LEELA OF SAI
There are twenty three SIDDHIS in all , which have been graded into three classes ; Great , Medium and Small . The great SIDDHIS are eight in number and are very difficult to acquire . Only he who is established in a Self , who has lost all consciousness of his body and of the sense of 'I ' and 'mine' , such a one can acquire them . They are ANIMA - the reduction of one's form to an atom , assuming the subtle and invisible state ; MAHIMA or GARIMA- to make the body weighty or heavy ; LAGHIMA -to make the body excessively light and beyond what is natural ; PRAPTI - to acquire objects of sense pertaining to the respective organs ; PRAAKAASHYA - to see and know invisible things in the other worlds ; ISHITAA - to stimulate bodies and creatures , to have control over natural forces ; VASHITAA- to have supremacy over the senses ; YATKAAMASTADAVASYATI - literally ,the power to obtain joys in the three worlds effortlessly ,by mere willing . However , this power leads to the state of the highest bliss through ending of all desires .
On such a plank Baba used to sleep . Earthen oil lamps burned at the head and foot of his bed .No one even understood when he climbed up or down from it .He would either sit up there , with head bent ,or would be sleeping on it . But when he climbed up or got down from it , nobody ever saw him doing so . The plank was secured by strips of rags --but how did it balance Baba's weight ?? Well , when all the MAHASIDDHIS reside in you ,is not the plank only for names sake ?? If the ASHTASIDDHIS like ANIMA , MAHIMA , LAGHIMA etc , and the NAVANIDHIS stood by his side with folded hands . The plank was to him but an instrumental cause !
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