Yogananda gave us some examples of Siddhis (“supernatural abilities”) which Kryia Yoga gave people as they found utter lucidity. Kryia and Tantra are very linked. The immortal Babaji was the progenitor of Kriya Yoga and Tantra.
In Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogananda describes masters who can avoid showing up in photos, manifest amulets, eat poison with no ill effects, manifest perfume, fruit, extra bodies, go without sleep. Tantra is a method of realizing we have far more power than our society talks about. The masters who do these exercises devote their lives to them and achieve siddhas as side effects. They aren’t the goal. But they show us how malleable this world really is. “Awake in God, true saints effect changes in this dream-world by means of a will harmoniously attuned to the Creative Cosmic Dreamer. “ Autobiography of a Yogi, page 57.
Yogananda says “Great saints who have awakened from the cosmic mayic dream and have realized this world as an idea in the Divine Mind, can do as they wish with the body, knowing it tobe only a manipulatable from of condensed or frozen energy. Though phyiscal scientists new understand that matter is nothing but congealed energy, illumined masters have passed victoriously from theory to practice in the field of matter control.” Page 330.
According to the teachings of the Siddhas,(the most powerful yogic masters), men can remove the problems such as grey hair, old age, poor vision, disease–and even death ( called soruba samadhi.) through working with the charkas, and the nadi system through mantras, asanas, meditation, sense withdrawal, selfless service, yoga nidra, pranayama, and the retention of ejaculate. In addition, 8 superhuman abilities may be possible, which are the Siddhis.
One of the Siddhas, Thirumoolar, lists the 8 abilities in his Thiumandiram as Anima, becoming infinitesimally small, Mahima,being able to expand infinitely,Karima, becoming heavy, Lahima, becoming light, Praphi, being able to know anything, Prahamiyam, being able to fulfill desires, and have keen mind and senses, Esathuvam, power over both the animate and inanimate, and Vasithuvam, command over all through the word.
The ageless body needs not only the yogic work but also the yogic supplements with exotic substances, the recipes for which are not available to us, and must be begun before the age of 21. However, we can do the other parts of the kaya kalpa treatment, and not expect perhaps to be ageless, but to come as close as possible to a perfected body. These include Pranyama and Asanas, and Tantric conservation of sperm and sexual energies.
Swami
When Swami Rama became a swami, he was no longer taken care of by his teacher, and, being an ascetic, relied on gifts from aspirants and all those who understood the value of the spiritual masters. For 13 days, he was brought only flowers, no food, and he began crying, and asked the mother goddess for help. He reports a hand coming from the water with a bowl of food, and a woman’s voice instructing him to eat. The bowl continually renewed itself. “This was witnessed by thousands of people who used to come and see it. They would continue to pour milk in it but it never overflowed. “ Living with the Himalyan Masters, 184.
Swami Rama, like Yogananda, tells wondrous tales of masters with amazing abilities to leave their bodies and move into someone else’s temporarily, disappear, make objects heavier or lighter, die on the exact moment they predict, make their corpses float. These may all seems like fairy tails, but this is what Tantra Yoga can achieve. These abilities are real, historically accepted, and that’s why it’s a shame to see Tantra Yoga diluted these days in the West into just sensual massage!
Concentration of the energy developed through Tantra can allow people to project versions of themselves (tulpas) and others can see them, and often believe them to be living people. They are even allowed to act on their own.
The Tantras (ancient Tantric texts) explain that the world is filled with thought forms, even such thought form creatures as have been created through movies, as well as by ghosts, other dimensional beings, good and bad. Tantrikas may inadvertently attract them as victims of vampires, or as threats to the system, but are also taught to recognize them, and live in as much harmony as possible with them. This can be difficult, and support from benevolent beings is helpful.
Siddhas include preventing misfortune for others, walking long distances at unusual speed, to passing through solid objects, and generating heat, or tumo.
Tantra and Chakras
Jack Schwarz is famous for his Siddhas gained from Tantra and related practices, and he often demonstrated in public his ability to do such things as lie on a bed of nails without feeling pain, and for the wounds to heal right away. He rarely eats, or sleeps. He explains that chakras are meant to create the chemicals we need to survive. I experienced this for several months at a time when I would go without any food at all, not lose weight or grow ill, but climb around on mountains. I considered myself a breatharian, but chose to eat food again eventually, though not very much for decades.
As Jack Swartz says, without the density gumming up the works, we can resonate with the subtle nutrients coming through light itself, the chakras transforming that electrically. “A second transformation would then occur to turn the electric energy into the chemical form that nourishes the cells. To complete the circuit, the chemicals would turn back into electric energy that would be emitted by the charkas. Instead of getting energy from secondary sources, such as animals and plants, a person in total harmony would derive it directly from the sun, as plants do in photosynthesis.” Voluntary Controls, 142
Like Jack, I was also able to go without sleeping normally, if at all, for years, and it’s totally different if I’m meditating so intensely and doing Tantric exercises, and I have no need of sleep, or if I just have plain old insomnia, which I despise.
In fact, I’ve accomplished many things people would call supernatural.
The Beautiful Web Of Life
If I were still living the lifestyle that allowed me to do that so well and so often, you probably wouldn’t be hearing from me on the computer. Living outside, instead of by the computer, like the traditional yogi in a cave does wonders for improving abilities. Eating raw, fresh, organic food you pick yourself and meditate over helps, and most food available these days is somewhat tainted, and the quality of water is even more affected by toxins that bring down the life force it has to offer. The body ages and is susceptible to the ills of our age, being insulted by chemtrails and other pollution, including noise pollution, EMFs, etc. that screw up the beautiful web of life. Living has become so expensive working all the time to pay for survival can make devoting one’s life to spiritual progress difficult, and to fit into this world, having a good time with friends and partners can take precedence over learning how to go without food. I mean, most people would rather eat MORE food, right?
Though not many people learning about Tantra through these articles will be able to master these abilities soon, it’s very important to understand that these are the goal of it, and to see how powerful it its. It’s not something to play around with, but a potent tool to move beyond the mundane sense of reality into something miraculous and glowing.
Tell us, have you been able to master any of these abilities yet?
