To live long in perpetual youth and to experience the best in life have been the goals of all human beings.
The common man wants and have longings for such system,where there is no caste, creed,religious discrimination to attain this goal.
In India, the tantras offered such a system and, more importantly, admitted all into their fold — irrespective of caste, creed or sex in an esoteric, but ingenious manner. The tantric concept of siddhi evolved certain pathways for disciplined aspirants. And inherent in that concept was the attainment of bodily immortality with even supernatural powers (animadi astasiddhi). This was reinforced by the mythical male-female symbolism, the union sublime of immortality.Buddhist pilgrims and the vajrayana seemed to have played a seminal role in this alchemical transmission.
Indian alchemy of both Sanskritic and Tamilian traditions, developed a wide variety a chemical processes for the ostensible transmutation of metals and preparation of elixir of life, in which mercury occupied a prime position.
eighteen samskaras or complex treatments, which were adopted for the potentiation of mercury were identified.
use of a wide variety of apparatus (mostly earthern), for distillation, sublimation, incineration, trituration to transmute the base metals into the noble one, and to make the perishable body an ever immortal one, were goals ever in sight, but never reached.
nevertheless, this pursuit produced a major spin-off in the direction of formulating certain mineral medicines.
The most important medicinal preparations belong to a class of what are called the bhasma of metals and minerals.
that the Indian alchemists had realised the importance of medicinal preparation more than of the transmutation of base metals into gold.
The common man wants and have longings for such system,where there is no caste, creed,religious discrimination to attain this goal.
In India, the tantras offered such a system and, more importantly, admitted all into their fold — irrespective of caste, creed or sex in an esoteric, but ingenious manner. The tantric concept of siddhi evolved certain pathways for disciplined aspirants. And inherent in that concept was the attainment of bodily immortality with even supernatural powers (animadi astasiddhi). This was reinforced by the mythical male-female symbolism, the union sublime of immortality.Buddhist pilgrims and the vajrayana seemed to have played a seminal role in this alchemical transmission.
Indian alchemy of both Sanskritic and Tamilian traditions, developed a wide variety a chemical processes for the ostensible transmutation of metals and preparation of elixir of life, in which mercury occupied a prime position.
eighteen samskaras or complex treatments, which were adopted for the potentiation of mercury were identified.
use of a wide variety of apparatus (mostly earthern), for distillation, sublimation, incineration, trituration to transmute the base metals into the noble one, and to make the perishable body an ever immortal one, were goals ever in sight, but never reached.
nevertheless, this pursuit produced a major spin-off in the direction of formulating certain mineral medicines.
The most important medicinal preparations belong to a class of what are called the bhasma of metals and minerals.
that the Indian alchemists had realised the importance of medicinal preparation more than of the transmutation of base metals into gold.
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