Tirisilex Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 There are so many new words for me.. what is a siddha? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gHari Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 Here's a trick: http://vedabase.net/s/siddha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beggar Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 Important one: siddha-puruṣa — liberated persons; CC Madhya 16.162-163 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahnava Nitai Das Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 There is a belief, and it is more strong in South India, that there are a class of immortal saints called siddhas. They are supposed to have conquered death through spiritual practices, and possess super human powers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 The eternal jiva-siddha bodily form that all marginal living entities have is called ones nitya (eternally situated) – siddha (imperishable perfection of ones marginal constitution as an eternally devotionally liberated Krishna Conscious individual) - svarupa (one's perpetual Krishna Conscious individual form, shape, relationship and body) that never leaves Goloka-Vrndavana. Srila Prabhupada - “Originally everyone is nitya-siddha. Nitya-siddha krsna-bhakti ’sadhya’ kabhu naya sravanadi-suddha-citte karaye udaya Every living entity originally nitya-siddha, “. Srimad-Bhagavatam Class 7.9.4– Mayapur, February 18, 1977 Srila Prabhupada - "Svarupa, or “one’s own form.” Purport Bhagavad Gita as it is 4.6 Srila Prabhupada - "By the process of devotional service, one can revive that svarupa, and that stage is called svarupa-siddhi —perfection of one’s constitutional position . . . We have an intimate relationship with the Lord, and because we are all qualitatively one . . . the whole purpose of Bhagavad-gita is to REVIVE our sanatana occupation, or sanatana dharma, which is the eternal occupation of the living entity" Introduction to Bhagavad-gita asa it is, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivaduta Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 one who spends his time in pursuit of siddhi without having the desire to use the siddhi is a siddha... he seeks perfection through and of his siddhi... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theist Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 siddha means perfect or perfected, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beggar Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 siddha means perfect or perfected, right? Srila Sridhar Maharaj used to chukle and say, "another meaning of siddha purusa is boiled potato." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 siddha means perfect or perfected, right? siddha — completely perfect siddha-sańghāḥ — perfect beings siddha-sańghāḥ — the perfect human beings siddha-gaṇa — of the perfected sages siddha-īśvara-maṇḍalaiḥ — by the most perfect devotees siddha-īśāḥ — all of them perfect in their knowledge svataḥ-siddha-jñāna — self-illuminated perfect knowledge mahā-siddha-jñāne — calculation as the most perfect devotee nitya-siddhapāriṣada — eternally perfect associate siddha — completely perfect siddha — perfect http://vedabase.net/s/siddha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunds Posted March 16, 2008 Report Share Posted March 16, 2008 I have already posted this link in a different thread. See this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DdkEWIwJtU&NR=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustRish Posted March 16, 2008 Report Share Posted March 16, 2008 I know that in Jainism, a soul that has achieved Nirvana or Moksha is called a Siddha. Not sure if this is the same definition elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted March 16, 2008 Report Share Posted March 16, 2008 Being spirit is not impersonal; ultimately we are NOT living sparks, atoms or rays of individual light particles in a collective effulgence called the impersonal Brahmajyoti or dormant individual living light units as many Hindu schools of thought wrongly propagate. The spiritual suicidal Hindu Mayavadi school of thought also have it wrong by foolishly saying it is all one consciousness without individual unites of living entities (I am you, you are me, And we are all together) and that ultimately we are all God It is a fact one CAN enter that dormant dreamless state as an individual (whether the Mayavadi's believe the fact of the individuality of each living entity or not) however; it is only temporary that one has entered the impersonal inactive characteristic of the Brahmajyoti (Spiritual Sky) and one eventually has to leave that conditioned state of dreamlessness because it is inherent in all living entities to be active for either Krishna or themselves. Ultimately ALL living entities have a perpetual PERSONAL Krishna Conscious bodily form that is called one's eternal 'svarupa'. We are all sons and daughters of the Supreme Father Lord Krishna and just like Him, all of us have an original body. Srila Prabhupada - "By the process of devotional service, one can revive that svarupa, and that stage is called svarupa-siddhi —perfection of one’s constitutional position . . . We have an intimate relationship with the Lord, and because we are all qualitatively one . . . the whole purpose of Bhagavad-gita is to REVIVE our sanatana occupation, or sanatana dharma, which is the eternal occupation of the living entity" Introduction to Bhagavad-gita asa it is, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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