OTHER POWERS
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Shaastra Pramana: Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra, verse 141
Power: Asthamahā Shakti
30. Topic: Astha MahaShaktis, the 8 Naturally Superpowers that manifest with any technique of Vijana Bhairava
अजरामरतामेति सोऽणिमादिगुणान्वितः ।
योगिनीनां प्रियो देवि सर्वमेलापकाधिपः ॥ १४१ ॥
जीवन्नपि विमुक्तोऽसौ कुर्वन्नपि न लिप्यते ।
ajarāmaratāmeti so'ṇimādiguṇ ānvitaḥ ।
yoginīnāṃ priyo devi sarvamelāpakādhipaḥ ॥ 141 ॥
jīvannapi vimukto'sau kurvannapi na lipyate ।
Translation
O Devi, the aspirant (who has become efficient in any one of the dhāraṇa), gains freedom from old age and mortality, and becomes endowed with Aṇima and other powers (eight powers).
- He becomes dear to the Yoginis and the master of all Melāpakas
- He is liberated even while carrying on all the life activities, he is unaffected by them.
Note 1: Here ‘any of the dhāraṇa’ implies the 112 dhāraṇas revealed by Bhagavān Bhairava to Devi in the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra.
Note 2: Aṇimā and other powers, all eight of them are called the Aṣṭamahā Shaktis.
Shaastra Pramana: Shiva Sutras, Sutra 1.13
Power: The Will to Cause Anything
31. Topic: Uma and Kumari, the independent Will of Shiva
इच्छा शक्तिरूमा कुमारि // १३ //
icchā śakttirūmā kumāri // 13 //
Translation
His will is the energy of Shiva and it is called Umā, the independent power of Sadashiva; and it is called Kumāri, the cosmic energy that plays.
Shaastra Pramana: Spanda Kārikā, Section 3, Vibhūti Spanda, sutra 3.7
Power: All-Knowingness, All-pervadingness
32. Topic: Be the All-knowingness everywhere
अनेनाधिष्ठिते देहे यथा सर्वज्ञतादयः ।
तथा स्वात्मन्य् अधिष्ठानात्सर्वत्रैवं भविष्यति ॥ ३.७ ॥
anenādhiṣṭhite dehe yathā sarvajñatādayaḥ |
tathā svātmany adhiṣṭhānāt sarvatraivaṃ bhaviṣyati || 3.7 ||
Translation
Just as all-knowability (sarvajñatā), etc., in respect of the body occurs when it is pervaded by that Spanda principle, even so when the Yogi is established in his essential Self, he will have omniscience or all-knowingness, etc. everywhere.
Commentary by Kṣemarāja:
When the body is pervaded by this i.e. by the Spanda principle which is one's own essential Self, then as experiences of things suited to that state (i.e. the bodily state), such states of all-knowability (sarvajñatā), all-doership (sarvakarta) associated with the body manifest themselves to the embodied being, so, if the Yogi gets established in his imperishable self, is he steadily gets absorbed in that state, either by withdrawing his senses, etc. within himself (saṁkoca) as a tortoise withdraws its limbs within itself or by the device of the expansion of the all-embracing consciousness (vikāsa), then he acquires omniscience or all-knowingness, omnipotence or all-powerfulness – the powers appropriate to Shiva everywhere.
Foot Note:
Spanda – root meaning is – ‘having slight movement’. Lord is Achala, non-moving. The word ‘spanda’ in case of Lord Shiva is to be taken in the context of – Creative Pulsation, Divine Activity, throbbing of life, dynamism.