Ulladu-Narpadu Verse 35: Siddhis
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 14/06/2017

This series is classified Ajata-vāda | Jñāna-yoga | Turīya | Sahasrāra-cakra

"The mind having subsided, knowing and being the Reality, which is always attained, is the true attainment (siddhi). All other siddhis are merely like powers acquired in dream; if one wakes up from sleep, will they be real? Will those who have discarded the unreal state 
of Self-forgetfulness by abiding in the real state of Self-knowledge, be deluded by those unreal siddhis? Therefore know and be as you—the Reality—are." 

Also relevant are Ulladu-Narpadu Anubandham, Verses 15 & 16:

15. "The buffoonery of the madmen who, not knowing the manner in which they function by śakti (that is, not knowing the truth that it is only by the ātmā-śakti or power of Self that they are enabled to function and perform activities), engage in activities (such as sacrificial oblation, worship, japa or meditation) saying, “We shall obtain all occult powers (siddhis)”, is like the story of the cripple who said, “If someone helps me to stand, what are these enemies (that is, how powerless they will be in front of me)?”

Note: People who make efforts to attain sakti and siddhis do so only because of their ignorance of the truth that all the actions of their mind, speech and body are functioning only due to the power of the Presence of Self.

16. "Since peace of mind (chitta-santi) alone is liberation (mukti), which is (in truth always) attained, say, how can those who set (their) mind upon occult powers (siddhis), which cannot be attained without activity of the mind, immerse in the bliss of liberation, which is devoid of all turbulance of mind?"

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