The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c9.s2.2

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Thus it can be seen that the Tāntrics recognised long before the present age that psychic culture is of the utmost importance in life, and through these exercises anything that can be accomplished in the material sphere can be achieved in the psychic sphere. This tendency even in the present day is a dominating factor in Indian life, and no one should wonder seeing people running after Sādhus and Sannyāsins leaving aside modern scientific men in many of their difficulties. Occasionally, stories are told of miraculous powers of ascetics over the elements of nature or of their power of curing diseases for which apparently no recognised system of scientific medicine has discovered a cure. There are many such Yogins even now in India moving about in jungles, cities, caves and mountains, possessing wonderful and miraculous powers.