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The life of Bhogar Siddhar
http://palani.org/bhogar-life.htm
Bhogar Shrine
Siddha Bhoganāthar: An Oceanic Life Story
http://palani.org/bhogar-biography.htm
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The life of Bhogar Siddhar
http://palani.org/bhogar-life.htm
Bhogar
was a South Indian by birth, belonging to the caste of goldsmiths, who became a
siddhapurusha under
the guidance of Kalanginaathar. In Bogar's Saptakanda he reveals
details of various medicinal preparations to his disciple Pullippani
(so named as he is believed to have wandered in the forests atop a puli or tiger) and at every stage he
quotes his guru as the authority. Also Pulippani
must have been a young man then, as he is often
referred to as a balaka.
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1 At
the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
2 And Jesus called a little child
unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
3 And said, Verily I say
unto you, Except ye
be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as
this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
6 But
whoso shall offend
one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
- Matthew 18:1-6 :: King James
Version (KJV)
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It is said that as per the last
wishes of his guru, Bhogar proceeded to China to spread the knowledge of siddha sciences and strangely enough his journey is said to
have been made with the aid of an aircraft; he demonstrated to the Chinese the
details of the construction of the aircraft and later built for them a
sea-going craft using a steam engine. The details of these and other
experiments demonstrated by Bhogar in
Bogar's guru, Kālāngi Nāthar, is
believed to be a Chinese who attained siddhi in
Lao Tse - the founder of Taoism (5th century
B.C.) was the first Chinese to propound the theory
of duality of matter -- the male Yang and female Yin -- which conforms to the Siddha concept of Shiva - Shakti
or positive-negative forces. This very same concept was first revealed
by the adi-siddhar Agasthya Rishi,
whose period is as old as the Vedas, which have been conservatively dated at 3500 B.C. Also alchemy
as a science was practised in China only after B.C.
135 and was practiced as an art until B.C. 175 when a royal decree was
enacted banning alchemical preparation of precious metals by the Celestial
Empire; these details are recounted in the two
existing Chinese books of alchemy Shih Chi
and Treatise of Elixir Refined in Nine Couldrons, both dated to the
first century B.C.
The emergence of Lao Tse with his theory of duality of matter and the journey of
Bhogar to China seem to have taken place about the same
time and it is even possible that Bhogar himself went under the name of Lao Tse
in China, like another Siddharishi Sriramadevar, who was known as
Yacob in Arabia.
This seems likely considering that:
During the time of Tirumalai Nayak, his general Ramappayyan handed over the puja rights to newly brought Brahmin priests. The descendants of Pulippani were compensated for the loss of this right by being given:
(Reference: The
life of Bhogar Siddhar.)
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Reference
Bhogar Shrine
No pilgrim should fail to mark attendance at the shrine of Bhogar in the southwestern corridor of the temple. He it was who created the navabhashana image and consecrated the deity.
God
is believed to have appeared to saints in certain forms. These are forms made
to appear to them by His grace or rather they are outward symbols of His mercy
as omnipresent, but assumes certain forms at certain times just as sea-water
sometimes takes the form of an iceberg.
Bhogar is believed to have lived in the beginning of Kali Yuga, i.e. before 3,000 B.C. and traveled widely in the Near- and Far East. He is said to have been a rare mathematical prodigy, a diplomat of great calibre and an expert in the field of medicine. He realised the importance of Muruga worship and conferred with siddhars on the form in which Muruga's image should be installed atop the hill. He created the amalgam of nine chemicals and did daily services.
Bhogar's
body rests here. The image of Nava Dûrgâ or Bhûvanesvari and the Maragadha (emerald) Siva Lingam
worshipped by him are found here. An underground passage is said to link the sanctum
sanctorum with the Bhogar shrine.
(Reference: Bhogar Shrine.)
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Siddha Bhoganāthar: An Oceanic Life Story
http://palani.org/bhogar-biography.htm
Siddha Bhoganāthar: An Oceanic Life Story
Bhogar Mahārshi
Bhoganāthar or Bhogar, the Jñāna Guru of Babaji, in the poem “Bhogar Jñāna Sagarama” (Bhogar’s Oceanic 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 Kālangi Nāthar initiated him in Jñāna Yoga (supreme self-knowledge).
Kālangi
Nāthar was born in Kaśi
(
Meanwhile, Bhoganāthar practiced Kundalini Yoga in four stages. The first three stages arc described in a later chapter on “The Psychophysiology of Kriya Kundalini Pranayama”. Bhoganāthar chose the Palani Malai (mountain) in what is now southwestern Tamil Nadu as the site for intensive yogic practice (tapas) for the final stage. He attained swarūpa samādhi at Palani, through the grace of Lord Muruga, or the eternal youth, “Kumāra Swāmi”. The Kumāraswāmi temple at Palani became the epicenter of his activities.
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1 At
the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
2 And Jesus called a little child
unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
3 And said, Verily I say
unto you, Except ye
be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as
this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
6 But
whoso shall offend
one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
- Matthew 18:1-6 :: King James
Version (KJV)
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He
visited many countries astrally, and physically and
through transmigration. In one of his songs Bhoganāthar
claims to have flown to
“Bocha, who gave laws to Muycas,
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
Mayans).” (Lal 1965, p. 20).[2]
He convened a meeting of many siddhas just before the beginning of the present Kali Yuga, in 3102 BC, to determine the best way for humanity to progress along the spiritual path during the coming period of darkness. The Yoga of love and devotion, Bhakti Yoga, was chosen as being the best means. Bhoganāthar was entrusted by the siddhas with the task of defining the rituals for the worship of their favorite deity “Palani Āndavar”, the Lord (Muruga) of Palani.
Many rituals that center around
the bathing (abhishekam)
of an idol of Palani Andavar
with many substances, including panchaamirtam consisting of five fruits and honey, were
developed by him and continue to be followed to this day. The idol had to be
created from a substance that would last throughout Kali Yuga. The most resilient of known substances, granite, was
known to wear and crack after thousands of such rituals. So Bhoganāthar
fashioned it out of nine secret herbal and chemical ingredients, nava pashanam,
which made it harder than granite. Eight of the ingredients were combined in a
mold of the idol. The ninth, was added as a catalyst, to solidify it.
In recent times the scientists who attempted to determine the composition of a small sample of the material of the idol, were startled to find that it immediately sublimated when heated. Thus its composition remains a mystery to date. The traces of the substance are contained in the ritual offerings in which it is bathed. When these are returned and consumed by the devotee, their spiritual progress is enhanced.
A
mission to
Kālangi Nāthar decided to enter into samādhi
in seclusion for 3,000 years. He summoned Bhoganāthar
telepathically from Tamil Nadu to
Transformation
of his physical body
Bhoganāthar
decided to overcome the limitations of the
Chinese body, with 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 swarūpa samādhi. In his poem Bhogar Jñāna Sutra 8, verse number 4, he describes
vividly what happened after carefully preparing a tablet using thirty five
different herbs:
With great care and patience I made the (kaya kalpa) tablet and then swallowed it:
Not waiting for fools and skeptics who would not appreciate its hidden meaning and importance.
Steadily I lived in the land of the parangis (foreigners) For twelve 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:
Now I am living in a world of gold
(based upon translation by Yogi S.A.A. Ramaiah, 1979, p. 40-42).
He chose three of his best disciples and his faithful dog, and took them to the top of a mountain. After first offering a tablet to the dog, the dog immediately fell over dead. He next offered it to his leading disciple, Yu, who also immediately fell over dead. After offering it to the two remaining disciples, who by this time were extremely nervous, and who promptly hid their tablets rather than swallow them, Bhoganāthar swallowed the remaining tablets and also fell over unconscious. Crying with grief, the two remaining disciples went down the mountain to get material to bury the bodies. When the disciples returned to the spot where the bodies had been left lying, all that was found was a note, in Bhoganāthar’s handwriting, which said:
The kaya kalpa tablets are working. After awakening from their trance I restored faithful Yu and the dog. You have missed your chance for immortality. (Ibid.)
This kaya kalpa enabled Bhoganāthar to transform the Chinese body over a period of 12,000 years, during which time it developed a lustrous golden color. (The physiological transformation to the state of swarūpa samādhi was, however, completed only later, at Palani in the final phases of Kriya Kundalini Yoga and related practices. These phases will be described in chapter 11. Bhoganāthar’s own graphic description is recorded in the poem at the end of this chapter Initiation into Samādhi.)
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 who would otherwise have succumbed to drug abuse:
Will chant the unifying verse of the Vedanta.
Glory to the holy feet of Uma (the Divine Mother of the Universe. Shakti),
Will instruct you in the knowledge of the sciences, ranging from hypnotism to alchemy (kaya kalpa).
Without
the need for pills or tablets, the great scientific art of pranayama
breathing, will be taught and recognized
By millions of common people and chaste young women.
Verse no. I (based upon translation by Yogi S.A.A. Ramaiah, 1982, p. 40).
Becomes
known as Lao-Tzu, founder of Taoism
After this incident with the Chinese disciples, Bo-Yang became also known as Lao-Tzu, and was accessible for nearly 200 years, and trained hundreds of Chinese disciples in Tantric Yoga practices, wherein semen and sexual energies are conserved and sublimated into spiritual energies. The advanced techniques which he taught involve raising the energies from the mūladhāra cakra corresponding to the perineum up to the sahasrara cakra during sexual intercourse with 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 afterwards said of him:
I know a bird can fly, a fish can
swim, and an animal can run. For that which runs, a net can be fashioned; for
that which swims, a line can be strung. But the ascent of a Dragon on the wind
into heaven is something which is beyond my knowledge. Today I have met
Lao-Tzu, who is perhaps like a Dragon. Among the
Chinese, particularly, the Taoists, the Dragon is the
symbol of Kundalini Shakti,
the primordial force.
At the end of his mission to
In book two he says ‘Do good to him who has done you injury’, which was 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 Siddhānta.
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Along their way, they visited
several shrines in the Himalayas and Kāmarūpa, the
famous Tantric Shakti
shrine in Assam.[4] He composed his greatest
work of 700,000 verses near Mt. Kailasa with the
blessings of Lord Shiva. It was later abridged to 7,000 verses, and is known as
Bhogar Sapta Kandam. He later visited
Following this, many siddhas, including Konkanavar, Karuvoorar, Nandeeswar, Kamala Muni, Satta Muni, Macchamuni, and Sundarandar became his disciples to study the sciences of kaya kalpa and yoga. He eventually turned over his teaching mission to Pulipani.
Establishes
shrine at Katirkamam and attains swarūpa
samādhi
After performing tapas at Sathura Giri, and Shiva Gin, he went to Katirkamam in
Second
Later, after
the period of the Six Dynasties (220 to 590 AD), Bhoganāthar
returned with some Tamil disciples to
Current
Activities
While
Bhoganāthar is reported to have left the
physical plane at Palani, he continues to work on the
astral plane, inspiring his disciples and devotees, and even in rare instances
he transmigrates into another’s physical body for specific purposes.
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Source: Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga Tradition, by M. Govindan (Kriya Yoga Publications, 1991), pp. 113-118.
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Notes
[1] Material in this chapter is based upon the life story of the Siddha Bhoganāthar narrated by Yogi S.A.A. Ramaiah in his introduction to the third volume of the collected works of Bhoganathar, Bogar Kandam Yogam: Babaji’s Yoga of Boganathar, and notes in lectures.
[2] Authorities quoted by Bancroft in the Pacific States, Vol. V., 23-24.
[3] See ‘The
Wandering Taoist’, by Deng Ming-Dao. 1983 for a contemporary account of Taoist immortals and their practices
in
[4] It is here that Macchamuni (Macchendranātha),
one of his disciples, later composed the first great treatise on the scientific
art of Kriya Tantra Yoga,
from which arose the Kalpia
and Kapalika tantric
traditions.
(Reference: Siddha Bhoganāthar: An Oceanic Life Story.)
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