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162 RAJA YOGAthem are the five general appearances, conditions or states forthe fire, motion for air, all-pervading nature for the ether-theseare the five unchanging, real essential nature (YatharthaSvarupa) of the five elements respectively. Anvaya means thatwhich is interpenetrating in all objects i.e., the three Gunas.That Yogi who has mastery over the elements can commandnature. He can create anything by taking up materials from theocean of ether or Tanmatras. He can arrange and rearrangethe atoms of his body. He can create as many bodies as helikes and work in allthe bodies. Sri Jnana Deva had this Siddhi.He made the Musjid and the walls of his house to move. His sister,Mukta Bhai, prepared bread out of the fire that emanatedfrom his back. Visvamitra also had this power. He created athird world for Trisanku. You can also have this power if youpractise this special Samyama and understand the technique.16. Eight SiddhisrfrsffiHgqfq:ffislluI-46dtT: from that, 3TFTqIft the powers of Anima and others,yE {tq, attainpent of, tFI{ftF{-( perfection of body, il( their, qSfunctions, 3ffi{q-6: non-obstruction, ? and.From that comes the attainment of the (eight maior)Siddhis, Anima, etc., and the perfection of body, and non-obstructionof their functions.NOTESIt is stated that the Yogi attains the eight Siddhis and perfectionof body bythe practice of the Samyama explained in theprevious Sutra. Here I will give a short description of the eightSiddhis and in the next Sutra the perfection of body is given.The eight Siddhis are:(1) Anima: The power to make oneself as minute as anatom. (2) Mahima: The power to expand oneself into space,(becoming big as huge as a mountain) (3) Laghima: Thepower to become as lighl as cotton. (4) Garima: The power tobecome as heavy as iron hill. (5) Prapti: The power of reachinganywhere (power to approach distant things), even to the