siddha
सिद्ध siddhaA “perfected one”; an adept who has attained spiritual power (siddhi) or the perfected body, as in the eighty-four Siddhas of the Nāth and tantric traditions.
Where this term appears
- Tantric Alchemy: The Quest for the Immortal Body Lineages
…ury, pursued for centuries in the workshops and caves of the Nath and Siddha yogis, and it deserves to be understood, because although it never once achieved either of its impossible goals, the pursuit of them …
- The Nāth Sampradaya Lineages
They set out to take the perishable human body and cook it, by breath and posture and the raising of an inner power, into a siddha-deha , a perfected and deathless form.
- What is a Guru? Lineages
Serious accusations of sexual abuse were made against Swami Muktananda of Siddha Yoga and against Sathya Sai Baba by former followers.
- What is Shaktipat? Lineages
…y a word, or by a mere thought, and then through Swami Muktananda and Siddha Yoga from the 1970s.
- What is Ayurveda? Essentials
…tury, through rasa-shastra , the alchemical tradition of the Nath and Siddha lineages, and they reach the mainstream canon with the Sharngadhara Samhita around 1300 CE.
- What is Hatha Yoga? Yoga
Modern scholarship places the formative texts among these Nath and tantric Shaiva and Buddhist siddhas of the early second millennium, and a source-faithful account should say so plainly.
- 779 CE, and the Śabaras are already a costume Treatise
…ed in 1946, which remains one of the fullest Indian treatments of the Siddha and Nāth material.
- A genre that was always bilingual Treatise
In the Haṭhayogapradīpikā 's list of Mahāsiddhas, Matsyendra stands second only to Śrī Ādinātha, whom Bagchi glosses as Śiva.