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SANNYASA DHARMA
(iv) the madhvasrūvi şiddhi acts like honey ; it
imparts toothsomeness to tasteless food, as if it had been honeyed, and to words
the power to sweeten life, (o) the sarpiräsravi riddhi is the same kind
of power as the above with reference to the production of the nourishing and strengthening effect of ghee (clarified
butter), and (vi) the amritāsråvi riddhi, that has the effect.
of amrita (ambrosia) in the above cir.
cumstances. 8. Kshetra riddhi, the power to feed a large body of men on leavings (of food), as well as the power to seat large numbers in small areas. This is of two kinds, namely,
(i) akshinamahānasariddhi which means that
strange power of the ascetic's presence by virtue of which a whole army of a great emperor may be fed out of the small pots from which he has been fed, and the akshinamahālaya riddhi, which is the miraculous effect of great asceticism whereby all kinds of living beings may get into the ascetic's presence without
overcrowding. Such are some of the miraculous powers that develop in the soul under the influence of asceticism. But the sūdhu must never think of using them for his own ends, or of setting himself up as a healer or
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