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SANNYASA DHARMA
CHAPTER IX.
şiddhis. There are eight principal kinds of miraculous powers, termed riddhis, any of which may be developed under the influence of lapaścharana (asceticism) by the saint. Many occult powers are comprised under each of these eight principal ones, which will be described now.
1. Buddhi riddhi, comprising the super-normal faculties and functions respecting knowledge, eg., Omniscience, telepathy, clairvoyance, transcendental functioning of the senses and the intellect, such as perception through the various parts of the skin, extraordinary power of intellectual penetration and memory, includiug the obtainment of control over certain real live 'forces' (or spirits) of a subtle embodied nature, termed Vidyas (bearing female names) that are endowed with super-normal powers and possessed of various kinds of abilities, e.g., the power to erect a city, the power to bring about changes of form, and the like. The faculty of divination is included in this riddhi, and is itself eightfold in nature, namely,
(1) divination, by means of the positions, move. ments etc., of the sun, the moon, stars, planets, and constellations;
(2) foretelling, by means of the conditions of the earth, the future destiny of kings, and the divining of the existence of minerals and of hidden treasuretroves and the like ;
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