Siddha Bhoganathar: An Oceanic Life Story

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Siddha Bhoganthar: An Oceanic Life Story

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Guru of Babaji, in the poem Bhogar J na Sagarama (Bhogar Oceanic s Life Story, consisting of 557 verses, verse number 2, lines number 3 and 4), identifies himself as a Tamilian, (Ramaiah, 1979; 1982. p. 17).[1] In the same verse he states that the great Siddha K langi N thar initiated him in J na Yoga (supreme selfknow ledge). K langi N thar w as born in Kai (Benares). H e attained the immortal state of swarpa sam at the ago of dhi 315, and then made China the center of his teaching activities. H e belonged to the ancient tradition of N ava (nine) N th sadhus (holy ascetics), tracing their tradition to Lord Shiva. There are nine important shrines associated w ith this tradition, five of w hich are in the H im laya M ountains: A marn (w here Shiva th first taught Kriya Yoga to his Shakti partner, Parvati Devi), Kedarn th, Badrin th (India), Kail san th, (Tibet) and Paupatin (N epal). th M eanw hile, Bhogan thar practiced Kundalini Yoga in four stages. The first three stages arc described in a later chapter on The Psychophysiology of Kriya Kundalini Pranayama . Bhogan thar chose the Palani M alai (mountain) in w hat is

Bhogar Mahrshi

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now southw estern Tamil N adu as the site for intensive yogic practice (tapas) for the final stage. H e attained swarpa sam dhi at Palani, through the grace of Lord M uruga, or the eternal youth, Kum Sw . The ra mi Kum rasw mi temple at Palani became the epicenter of his activities. H e visited many countries astrally, and physically and through transmigration. In one of his songs Bhogan thar claims to have flow n to China at one point in a sort of airplane w hich he built: he held discussions w ith Chinese Siddhas before returning to India Bhogar receiving instructions from his teacher, Klngi Nthar (Kailasapathy, 1969, p. 197-211). H is visit to South A merica has been confirmed by accounts left by the M uycas of Chile:
Bocha, w ho gave laws to M uycas, was a white, bearded man, wearing long robes, who regulated the calendar, established festivals, and vanished in time like others (other remarkable teachers who had come across the Pacific according to numerous legends of Incas, Aztecs and M ayans). (Lal 1965, p. 20).[2]

H e convened a meeting of many siddhas just before the beginning of the present Kali Yuga, in 3102 BC, to traversing the determine the best w ay for humanity Bhogar,Rome, and China. sky, Arabia, to progress along the spiritual path during the coming period of darkness. The Yoga of love and devotion, Bhakti Yoga, w as chosen as being the best means. Bhogan thar w as entrusted by the siddhas w ith the task of defining the rituals for the w orship of their favorite deity Palani ndavar , the Lord (M uruga) of Palani. M any rituals that center around the

observes faraway places like

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bathing (abhishekam) of an idol of Palani A ndavar w ith many substances, including panchaamirtam consisting of five fruits and honey, w ere developed by him and continue to be follow ed to this day. The idol had to be created from a substance that w ould last throughout Kali Yuga. The most resilient of know n substances, granite, w as know n to w ear and crack after thousands of such rituals. So Bhogan thar fashioned it out of nine secret herbal and chemical ingredients, nava pashanam, w hich made it harder than granite. Eight of the ingredients w ere combined in a mold of the idol. The ninth, w as added as a catalyst, to solidify it.

Bhogar worshipping Lord Dandyudhapni.

In recent times the scientists w ho attempted to determine the composition of a small sample of the Bhogar worshipping Lord Dandyudhapni. material of the idol, w ere startled to find that it immediately sublimated w hen heated. Thus its composition remains a mystery to date. The traces of the substance are contained in the ritual offerings in w hich it is bathed. When these are returned and consumed by the devotee, their spiritual progress is enhanced. A mission to China and transmigration K langi N thar decided to enter into sam dhi in seclusion for 3,000 years. H e summoned Bhogan thar telepathically from Tamil N adu to China to take over his mission. Bhogan thar traveled by sea, follow ing the trade route. In China, he w as instructed by K langi N thar in all aspects of the Siddha sciences. These included the preparation and use of the kaya kalpa herbal formulae to promote longevity. A fter K langi N thar entered into trance, Bhogan thar assumed his teaching mission to the Chinese. To facilitate this, he transmigrated his vital body into the physical body of a deceased Chinese man, and thereafter w ent by the name Bo-Yang . Bo is a derivation of the w ord Bhogam w hich means bliss, material and spiritual. This bliss, for w hich he w as named Bo-Yang is experienced w hen the Kundalini shakti, the feminine primordial yin energy aw akens, passes up to the crow n of the head, the seat of Shiva, the masculine yang pole, in the Sahasra cakra at the summit of the head and unites w ith it. The result of this integration of feminine and masculine parts of the

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being, or union ( Yoga ) of Shakti and Shiva, Yin and Yang, is Satchidananda: A bsolute Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. Transformation of his physical body Bhogan thar decided to overcome the limitations of the Chinese body, w ith its degenerative tendencies, and prolong its life through the use of the kaya kalpa herbs long enough for the effect of Kriya Kundalini Pranayama and related yogic techniques to bring swarpa sam dhi. In his poem Bhogar J Sutra 8, verse number 4, he na describes vividly w hat happened after carefully preparing a tablet using thirty five different herbs: With great care and patience I made the (kaya kalpa) tablet and then sw allow ed it: N ot w aiting for fools and skeptics w ho w ould not appreciate its hidden meaning and importance. Steadily I lived in the land of the parangis (foreigners) For tw elve thousand years, my fellow ! I lived for a long time and fed on the vital ojas (sublimated spiritual energy) With the ojas vindhu I received the name, Bhogar: The body developed the golden color of the pill: N ow I am living in a w orld of gold (based upon translation by Yogi S.A .A . Ramaiah, 1979, p. 40-42). H e chose three of his best disciples and his faithful dog, and took thorn to the top of a mountain. A fter first offering a tablet to the dog, the dog immediately fell over dead. H e next offered it to his leading disciple, Yu, w ho also immediately fell over dead. A fter offering it to the tw o remaining disciples, w ho by this time w ere extremely nervous, and w ho promptly hid their tablets rather than sw allow them, Bhogan thar sw allow ed the remaining tablets and also fell over unconscious. Crying w ith grief, the tw o remaining disciples w ent dow n the mountain to get material to bury the bodies. When the disciples returned to the spot w here the bodies had been left lying, all that w as found w as a note, in Bhogan thar handw riting, w hich said: s The kaya kalpa tablets are w orking. A fter aw akening from their trance I restored faithful Yu and the dog. You have missed your chance for immortality. (Ibid.) This kaya kalpa enabled Bhogan thar to transform the Chinese body over a period of 12,000 years, during w hich time it developed a lustrous golden color. (The physiological transformation to the state of sw arpa sam dhi w as, how ever, completed only later, at Palani in the final phases of Kriya Kundalini Yoga and related practices. These phases w ill be described in chapter 11. Bhogan thar ow n graphic s description is recorded in the poem at the end of this chapter Initiation into Sam dhi.) In this poem Sutras of Wisdom 8. he sings prophetically of the taking up of the practice of pranayama in modern times by millions of persons w ho w ould |otherw ise | What's | | Temples &| | Picture | | | Muruga
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Symbol of Sublime Renunciation 'Palani' by R.K. Das Will chant the unifying verse of the Vedanta. Palani Andavar Mayilvidu Thoothu: The Glory to the holy feet of Uma (the Divine M other of the Universe. Shakti), Incomparable Greatness of Lord Subrahmanya Will instruct you in the know ledge of the sciences, ranging from hypnotism to Ancient Chronology of Palani alchemy (kaya kalpa). Palaniandavar Arts College for Women Without the need for pills or tablets, the great scientific art of pranayama Palani Panchamirtham -- with the and recognized breathing, w ill be taught recipe! By millions of common Hill Temple Puja Timings and Fees people and chaste young w omen. Verse no. I (based upon translation by Yogi S.A .A . Ramaiah, 1982, p. 40). Master Plan for Palani Hill Temple Hill Temple Puja Services Temple Management, Revenue, Becomes known as Lao-Tzu, founder of Taoism Trustees and Administrators Photo Gallery of 36 temples A fter this incident w ith the Chinese disciples, Bo-Yang became also know n as Laoassociated with Dandayudhapani Swami Temple Tzu, and w as accessible for nearly 200 years, and trained hundreds of Chinese

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disciples in Tantric Yoga practices, w herein semen and sexual energies are conserved and sublimated into spiritual energies. The advanced techniques w hich he taught involve raising the energies from the mladh cakra corresponding to the perineum ra up to the sahasrara cakra during sexual intercourse w ith a spiritually minded partner, resulting in sublimated energy, tejas. manifesting throughout all the cells of the body. In the fifth century B.C., Confucius met Lao-Tzu Bo-Yang and afterw ards said of him:

I know a bird can fly, a fish can sw im, and an animal can run. For that w hich runs, a net can be fashioned; for that w hich sw ims, a line can be strung. But the ascent of a Dragon on the w ind into heaven is something w hich is beyond my know ledge. Today I have met Lao-Tzu, w ho is perhaps like a Dragon. A mong the Chinese, particularly, the Taoists, the Dragon is the symbol of Kundalini Shakti, the primordial force. A t the end of his mission to China, about 400 BC, Bhogan thar, w ith his disciple Yu (w hom he also gave the Indian name Pulipani) and other close disciples, left China by the land route. A s recorded in the Taoist literature, at the request of the gatekeeper at the H an Ku mountain pass Lao-Tzu crystallized his teachings. H e did so in tw o books, the Tao Ching, w ith 37 verses, and the Te Ching w ith 42 verses (M acKintosh, 1971).[3] In book tw o he says Do good to him who has done you injury w hich w as also said by the , contemporary Tamil Siddha, Tiruvalluvar in his Tirukkural (Tiruvalluvar, 1968). Taoist yoga traditions continue to seek physical immortality using techniques remarkably similar to those taught in Tamil Shiva Yoga Siddh nta. Return to I ndia A long their w ay, they visited several shrines in the H imalayas and K marpa, the famous Tantric Shakti shrine in A ssam. [4] H e composed his greatest w ork of

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700,000 verses near M t. Kailasa w ith the blessings of Lord Shiva. It w as later abridged to 7,000 verses, and is know n as Bhogar Sapta Kandam. H e later visited Gaya, India and A rabia. Upon his return to Tamil N adu he introduced the Chinese salts and chemistry, w hich he called C nac ram and porcelain making. H e submitted his 7,000 verse manuscript for evaluation to his guru, A gastyar at Courtrallam and to an academy of siddhas there. It w as endorsed by all of them as a great w ork. Follow ing this, many siddhas, including Konkanavar, Karuvoorar, N andeesw ar, Kamala M uni, Satta M uni, M acchamuni, and Sundarandar became his disciples to study the sciences of kaya kalpa and yoga. H e eventually turned over his teaching mission to Pulipani. Establishes shrine at Katirkamam and attains swarpa samdhi A fter performing tapas at Sathura Giri, and Shiva Gin, he w ent to Katirkamam in Sri Lanka to perform tapas and w in the grace of Lord M uruga. Under inspiration from the Lord he established the famous Yantra shrine, representing the 1,008 petalled lotus cakra, w hich blossomed in Bhogar there. N ext he w ent to Palani w here he attained swarpa sam dhi. H e retired to Katirk mam, where Babaji N agaraj met him around 211 A D. Second M ission to China Later, after the period of the Six Dynasties (220 to 590 A D), Bhogan thar returned w ith some Tamil disciples to China. H e left his mission in Tamil N adu w ith Pulipani, the Chinese Siddha. During the construction of the Brihit arar Shiva sw Temple in Tanjore, Tamil N adu, around

Kriya Babaji, disciple of Bhogar

Bhogar Nath and his young disciple Babaji Nagaraj at Kataragama, illustration from Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga Tradition

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900 A D. Bhogan thar advised its builders as to how to raise the eighty ton capstone to the top of the temple, more than 200 feet high. This w as done through his disciple Karuvoorar and another Tamil disciple w ho acted as intermediaries and through messages tied to the legs of courier birds, like today homing pigeons. A t Bhogar s s suggestion a gradient ramp five miles long w as built, up w hich the stone w as pulled to the top of the temple. This w as one of the most remarkable engineering feats of all times. A bout this time he also advised the King of Tanjore to build a small shrine dedicated to one of his greatest disciples, Karuvoorar, behind the Bhrihiteesw arar Shiva Temple. Current Activities

Kriya Babaji shrine, Kataragama

While Bhogan thar is reported to have left the physical plane at Palani, he continues to w ork on the astral plane, inspiring his disciples and devotees, and even in rare instances he transmigrates into another physical body for specific purposes. s

Source: Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga Tradition, by M . Govindan (Kriya Yoga Publications, 1991), pp. 113-118. End Notes [1] M aterial in this chapter is based upon the life story of the Siddha Bhogan thar narrated by Yogi S.A .A . Ramaiah in his introduction to the third volume of the collected w orks of Bhoganathar, Bogar Kandam Yogam: Babaji Yoga of Boganathar, and s notes in lectures. [2] A uthorities quoted by Bancroft in the Pacific States, Vol. V., 23-24. [3] See The Wandering Taoist by Deng M ing-Dao. 1983 for a contemporary account , of Taoist immortals and their practices in China, and The Tao and Chinese Culture by Da Liu. 1979 for a description of the highest goal of Taoist practices, golden immortality. [4] It is here that M acchamuni (M acchendran tha), one of his disciples, later composed the first great treatise on the scientific art of Kriya Tantra Yoga, from w hich arose the

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