On Shadow Gazing

(contd...) If one practices looking at his own shadow in this fashion for twelve years, his own shadow will speak to him. Through that talk, he will gain the eight great Siddhis. After some days, this shadow will assume the shape of a man and go with him wherever he goes, lie where he lies, rise up when he rises, and will tell him beforehand of all the good and the bad that are going to befall him.