In our troupe, a person asked as to how to measure the spiritual powers
of a person, is it based on devotion or bakthi, good deeds or service to
the society, charity, etc. One instantly mentioned Mantravadi has some
special spiritual powers. Do they follow Atharva Veda, etc.
Discussion went along and no final opinion could be arrived at. In the
course of the discussion, our Senior person in the Group, mentioned about
the properties of a nature, i.e. ignorance, action, inclination towards
the truth, which a man or woman generally otherwise possesses. Some
mentioned about the Satwika also defining it as one's code of behaviour
leading towards the truth. The other fellow told that we normally mention as
One should be happy with all the 16 abundance of wealth, property, happiness, etc,
i.e. in Tamil we say Pathinarum Petru Peru Vazhvu Vazhga. During the course of the
discussion, the Senior Person mentioned that 16 refers to the Spritual Powers - titled
as Aishwarya. With further explanations, it was mentioned that Shri Hanuman
had 8 of them and Shri Rama and Shri Krishna had all the 16 powers. If a
person is able to attain even at least one, they can do miracles, that is what
the Senior man remarked. However, he said it has lot of intricacies.
Balasubramanian
Ambattur
