Tapas and powers🔗

Extraordinary powers can be achieved by tapas.

The word siddhi (powers) should not be translated as extraordinary powers. The right translation is getting ripe. If your eyes are ripe, you can see anything. When your senses ripen, you can live with them joyfully. Extraordinary powers are only the side-effect of this ripening process.

When your skin ripens you will have the power to expand or contract yourself at will. You can blow your body like a balloon or shrink it as you want. That is what is called mahima and garima.

Anima, lahima, mahima, and karima siddhis are making yourself weightless or heavy or small or big, all of this happens when your skin ripens.

The word siddhi was translated by Ramakrishna (an enlightened Master from Bharat) as boiled, riped, and cooked. How to cook and boil your senses? By more and more and more tapas, nothing else. Tapas is the only heat which can cook and boil your senses. No other way for boiling your senses.

So when your sense organs and body is ripened, automatically the extraordinary powers start expressing in you. Now not only your senses are ripened, but your bio-memory (emotional memory) knows the science.

The ripening of your bio-memory will give you that particular siddhi power. For example when you are healed of a particular disease that you had, the ripening of that bio- memory, will allow you to heal others with the same disease.

The part of the body when it ripens not only does it heal itself, as a side effect it gets many other powers.

So when the body and sense organs are ripened by tapas, the purification process, all the impurities are eliminated from the body, the sense organs, and bio-memory and extraordinary powers express.