![]() "In The Alchemical Body, David Gordon White excavates and centers within its broader Indian context this lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas. For India's medieval Siddhas, these three conjoined types of practice led directly to bodily immortality, supernatural powers, and self-divinization in a word, to the exalted status of the semidivine Siddhas of the older popular cults." These were the Siddha Kaula, whose adherents sought bodily immortality through erotico-mystical practices the Rasa Siddhas, medieval India's alchemists, who sought to transmute their flesh-and-blood bodies into immortal bodies through the ingestion of the mineral equivalents of the sexual fluids of the god Siva and his consort, the Goddess and the Nath Siddhas, whose practice of hatha yoga projected the sexual and laboratory practices of the Siddha Kaula and Rasa Siddhas upon the internal grid of the subtle body. ![]() ![]() Over the following five to eight hundred years, three types of Hindu Siddha orders emerged, each with its own specialized body of practice. ![]() These people called themselves Siddhas, a term formerly reserved for a class of demigods, revered by Hindus and Buddhists alike, who were known to inhabit mountaintops or the atmospheric regions. ![]() "Beginning in the fifth century A.D., various Indian mystics began to innovate a body of techniques with which to render themselves immortal. ![]()
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