Siddhis: How To Attain Siddhi Powers?

How many times have you wondered whether there was any way you could have at least one superhuman power?

No, you’ve probably just laughed the thought away when you realized that superpowers are only found in DC and Marvel superheroes. They don’t exist in the real world.

What if I tell you that they do exist but they don’t come to you easily?

Years and years of practice, mainly through meditation, can perhaps get you there. Unless, of course, you’re born with it, which is quite a rare occurrence.

So, what’s this practice that we’re talking about?

Well, to understand this, we’ve to take the help of the ancient wisdom of yoga.

Many thousands of years ago, there lived a sage called Patanjali. He wrote the Yoga Sutra, which compiles a bunch of old-world wisdom based on yoga.

According to his books, human beings can achieve superhuman powers through focus and practice. These capabilities are called siddhis and are highly advanced.

Thus, it’s no wonder that in today’s world, people who do possess these powers are also very rare.

But it is possible. How?

That’s what we’re going to talk about today. But first, let’s discuss what siddhis are before we go ahead and look at how to attain these superpowers.

What Are Siddhis? Siddhis Meaning

The term siddhi in Sanskrit means accomplishment, perfection, or a feeling of being complete. In yoga, siddhis meaning is explained as gaining supernormal powers. These powers could be anything, being able to tell the future, changing the size of one’s body, and so on.

Even though it seems unbelievable, siddhis are not magic. They are as real as the sun and the moon. Siddhis come to those in time who can remain highly focused on someone or something indefinitely.

Siddhis can be classified into three types:

• The first is the ability to perfectly control the mind and the body.
• The second one is clairvoyance or the ability to tell the future or the past and even read someone’s mind.
• The third one is using the mind to influence the movement of objects, that is, mind over matter.

Let’s take one example of the first kind and see how it works.

Suppose you visit a real mind-reader and ask them to read your mind. You sit across that highly-skilled yogi, who focuses unwaveringly on you.

At one point, due to their years of practice, the veil that separates you from them blurs out and the yogi and you become the same person. You wouldn’t feel it, but they would.

And now that they and you are one, they can very well tell you what you’ve been thinking about, because it’s on their mind, too. This level of focus is extremely hard to attain, which is why such advanced yogis are rare, especially in the current century.

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What Are The 8 Major Siddhis (Astha Siddhis)?

Alright, so superpowers exist in the form of siddhis. But what kind of superpowers are we talking about?

Sage Patanjali had listed at least 25 siddhis in his book, of which, there are 8 primary ones.

Let’s see what those are:

1. Anima

Through Anima Siddhi, a yogi can reduce the size of their body to as small as an atom. The perfect state of this siddhi is invisibility. Remember when ant-man disappeared into the quantum realm? Well, he needed a suit. A yogi doesn’t. 

2. Mahima

The opposite of Anima, through Mahima siddhi, someone can expand their body infinitely. Their body can become even bigger than the whole universe. 

3. Garima

There are many ancient stories where sages and saints could not be moved from their seats. Regardless of whether a hurricane pounded the region or an earthquake occurred, they remained where they were. They did this by increasing their body weight infinitely. And that’s what the Garima siddhi is all about.