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information on alchemy-ing practices of Siddha: Karnari get the elixir in the urine (ps.
165167) and can transmute copper into silver and silver into gold (ps. 205-206); Capari
known whereby the dye is gold (p. 202); Gurn vyali testing the preparation of silver and
gold with dro-gas (ps. 221-222), and so on. Referring to another master tantric, Vagisvarakirti,
Taranatha wrote that "brought forth by the magic elixir of life, in quantity and
distributed among people, so that one hundred and fifty years old and still more were
again young people "(quoted in Conze, Buddhism, p. 177).
All these legends and references to Tantrism, alchemy symbiosis put beyond doubt a
function of soteriol6gica alchemical operations. This is not pre-chemistry, science
embryonic ria-but a spiritual technique that, while acting on "matter" sought above all the
"perfection of the spirit", the liberation and autonomy. If we ignore the pro-lifer6 folklore
about the alchemists (as about all the "wise men") can understand the symmetry between
the metal alchemist working on "common" to transmute into "gold", and the yogi work
on yourself, strive to "extract" of psycho-mental life, confused and enslaved, the free
spirit and self-autonomous, which shares the same essence as the gold. Because in India,
as elsewhere, "gold is immortality" (amrtam ayur hiranyam; Maitrayani-samhita, II, 2, 2;
Satapatha Br, III, 8, 2, 27; Aitareya Br VII, 4, 6, etc.).. Gold is the only metal.perfecto,
solar, and hence its symbolism is attached to the symbolism of the Spirit, freedom and
spiritual autonomy. It is thought pro-absorbing prolong life indefinitely gold. But,
according to the alchemical Rasaratnasavmccaya Treaty before absorbing it was
necessary to purify and "fix" through the use of mercury (text quoted by PC Ray, A
History of Hindu Chemistry, vol. I, p. 105).
De-a chapter of the Sarva-Samgraha darsana-of-Madhava6 with sacred to darsana
rasesvara-literally the "science of mercury," clearly shows that it is not an empirical
science, a pre-chemistry. Because liberation depends on the "stability of the human body"
and that's why mercury, which strengthens and extends the life, is also a means of
liberation. A text quoted by the Sarva-darsana-Samgraha states that "the release is the
knowledge, knowledge of the study and the study is only possible for one who has a
healthy body. The ascetic ideal is to get the "liberation in life, be a Jivan-Mukta. The rasa
(mercury) 0 cs the quintessence of Siva, also called stop, because it leads to the other side
of the world. It is also the seed of Hara (Shiva) and abhra (mica) is the ovum of the
goddess (Gauri): the substance resulting from its union man can become immortal. This
"glorious body" was obtained by a large number of nest-mukta jiva, including the text
cites Carvati, Kapila, vyali, Kapali, Kandalayana. Madhava soteriological emphasis on
the role of alchemy. "The system mercurial (rasayana) should not be regarded as a mere
eulogy of metal once it is half-preserved body, to achieve liberation, the supreme goal."
And Rasasidd-hanta alchemical treatise quoted by Madhava, says: "the liberation of the
vital soul (jiva)
5 Edition Ananduslirama Series (2 * reimprc-sion), ps. 48-53; trans. Covvel! and Cough
(ed. IV, London /. ps. 137-144.
6 The mercury was £ coas.derado pia-uli Tanira as a general principle tor, and given
alir.un.is iijdk.iuoiu. alii snn-s hicer one mercuriul or Shiva phallus, P. C. Ray, Selected
Works, vol. i, introduction, p. 79.
system is exposed in the mercurial, joh, thinker! "A text and another Madhava Rasarnava
no appointment (anyatrapi) argue that the merit is gained seeing the mercury is similar to
what is gained by seeing and worshiping the phallic emblem of Benares or any other