SIDDHA SYSTEM OF KALPA

  The Siddha system says the human body both the physical and the subtle is made up of 72,000 veins and nerves and 7 vital nerve centres (Chakras) along the route of the spinal cord.

  The three important being Sun, Moon and Fire, the 10 vital airs (Prana) and 10 vital nerves (Nadis). Out of the ten vital nerves (Nadis) the first three namely Idakalai (Moon) Pingalai (Sun) and Suzhumunai (Spinal) play an important role in the technique and prolongation of life.

  Siddhars maintain that voluntary control of breathing is possible to a certain extent and that it will lead us to porlong our life span. The process of respiration in which oxygen is inhaled into the living cells and carbon-dioxide is exhaled from them is a fundamental phenomenon of life which is universally present in every type of living organism. The respiratory centre that regulates rythmic muscular contractions concerned with breathing is known as Medulla.

  Siddhars hold that the subtle air (Prana) begins at the centre of Lalada, passes through the Chitra or Chandra Nadi, jumps into sacral plexus with the sound ov and Navel plexus with the sound av where from it enters into Idakalai and Pingalai nerves with the sound Sav and circles the cerebrum and finally enters into nostrils charging out at a length of 12 inches and with drawing only 8 inches inside at the same time, thus loosing in the process 4 inches. This goes on repeating itself in the act of breathing.

  A part of the energy that ought to have entered the body is lost in every process of respiration and thereby the normal life span of 120 years is considerably reduced.

 The normal rate of breathing of a modern man may accordingly be calculated upto 61,600 in a day. On account of this, modern man loses much of his energy in excessive breathing and his life span is also considerably reduced.

  Siddhars have developed the science of breathing which helps to assimilate the full energy needed by the body for the purpose of living a life free from decay and diseases.

  Tirumantram is one of the important works in Tamil dealing with the science of life. It is the outcome of Tirumular’s love and desire that mankind should share the fruits of his valuable experience attained during his Yoga supposed to have been practised for three thousand years.

  Any yoga aids him to abandon the way of life which is governed by ignorance. Yoga assists him in concentration of his mind to attain the highest object of illumination. Yoga means the union with the Divine.

  Yogis and Siddhas who would not be disturbed in their practice of Yoga by hunger, thirst etc., have recourse to a peculiar method for the secretion of a nectar from the cerebral region through the opening behind the uvula. This is called Amuridharanai.

  This Elixir of life will strengthen the human system and make it invulnerable to decay, degeneration, diseases and death.

  Ganglia of ribes (Agnai chakra) that is situated inside the forehead between the centre of the eyebrows, gets charged with Divine Light which is regarded as the third eye of man by which one will be able to look into his own self and observe functions that take place in a living organism. How is it that one can derive much benefits by the enlightenment of the wisdom Eye-is now the question. In reply to such a pertinent question, Tirumular says how can a mother explain to her daughter in detail the pleasures derived by her conjugal union. In a similar manner, the pleasures of scenes that one witnesses through his inner eye cannot be explained.

  It is said there are a number of such practising Yogis in Mount Kailas (Himalayas) and other Hill regions. As they do not desire to be disturbed by undeserving rustic people, they seem to have selected inaccessible dense forests in hill regions.

  The tradition of Yoga of the great Siddha Tirumular of the ancient times is continued even today in India and it confirms the belief in immortality.

  That a physical frame locked up in a samathi continues to live on without any kind of diet for years is indeed a marvellous achievement and a challenge to modern medical science.

 ”It is possible that even the pituitary is not really the dominant gland of the body. Its activities are ruled by a region at the base of the brain to which it is the body. Its activities are ruled by a region at the base of the brain to which it is connected and which is known as the hypothalamus. Here, in the hypothalamus, the processes take place which govern much of the man’s instinctive and emotional life.

  Siddha system of medicine is regarded as the most unique system especially in the preparation of Kalpa drugs. One may wonder what is the remarkable thing in the Siddha system that is capable of curing many chronic and degenerative diseases.

 Siddhars, knowledge of minerals, metals and plants and the suitable combination of these things in the processing and the preparation of medicine according to the classification of five elements of nature, was of a very high order as can be gleaned from the lines of the ancient Siddha medical works. Their knowledge about poisons was also very comprehensive as can be seen from the descriptions of the properties of the poisons in the Siddha Materia Medica. These poisons are of two kinds-natural and synthetic, each of which is subdivided further into 32 numbers making up a total of 64 varieties. There are different kinds of manufacturing processes mentioned like calcination of metals and minerals, extracts and essences from minerals, calcinated powders like red oxide, preparation of caustic alkali from the plants etc. with a high potency. The process of distilling several kinds of acids in Siddha system is regarded as the most important one in using them as powerful solvents.

 There is no denying the fact that the fundamental principle underlying the process of calcination of the metals and the minerals successfully eliminating their evil effects but not losing at the same time their beneficial ones is a great secret; but the difficulty is that one has to learn the secret of manufacturing the Siddhic medicines from a learned and experienced Guru, since the correct scientific terminology of the different kinds of formulae relating to kalpa drugs as given in the ancient Siddha texts are not only fully comprehensive and expressive but also shrouded in symbolic words.

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