Editing Siddha (section)

===Tamil tradition===
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In [[Tamil Nadu]], South India, a siddha (see ''[[siddhar]]'') refers to a being who has achieved a high degree of physical as well as spiritual perfection or enlightenment. The ultimate demonstration of this is that siddhas allegedly attained [[physical immortality]]. Thus siddha, like [[siddhar]], refers to a person who has realised the goal of a type of [[sadhana]] and become a perfected being. In Tamil Nadu, South India, where the siddha tradition is still practiced, special individuals are recognized as and called siddhas (or siddhars or cittars) who are on the path to that assumed perfection after they have taken special secret [[rasayana]]s to perfect their bodies, in order to be able to sustain prolonged meditation along with a form of [[pranayama]] which considerably reduces the number of breaths they take. Siddha were said to have special powers including flight. These eight powers are collectively known as attamasiddhigal (ashtasiddhi). In [[Hindu cosmology]], ''Siddhaloka'' is a subtle world (''[[loka]]'') where perfected beings (siddhas) take birth. They are endowed with the eight primary [[siddhi]]s at birth.