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Jan. 25th, 2025 05:21 pm
On What it Means to become a Siddha
The following is a transcript of Sadhguru explaining what it means to be a Siddha.
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The video can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grTMDBwVOPo
Q: Namaskaram Sadhguru, could you speak about what kind of preparation is required to progress from practicing Ara-Siddha-sasana to the full Siddhasana?
A: To be in a state of siddhi means to be in a certain state of establishment. That means the looseness is gone. You're in a state of siddhi so you're a siddha. That means you organize your your energies in such a way that it is completely integrated. Your, generally, life is interdependent. [my note: Buddhism calls it Dependent Origination].
Your interdependency is constantly being brought down with the practice of yoga. Your dependence on the toilet is slowly going down isn't it? Food also going down actually if you check it. Air also is going down because you breathe deeper and slower - easily 2 minutes you could stay without breath in which other people would suffocate.
Siddha means that that you're trying to integrate the system into an established state where the interdependency of life is coming down on all levels to a point a day will come when if you sit here everything is still - your breath is gone - everything is gone - there is no transaction with the outside.
That's the ultimate goal that if you sit here you are a cosmos by yourself. You are not a part of the rest of the creation. When you are no more the part of the rest of the creation you exist here as a Creator. So siddha or sidasa is a journey in that direction. How many people get to that place is a different thing but it is a journey in the direction so Yogis sit.
I mean you heard that story about Sri Brahma sitting and asking them to cover up with mud because he's checking out for himself whether he is really a Siddha or not. Once the mud is covered he cannot breathe.
No breath, no light. See without light and air you cannot live - actually no breath. First people learn practicing by cutting off the light and then cutting off the food, cutting off the water, then cutting off the air, so once you have (ie. cut them all off) you are not dependent upon the external manifestation of the five elements in the world, you are a siddha. [ie. Nirvana. Dependent Origination has ended.]
Once you are a siddha you are no more a part of the creation. You are the Creator himself.
That is why a yogi who is a siddha and Shiva as seen as the same. They say he - Sri Brahma in his previous form - he was referred to as Shiva Yogi.
Ara-Siddha-sasana means you want to be stable but you want to leave the door open.
Door half open because you have a wife. If you become a siddha where will she go? She will not know how to be with you. She cannot be with you and if you force yourself to be - if you are established in a certain way and force yourself to be then you will be breaking something. Either in this or that so people who are in normal family situations you don't go for Sidhasana.
You go for Arsidasana because you want to keep the door open. So if you go the practice will rise to a different level altogether but that will also bring certain challenges a certain Integrity of who you are. How you live, what you eat, what you do, everything has to be watched because when you're trying to stabilize the system beyond a certain level of what is considered natural and normal.
It's normal to breathe, it's normal to eat and drink, it's normal to sleep. One who is buried under the Earth if he sleeps - finished - he'll never get up. So 8 - 18 days, 20 days, 12 years somebody doesn't sleep because if he sleeps for sure he's gone. One moment of unawareness for sure he's gone. By the time you open (the mud pit he's sitting in) his body will be rotting.
So to be a Siddha is a different dimension. There is something called a spirituality and there is something called a fringe spirituality that means the doors are always open. You can go here, go there, go here, go there, so if I become a siddha will I become incapable in the world?
Definitely not. You will become super capable. It is just that this system is integrated in such a way it will have no business with anything else.
It is only doing what's needed. It will have no business transaction going. Business transaction is give and take isn't it?
This can do lot of giving (motions to his own body as an example) but it cannot do give and take business. It becomes incapable of give and take business. It can radiate things. It can do wonderful things but it cannot do transaction.
This is the basic understanding behind people who are on the spiritual path. First thing that they stop is transaction.
You know, I think Jesus said something you can't serve me and Mamon? Whatever what that - cannot serve two Masters. Yeah, a man cannot serve two masters, that is, he's talking about material things and yeah so somewhere this awareness is there (i.e. in Christianity). Whether they (ie. Christians) have the necessary sadhana (ie practices) and scientific structure to get there or not - the awareness is there - everywhere.
That is why the first thing they stop is -somebody on the spiritual path means - if they do not know how to do any sadhana they go away. Somebody comes you offer something but no transaction so they withdraw into places where there's no need for transaction because living in a society you transact. Living in a family you transact. It's all a transaction.
So transaction is not just on the level of ..uh..I give money so you give some produce to me. It's not just that level. transaction is happening on a very basic level.
So you can transmit, you cannot transact once you strengthen the walls of your thing (ie. body, mind, energies). So on one level we are talking about loosening the walls. Taking off the boundaries. But another level we're talking about strengthening the boundary.
If you completely strengthen the boundary and become free from the existence you are as good as a Creator so a yogi who buries himself is not trying to perform a feat. He's not trying to show off. He's trying to master his situation where he's no more a part of the creation. All transaction that is necessary to be a part of the creation is taken away. He is on only because of the glow of that which is the source of creation within himself. Everything else is cut off. It doesn't matter.
There is something within you which is the source of creation which is making you throb right now as life but without the transaction with the creation you cannot exist for a moment. God is within you but if I hold your breath you're gone isn't it?
Now he (ie. the spiritual seeker) wants to get to a place where this transaction is not necessary so only that which is the source of creation is his sustenance so he is not serving two masters. He's truly serving one master and he's that.
[my note:
Or as Jesus Himself put it one day, "I and the Father are one." He also said, "He that has seen the Son has seen the Father also."]
*******************************
The video can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grTMDBwVOPo
Q: Namaskaram Sadhguru, could you speak about what kind of preparation is required to progress from practicing Ara-Siddha-sasana to the full Siddhasana?
A: To be in a state of siddhi means to be in a certain state of establishment. That means the looseness is gone. You're in a state of siddhi so you're a siddha. That means you organize your your energies in such a way that it is completely integrated. Your, generally, life is interdependent. [my note: Buddhism calls it Dependent Origination].
Your interdependency is constantly being brought down with the practice of yoga. Your dependence on the toilet is slowly going down isn't it? Food also going down actually if you check it. Air also is going down because you breathe deeper and slower - easily 2 minutes you could stay without breath in which other people would suffocate.
Siddha means that that you're trying to integrate the system into an established state where the interdependency of life is coming down on all levels to a point a day will come when if you sit here everything is still - your breath is gone - everything is gone - there is no transaction with the outside.
That's the ultimate goal that if you sit here you are a cosmos by yourself. You are not a part of the rest of the creation. When you are no more the part of the rest of the creation you exist here as a Creator. So siddha or sidasa is a journey in that direction. How many people get to that place is a different thing but it is a journey in the direction so Yogis sit.
I mean you heard that story about Sri Brahma sitting and asking them to cover up with mud because he's checking out for himself whether he is really a Siddha or not. Once the mud is covered he cannot breathe.
No breath, no light. See without light and air you cannot live - actually no breath. First people learn practicing by cutting off the light and then cutting off the food, cutting off the water, then cutting off the air, so once you have (ie. cut them all off) you are not dependent upon the external manifestation of the five elements in the world, you are a siddha. [ie. Nirvana. Dependent Origination has ended.]
Once you are a siddha you are no more a part of the creation. You are the Creator himself.
That is why a yogi who is a siddha and Shiva as seen as the same. They say he - Sri Brahma in his previous form - he was referred to as Shiva Yogi.
Ara-Siddha-sasana means you want to be stable but you want to leave the door open.
Door half open because you have a wife. If you become a siddha where will she go? She will not know how to be with you. She cannot be with you and if you force yourself to be - if you are established in a certain way and force yourself to be then you will be breaking something. Either in this or that so people who are in normal family situations you don't go for Sidhasana.
You go for Arsidasana because you want to keep the door open. So if you go the practice will rise to a different level altogether but that will also bring certain challenges a certain Integrity of who you are. How you live, what you eat, what you do, everything has to be watched because when you're trying to stabilize the system beyond a certain level of what is considered natural and normal.
It's normal to breathe, it's normal to eat and drink, it's normal to sleep. One who is buried under the Earth if he sleeps - finished - he'll never get up. So 8 - 18 days, 20 days, 12 years somebody doesn't sleep because if he sleeps for sure he's gone. One moment of unawareness for sure he's gone. By the time you open (the mud pit he's sitting in) his body will be rotting.
So to be a Siddha is a different dimension. There is something called a spirituality and there is something called a fringe spirituality that means the doors are always open. You can go here, go there, go here, go there, so if I become a siddha will I become incapable in the world?
Definitely not. You will become super capable. It is just that this system is integrated in such a way it will have no business with anything else.
It is only doing what's needed. It will have no business transaction going. Business transaction is give and take isn't it?
This can do lot of giving (motions to his own body as an example) but it cannot do give and take business. It becomes incapable of give and take business. It can radiate things. It can do wonderful things but it cannot do transaction.
This is the basic understanding behind people who are on the spiritual path. First thing that they stop is transaction.
You know, I think Jesus said something you can't serve me and Mamon? Whatever what that - cannot serve two Masters. Yeah, a man cannot serve two masters, that is, he's talking about material things and yeah so somewhere this awareness is there (i.e. in Christianity). Whether they (ie. Christians) have the necessary sadhana (ie practices) and scientific structure to get there or not - the awareness is there - everywhere.
That is why the first thing they stop is -somebody on the spiritual path means - if they do not know how to do any sadhana they go away. Somebody comes you offer something but no transaction so they withdraw into places where there's no need for transaction because living in a society you transact. Living in a family you transact. It's all a transaction.
So transaction is not just on the level of ..uh..I give money so you give some produce to me. It's not just that level. transaction is happening on a very basic level.
So you can transmit, you cannot transact once you strengthen the walls of your thing (ie. body, mind, energies). So on one level we are talking about loosening the walls. Taking off the boundaries. But another level we're talking about strengthening the boundary.
If you completely strengthen the boundary and become free from the existence you are as good as a Creator so a yogi who buries himself is not trying to perform a feat. He's not trying to show off. He's trying to master his situation where he's no more a part of the creation. All transaction that is necessary to be a part of the creation is taken away. He is on only because of the glow of that which is the source of creation within himself. Everything else is cut off. It doesn't matter.
There is something within you which is the source of creation which is making you throb right now as life but without the transaction with the creation you cannot exist for a moment. God is within you but if I hold your breath you're gone isn't it?
Now he (ie. the spiritual seeker) wants to get to a place where this transaction is not necessary so only that which is the source of creation is his sustenance so he is not serving two masters. He's truly serving one master and he's that.
[my note:
Or as Jesus Himself put it one day, "I and the Father are one." He also said, "He that has seen the Son has seen the Father also."]
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