Friday, June 6, 2014

Importance of Mercury (Padarasam)

As mentioned by Sadguru....

Consecration
 
If you can make any substance or space into a divine reverberation, this is called consecration. There is a whole science of consecration. You can energize any object. But if you energize certain forms created out of certain material, in a certain way, they will become eternal forms. One important material like this is mercury.

Mercury
When we energize a substance, we want the densest possible material that we can find. Mercury is one of the densest possible substances and it is in liquid form – it is the only liquid metal. Once you energize this, it will remain the same way for ten, fifteen thousand years. If the right kind of situation is maintained, it may remain that way for a hundred thousand years.

The idea and the science and technology behind this is that you create an energy form which will do something that you want to do for a long period of time. It is because of this that most of the lingas are mercury-based. The mercury lingas in the Theerthakunds are solidified mercury – 99.2% pure mercury – that 0.8% impurity is because laboratories are not capable of removing it.

This is Indian alchemy and this is a way to energize any space. We have seen how for people who have taken solidified mercury forms into their homes, their health situation, their mental situations, even their economic situations, have changed phenomenally.

Indian systems of medicine like Ayurveda and Siddha Vaidya use mercury on a daily basis. Siddha Vaidya cannot operate without mercury.



Normally, the thing about idols which are consecrated with mantras and chants and things like that is that if you do not take care of it for a certain period of time, it will become a receding force. This is the reason why if any idol is even slightly damaged, they will take it and throw it into a well or a river because if you are in the presence of a form which is in a state of receding energy, it will cause harm to you. So it is instantly taken and put in a place where no human beings will approach it. That’s the idea. But once a form is created with solidified mercury, it will never be a receding force even if nobody takes care of it. That is the safety.

This whole science of solidifying and energizing mercury is called Rasa Vaidya. It is a subjective science, because if you have to change one thing into something else, you need some kind of addition, subtraction, change in temperature – you have to do something, otherwise it cannot happen. But now at room temperature, mercury is solidified without any addition. That cannot be physical, objective science. It has to be subjective science.

Indian systems of medicine like Ayurveda and Siddha Vaidya use mercury on a daily basis. Siddha Vaidya cannot operate without mercury. Mercury is the most essential ingredient in Siddha Vaidya and also in some Ayurvedic products. This practice has been on for thousands of years. Consumption of mercury is very much a part of yogic practice. We know what it does to the system. In India, you will see people wearing mercury balls around their neck. There are any number of people who have come out of very serious immunological diseases just by having a piece of solidified mercury on their body.

Source : Sadguru 

Medieval Alchemy


Importance of Mercury: The texts of Indian alchemy (rasavidya) reveal that a wide variety of inorganic and organic substances were used and plant as well as animal products, but more of the former. The important minerals are generally referred to as rasas and, in later texts they are classified into maha (superior) and upa (subsidiary) rasas. Mercury, though a metal, is extolled as the king of rasas, the maharas, and has several names in the rasasastra texts: parada, sita, rasendra, svarnakaraka (maker of gold),sarvadhatupati and, more significantly in a mythological setting, Sivaja (born of Siva); Siva virya (semen of Siva) and Harabija (seed of Siva). More than two hundred names of plants have been mentioned in the texts, but many of them have not been properly identified from the point of view of modern botanical nomenclature. Generally their roots, leaves or seeds are used for aiding digestion processes. As for the animal products, their excreta, flesh or some other parts of their bodies were diligently processed and used.

The texts written in the medieval period primarily dealt with gold-making and elixir syntheses. Elixir or Rasayana was a substance that could transform other base metals in to gold and silver, as well as confer longevity and immortality when taken internally. If an elixir proved successful in transmutation of metals it was supposed to be safe for internal administration as well. Owing to its heavy weight, silvery white and shiny appearance, fluidity, and its property of readily combining with other substances, mercury was considered as the most potent of all substances and as possessing divine properties. The potions containing mercury were supposed to give longevity and immortality, thus making it the main ingredient of the powders used in the transmutation and as elixirs. Mercury had to undergo 18 processes before it could be used for transforming either metals or human body. These processes were as follows:

    Svedana: steaming or heating using water bath
    Mardana: grinding
    Murchana: swooning or making mercury lose its form
    Utthapana: revival of form
    Patana: sublimation or distillation
    Rodhana: potentiation
    Niyamana: restraining
    Sandipana: stimulation or kindling
    Gaganabhaksana: consumption of essence of mica
    Carana: amalgamation
    Garbhadruti: liquefaction (internal)
    Bahyadruti: liquefaction (external)
    Jarana: calcinations
    Ranjana: dyeing
    Sarana: blending for transformation
    Sankramana: acquiring power of transformation or penetration
    Vedhana: transmutation
    Sevana: becoming fit for internal use

These were known as the samaskaras
Source: InfinityFoundation

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