Excerpt from Chp. 25, “The Search for Kaya Kalpa”…
I went down to Madras in Southern India and learned about making medicinal powders from mercury and gold. The state of Tamil Nadu is like another country, with a different language (Tamil rather than Hindi), and an ancient system of healing practices that are said to predate even Ayurveda. This is the Siddha Vaidya system of medicine, in which health is defined as a perfect state of physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual well-being in an individual. This system takes a much wider view than Western medicine of the factors comprising health. Much of the Siddha Vaidya practice has not been translated from the ancient palm-leaf manuscripts on which it was written.
Lore has it that thousands of years ago, eighteen Siddhars, the masters of the region, passed on this healing science, as well as astronomy, astrology, mathematics, and language. Some claim that certain of these Siddhars are still living in the mountains in etheric bodies, and they appear at random times to guide persons who search them out, those who are qualified to receive their instruction.
If you discuss Kaya Kalpa with doctors practicing medicine in the south, they immediately mention alchemy and metals, mainly mercury and gold. They use these instead of herbs for rejuvenation and longevity. “Mercury” does not mean the highly toxic liquid known in the West, but the alchemical mercury, in which the base element has been transformed, purified, and solidified through a laborious process anciently known. After the alchemy, mercury has a powerful aura that purportedly strengthens and purifies the physical and subtle bodies by raising their vibratory rate.
In Madras, I met Dr. Rajan, who allowed me to film the process of making a mercury-gold formula for rejuvenation. The process is performed with primitive clay pots, stone mortars, and outdoor fires. It takes a week to complete. Dr. Rajan also told me about hardening mercury into a bead that could be worn as a pendant. Supposedly, yogis would use these beads to change their shape or levitate. Mercury beads, I was told, could cure all ills, ward off all evils, magnify sexual capacity, and boost energy—an extravagant list of claims, to be sure.
Copyright (c) 2011 A. Vidor Publications
