantra, they lose their speed and cannot fly you away from the conscious plane. In this way, you become more conscious, and your thoughts stronger. When your thoughts become more positive, accurate and sensitive, then you can order your mind to think in a certain manner and it will think in that way. And this is called Siddhi!
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