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  • More Detailed Yoga Jabala Darsana Upanishad

    Yoga Sutra of Patanjali,speaks of Eight Limbed Yoga,Ashtanga Yoga.

    They are ,

    Yama,

    Niyama,

    Asana,

    Pranayama,

    Dhyana,

    Prtathyaahaara,

    Dharana and

    Samadhi.

    Patanjali is not the founder of Yoga.

    He codified the practices of Yoga.

    Vedas speak of Yoga very subtly.

    The obejective of Human Life is to realize the Self.

    This is possible only when one can control and channelize the thoughts in the effort to control Chitta,which exists at a higher level than thoughts.

    Patanjali describes ,in the first Sutra of his Yoga Sutra,

    ‘Yogaha,Chitta vruthi nirodhdha’

    The cessation of the modification of Chitta is Yoga,Communion.

    For more on this,please read my articles on Yoga Sutra.

    By limiting the Thought waves, Consciousness is controlled through Breath Control.

    Breath Control is described by Patanjali under Pranayama.

    All the steps of Yoga are to be followed in the order described by Patanjali.

    I have listed them in the order at the beginning of this article.

    Performing Yoga in any other manner,like doing Pranayama or the so called Meditation without going through Yama ,Niyama etc. Is not Yoga.

    It might appear to produce results, but would harm,in the long run,physically and spiritually.

    Packaged Yoga to suit masses is injurious.

    I have written that the effort in Yoga is to control Chitta through these steps of Patanjali.

    The process of controlling Chitta direct through Breath control is callled Vaasi Yoga and Lord Shiva was the First to practice it.

    The process of Vaasi Yoga is Shiva.

    Read Vaasi backwards,it is,Shiva.

    Please check my detailed article on this.

    There is an Upanishad in the,Sama Veda dedicated to Yoga process.

    This was taught bt Lord Dattatreya to Sage Sankrithi.

    This is the Jabali Darshana Upanishad.


    Jabala Darshana Upanishad, Translation by Sri.P.R.Ramchander.

    Om ! Let my limbs and speech, Prana, eyes, ears, vitality
    And all the senses grow in strength.
    All existence is the Brahman of the Upanishads.
    May I never deny Brahman, nor Brahman deny me.
    Let there be no denial at all:
    Let there be no denial at least from me.
    May the virtues that are proclaimed in the Upanishads be in me,
    Who am devoted to the Atman; may they reside in me.
    Om ! Let there be Peace in me !
    Let there be Peace in my environment !
    Let there be Peace in the forces that act on me !

    God Dattatreya is the reincarnation of the four armed Vishnu and he is the ruler of the world. Sankrithi is a great devotee and a sage and is an expert in yoga and also a disciple of Dattatreya. He approached his teacher (God Dattatreya) with humility and with folded hands, when his teacher was alone and requested him, “Oh God, please tell me about the science of yoga which has eight branches and five different sthanas (places) by knowing which I will attain salvation. Dattatreya told him, “Hey Sankrithi, I shall tell you about Yoga which has eight branches. The eight branches are Yama, Niyama, Aasana, Pranayama, Prathyahara, Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi.

    Yama which is the first is the practice of non-violence, truth, non possession of properties of others, celibacy, mercy, honesty, patience, stability, food discipline and cleanliness. 1

    Niyama is the ten aspects of penance, joy, orthodoxy, charity, worship of god, hearing of philosophy, fear for bad actions, clear intellect, chanting and austerities. 2

    The nine important Asanas (sitting positions) are Swasthika (Swastika), Gomukha (cows face), Padma (lotus), Veera (valorous), Simha (lion), Badra (safe), Muktha (free), Mayura (peacock) and Sukha (pleasant). Oh sage, that position, whatever it may be but which makes you comfortable and gives you courage to undertake Yoga is called Sukhasana. People who do not have strength to take up other positions can use that. Victory in the seating position is like victory over the three worlds. Once the Asana is fixed, one should practice Pranayama.  3

    Either in the top of the mountain or by the shore of the river or under a Bilwa tree in the forest, after choosing a clean place which is acceptable to the mind and after establishing a place to do tapas (Asram), sit in the Asana which is most familiar facing either east or north. Then sit with the body neck and head in a straight line, cover the face and concentrate the vision with best possible attention on the nectar flowing from the fourth state of the moon like dot at the end of the nose. Draw the air inside using the lungs, store it in the stomach, meditate on the flame of fire inside the body and then shift meditation to the root of fire with its sound and dot. Then the intelligent one will exhale and draw the Prana using Pingala (Nadi which is tawny and is on the right side of Sushumna Nadi) and meditate on the Agni Bheeja. Again he has to exhale and inhale again in the middle using the Ida (Nadi which is pleasant and is on the left side of Sushumna). One should have to live in a secret place practicing this exercise six times for 3-4 days or 3-4 weeks at dawn, noon and dusk. This would help him to clean up the Nadis. Slowly symbols will start showing up. Body will become light, the fire in the stomach will burn well and the voice would become clearer. These are the symbols of Siddhi (getting mastery). Till you see this, you have to practice. 4

    Now I will tell you about Prathyahara. To use force and divert the sensory organs which normally travel according to their nature is Prathyahara. Those who know Brahma say that seeing whatever we see as the form of Brahman is Prathyahara. Prathyahara also is doing clean or unclean acts as those belonging to Brhaman. Further doing daily religious activities after dedicating them to God and similarly doing the activities which we desire is also Prathyahara. Apart from this inhaling air (oxygen) and stopping it in different places is also Prathyahara. The wise man would sit in Swasthikasana, draw his breath till it fills up from head to toe and hold it in two feet, mooladhara, stomach, middle of the heart, bottom of the neck, jaw, middle of the eyelids, forehead and at the top of the skull. Then he should leave out the belief that the body is oneself and make that thought as nirvikalpa and merge it with Paramatma. The experts in Vedanta say that this is true Prathyahara. There is nothing that cannot be attained by those who practice like this.  5

    Now I will tell you about the five types of Dharana (holding steady – a stage in meditation – here we try to hold on what we are mediating upon without wavering). In the sky which is in the middle of the body, Dharana of the sky outside should be made. Similarly in the breath, Dharana of air outside should be made. In the fire in the stomach, Dharana of the fire outside should be made. In the fluid aspects of the body, Dharana of the water outside should be made. In the earthy aspects of the body, Dharana of the earth outside should be made. Sage, also it is necessary to chant the pancha bhootha mantras viz., Ham, Yam, Ram, Vam and Lam. It is said that this very great Dharana destroys all sins. In the body up to the knee is the aspect of the earth, from there till hip it is the aspect of water, up to the heart is the aspect of fire, up to middle of eyelids is the aspect of air and then up to the middle of the skull is the aspect of the sky. In the aspect of earth Brahma has to be placed, in the aspect of water Vishnu should be placed, in the aspect of fire Rudra should be placed, in the aspect of air Iswara should be placed and in the aspect of sky, the Sadashiva should be placed. Hey great sage, I will also tell you another Dharana. In the Jeevatma, that lord Shiva who rules over everything and is the personification of wisdom should be placed. To get rid of all sins, the wise man should suppress the gods like Brahma in the causative self, and place the Avyakta (that which is not clear) which is formless and which is the root cause inside the entire soul with the chanting of pranava. He should control the sensory organs by mind and should merge them with the soul. 6

    I will now tell you about Dhyana (meditation) which destroys sorrow. Dhyana should be done of that Maheswara, who is the medicine for problems arising out of birth, who is the discipline and fundamental basis of the world who is of the form of Para Brahma, who has the masculine power upwards, who is of the form of the world, who is Virupaksha, and who is the head of all yogis as “I am He”. Then continue to do Dhyana of him who is beyond the reach of meditation, who is the personification of Sachidananda Brahman and who is soul in person as “I am He” for attaining salvation. In the mind of that great Purusha who practices like this, the science of Vedanta would automatically appear. There is no doubt about it.  7

    Now I will tell you about Samadhi (deep meditative state)  which destroys the ills of birth and death. Samadhi is that state in which there is knowledge that Jeevatma and Paramatma are one. Atma (soul) is filled all over for ever and does not have motion or stain. Though it is one, due to the effects of illusion, it appears as different objects. Really there is no difference between these so called objects. When one sees all objects within himself and him as a part of all objects, He attains Brahman.  When one drowns himself in Samadhi and does not see different objects as different , then he attains the single aim of salvation. When he sees only the true soul and the entire world appears as an illusion to him and he is cured of all sorrow.

    Thus advised by Lord Dattatreya the sage Sankrithi fully lost all his fear and attained that blissfull state, deep in himself.

    Om ! Let my limbs and speech, Prana, eyes, ears, vitality
    And all the senses grow in strength.
    All existence is the Brahman of the Upanishads.
    May I never deny Brahman, nor Brahman deny me.
    Let there be no denial at all:
    Let there be no denial at least from me.
    May the virtues that are proclaimed in the Upanishads be in me,
    Who am devoted to the Atman; may they reside in me.
    Om ! Let there be Peace in me !
    Let there be Peace in my environment !
    Let there be Peace in the forces that act on me !

    Citation. http://www.arunachala-ramana.org/upanishads/jabala_darsana_upanishad.htm

  • Four Tools To Remove Negative Thoughts Yoga Sutra 1.33

    Indian Philosophy distinguishes three aspects,

    Between Brain,Mind,Intellect.

    The Brain,the physical organ receives the signals,Stimulii.

    At the this level what is received remains as raw Data.

    The Mind,Manas,ascribes file folders  like agreeable,disagreeable,the Genus the Stimuli belongs to.

    It does not go further,excepting associating the Stimuli with Emotion.

    But is Buddhi,this can be translated roughly as Intellect ,passes judgement by assigning Labels such as Correct,Incorrect,factual judgements ;Right or Wrong ,Moral Judgement.

    How and why Buddhi behaves the way it does?

    It is because of Chitta,which is Consciousness.

    The Individual Consciousness is,till it Realizes its Identity with the Universal Reality,Brahman,is tethered to Swabhava,one’s natural disposition and Karmaphala,fruits of actions.

    More of this later.

    As Yoga is the effort to effect Union of the Individual Consciousness with the Universal One,the Chitta is to be corrected,purified.

    The reflections in the Chitta,when it is not fully Realized,is conditioned be downstream Data from Intellect,Mind.

    This Data has to be properly reflected upon.

    The negative inputs gathered as explained in the earlier Sutras are to be handled by the following four tools.

    Friendship,

    Mercy,

    Gladness, and

    Indifference.

    Patanjali Yoga Sutra 1.33.image
    Patanjali Yoga sutra1.33

    Swami Vivekananda explains thus,

    ‘maitreekarunamuditopekshanan
    sukhaduhkhapunyapunyavishayanan
    bhavanatashchittaprasadanam’

    Friendship, mercy, gladness, indifference, being
    thought of in regard to subjects, happy, unhappy,
    good and evil respectively, pacify the Chitta.
    We must have these four sorts of ideas. We must have
    friendship for all; we must be merciful towards those that are
    in misery; when people are happy we ought to be happy, and
    to the wicked we must be indifferent. So with all subjects that
    come before us. If the subject is a good one, we shall feel
    friendly towards it; if the subject of thought is one that is
    miserable we must be merciful towards the subject. If it is
    good we must be glad, if it is evil we must be indifferent.
    These attitudes of the mind towards the different subjects that
    come before it will make the mind peaceful. Most of our
    difficulties in our daily lives come from being unable to hold
    our minds in this way. For instance, if a man does evil to us,

    instantly we want to react evil, and every reaction of evil shows that we are not able to hold the Chitta down; it comes out in waves towards the object, and we lose our power. Eve

    Every reaction in the form of hatred or evil is so much loss to the
    mind, and every evil thought or deed of hatred, or any thought
    of reaction, if it is controlled, will be laid in our favour. It is
    not that we lose by thus restraining ourselves; we are gaining
    infinitely more than we suspect. Each time we suppress
    hatred, or a feeling of anger, it is so much good energy stored
    up in our favour; that piece of energy will be converting into the higher powers.

    Related. https://ramanisblog.in/2017/03/12/solution-to-overcome-confusion-yoga-sutra-1-32-samadhi-pada/

  • Vedas Complied In The Arctic Why How By Whom ? Part 2

    Sage Agastya came to South twice.

    He came to South when Shiva asked him to go to south to balance the earth when Shiva married Uma in the Himalayas.

    This is dated around 40,00,000 thousands years ago.

    The next time he came down to south was around 5000 BC.

    The dates have been arrived at by tracking the movement of Star Canopus,called Agastya,which is visible in the southern lattidues once on 5000 years.

    Please check my articles on these.

    The fact that Shiva had to send him to an area which was far off is mentioned in the Puranas,especially the Skanda,Linga,Shiva  Purana stating that the place he had to go was Dravida.

    The tone and tenor convey a distant land, not a geographically adjacent one.

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    8.One may notice that Shiva is not mentioned directly in the Vedas as Vishnu and others are.He, however , is repeatedly mentioned in the Tamil Classics.

    He was called the ‘Ancient of the Ancients’

    The Shiva cult precedes Sanatana Dharma as is evidenced from the Earliest Tamil works like Agathiyam,written by Agastya and Tholkaapiyam by Tholkappiyar.

    Both Agastya and Tholkaapiyar were Rishis, as declared by them.

    They refer Shiva as the primary deity.

    Rama,Krishna,Vishnu are also mentioned and their period is mentioned.

    But not Shiva’s.

    He is mentioned as beyond Time.

    This indicates that Shiva cult was present  in the south even before  Shiva’s marriage with Uma in the Himalayas.

    In the Shiva cult of the early times the Vedas,though mentioned, are not assigned a date.But the texts are clear that Shiva as a separate Entity though not in conflict with the Vedas is mentioned as the Ancient One.

    9.The Avatars of Shiva are not in vogue in the north as much as in the south.

    They are called Thiruvilayadal in Tamil and they are documented.

    They are 64 in numbers.

    Please read my article on this.

    These avatars are reported to have taken place in the Tamil ,Dravida Region.

    They,at least most of them,took place in Madurai.

    This is not the present Madurai ,Tamil Nadu.

    This refers to Then (south) Madurai which was devored by  the sea.

    This was in Lemuria,and Then Madurai is mentioned along with Kapatapuram and Vanchi.

    The Shiva worship was prevalent there before Rama and Krishna worship.

    This speaks of a parallel system of philosophy in the south,though not at variance with the the Vedas.

    10.Lord Shiva is considered to be the founder of the Tamil language.

    He founded the language along with Sage who wrote the First  Tamil book on Grammar,Agathiyam.

    The Tamils conducted Poets’s Conclaves.

    There were three such Conclaves,Tamil Sangam.

    The first one was presided over by Shiva and the third one by Subrahmanya,his son,who is also considered to be a co founder of Tamil.He was called Murugan.

    The Tamil Sangam was attended by Lord Krishna.

    He participated as a special invitee.

    Please read my article on this.

    This indicates the Shiva worship, presence preceded Krishna’s.

    11.Lord Shiva got married to, in one of His avatars,to Meenakshi of Madurai.

    Shiva, in this Avatar, was called Chokkanatha,Sundareswara in Sanskrit.

    Meenakshis father Malayadwaja Pandya participated in the Mahabharata war alongside the Pandavas.

    The marriage ceremony was conducted through the Vedic rites.

    This is specifically mentioned.

    This is of importance as the marriage was not conducted the Tamil way.

    This means the Vedic custom did not take deep roots then.

    12.Rama finds references in the ancient classics of the Tamils.

    He,as in the case of Krishna,was treated as a human being,though he was worshiped later.

    This again confirms that the Vedic people were considered as from the north with a culture,though similar from the north,Aryavarth,Meaning from a ‘Blemishless place’

    13.Rama worshiped Shiva as Ramanatha at Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu after killing Ravana.

    14.Ravana was from the Dravida desa and a Brahmin.

    He married Mandodari from the north overcoming objections to the marriage of Mandodari to a Dravida.

    15.Ravana learnt the Vedas and recited them at Kailash, the Abode of Shiva .

    16.Ravana built the Shiva Temple at Koneswaram, Sri Lanka which anti dates Indian temples..

    17.Rama’s,ancestor Vaivaswatha Manu was from Dravida Desa and he migrated to Ayodhya and his son Ikshvaku founded the Ikshvaku Dyasty.

    18.Vaivaswatha Manu meditated in Madagascar.

    19.Shiva temples,which are quite ancient,are quite numerous as compared to North.

    20.While Shiva’s marriage with Uma and Shiva’s loneliness because of the loss of Sati and Shiva as an ascetic is known in the north, not much of Him is heard there as in the south,about His sons,Ganesha and Subrahmanya,which is detailed in the south

    21.Vasi yoga is the predecessor of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra and this was revealed in the South by Shiva.

    22.The Siddhas,the Enlightened souls, from the south had  a distinct system of Shiva worship and they were aware of Vedas. Patanjali,Agastya and Valimiki were Siddhas and have wriiten philosophical treatises in Tamil.

    Valmiki mentions in his Tamil poem that he was a Vedic Brahmin.

    23.The Avatars of Vishnu,(Parashurama,Vamana,Kurma and Varaha)took place in the south.Of these,Kurma and Varaha took place just after The Vedas were compiled.

    24.The migration to north seems to have been necessitated because of Great flood in each yuga and Puranas/ ithihasas/Tamil classics assert this.

    25.Thiruvannamalalai,Tamil Nadu is 3.64 billion years old and Jwalapuram,Cuddapah,Telengana,which houses Nataraja is 74,000 years old.

    I can go on adding.

    What happened after the flood and the compilation of the Vedas will be detailed in the forthcoming article.

    Vedas Complied In The Arctic Why How By Whom ? Part 1

  • 2700 Year Old Yogi Remains In Padmasana Gyan Mudra Harappa

    While Yoga is being sold by Corporate Gurus today, it is necessary to remember that Yoga as a system of Spiritual development   was in vogue probably by or before the Rig Veda which is dated around 5000 BC.

    However I have provided information that the Vedas date back much earlier, going back to at least 75000 years.

    Yogi remains found in Harappa.
    Yogi Remains in Baithal, Padmasana and with Gyan Mudra

    While there is no specific reference to Yoga is found in the Vedas, Yoga seems to have been in vogue during that period or earlier.

    The Tamils speak of Lord Shiva as the Chief/First Yogin and `and Sage Agastya and Bhogar being His disciples.

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    Lord Shiva.

    They were called Siddhas .

    Please read my posts on Siddhas

    And while Shiva is not mentioned in detail in the Vedas the Tamil literature speaks of Him.

    Evidence about Thiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu being 3.94 Billion years and Jwalapuram in Telengana, India being 74000 yeras old has come to light.

     

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    The 2,700 year old skeletal remains of an ancient yogi sitting in samadhi have been found in an Indus valley civilization archaeological site located at Balathal, Rajasthan.

    Many Indus Valley seals depict pictures of yogis sitting in lotus position. Here are two examples showing ancient yogis sitting in meditation and keeping their hands on their knees as done in modern yoga meditations. If we see the skeletal remains of the yogi above, we can note that his fingers are in gyana mudra (with thumb touching index finger), resting on his knees as well….

    Balathal is an archaeological site located in Vallabhnagar tehsil of Udaipur district of Rajasthan state in western India. This site, located 6 km from Vallabhnagar town and 42 km from Udaipur city, was discovered by V. N. Misra during a survey in 1962-63. Excavation began in 1994 jointly by the Department of Archaeology of the Deccan College Post-graduate and Research Institute, Pune and the Institute of Rajasthan Studies, Udaipur…

    Excavation of sites from the 4,500 year old Ahar culture provide clues to the link between the Harappans and their predecessors.

    That it existed at all was a surprise – a fortified enclosure of mud and brick, comparable to the citadels of the Harappans, spread over 500 sq m. It was filled with ash and cowdung. A people called the Ahars had built it in Balathal near modern Udaipur some 4,500 years ago.

    Carbon dating established that they had lived in and around the Mewar region in Rajasthan between 3,500 and 1,800 B.C. They were Mewar’s first farmers, older even than the Harappans. But why had they built a fort only to fill it with ash and cowdung? To solve the mystery, a team of Indian archaeologists excavating the site went on removing layer after layer of civilisation.

    The mystery deepened. They found five skeletons, four in layers between 2,000 B.C. and 1,800 B.C. That was the age of stone and copper, the chalcolithic age. This was the first time human skeletons had been found at any Ahar site. The Ahars, it had been thought, cremated their dead. And the Harappans buried theirs.

    There are 90 sites of Ahar – a rural society. The recent round of excavations is establishing that Ahar culture and Harappan civilisation were different though contemporary and related. This village life emerged much before the mature Harappan era.

    Harappa’s progress in the mature Harappan period (2,500 B.C.) helped the rural Ahar people to flourish and develop their own township and stone and brick houses. On the scale of civilisation, they emerged far ahead of other chalcolithic cultures in the subcontinent.

    And they may be the missing link to show how the Indus people made such a quantum leap from small rural communities to an advanced civilisation.

    Ahar culture flourished predominantly in the Mewar region of Rajasthan, on the eastern side of the Aravallis, and in undulating rocky plateaus and plains along the Banas river and its tributaries.

    In modern Rajasthan, Ahar sites have been reported in Udaipur, Chittorgarh, Dungarpur, Bhilwara, Rajsamand, Bundi, Tonk and Ajmer dotting10,000 sq km. “There is a commonality in all 90-sites located in South eastern Rajasthan and parts of Madhya Pradesh,” says Jaipur-based Rima Hooja, a scholar on Ahar culture.

    Their name comes from a mid-1950s excavation led by R.C. Aggarwal, former director of archaeology, Rajasthan, at Ahar near Udaipur. A few years later, one excavation was carried out at Gilund in Rajsamand and then the focus shifted to the Harappans.

    The Deccan College, Pune and Institute of Rajasthan Studies, Rajasthan Vidyapeeth, Udaipur turned their attention to Ahar culture in 1994 and began excavations in Balathal. Deccan College and the University of Pennsylvania began digging in Gilund in 1999 and the Jaipur circle of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) began excavation at Ojiyana in Bhilwara in 2000. And discoveries began pouring in.

    Gwen Robbins, a biological anthropologist from the University of Oregon, USA, in her ongoing preliminary analysis of the bones, found the first skeleton uncovered was of a male. Dead at the age of 50, he suffered from a joint disease and had lost all but four of his teeth at least five years before death. On closer inspection of the remains, a left mandible and a few cranial fragments were found to be of a second individual aged 35 whose sex couldn’t be determined.

    The third skeleton was of a female approximately 35 years of age.The fourth was of a 35-year-old woman, and it caught the archaeologists’ interest. It had been buried with a small earthen lota (pot) near the head. Why was the lota there? “I am certain that the fortified enclosure had a ritual function,” says Dr V.N. Mishra, former principal of the Deccan College, who led the excavations: “You don’t find such selective burials in cow dung and ash anywhere else.”

    The fifth skeleton, from a different era, was of an adult male 35 to 40 years old, and had been buried in a seated position that resembles the modern samadhi burial of sadhus who renounce the world. The ritual of burial in ash and cowdung raises the need to look at related traditions in present-day Hindu communities such as Gosain and Jogi which bury their dead.

    Citation and reference.

    http://www.indiadivine.org/2700-year-old-yogi-samadhi-found-indus-valley-civilization-archaeological-site/

     

     

  • Mahavatar Babaji Is Nagarajan Parangipettai

    Mahavatar Babaji Is Nagarajan Parangipettai

    Vedas are the signposts informing people about the route to be taken by one who wants to realise the Fundamental Cause, The Reality, the Brahman.

    This can be only through experience and not by logic alone.

    Logic is to be used to reinforce Faith, not to destroy it.

    Logic can take only a few steps, while experience with honest Logic can take you places.

    What is Honest logic?

    The Logic that tells you that Logic ends here and only experience alone can take you further.

    This is done by the Vedas.

    The Vedas were not written by any one.

    They are the experiences of great realized souls and as such contain gems of Truth.

    As with experiences, they are varied.

    People react differently to experiences.

    The impression en experience leaves on one differs from the other.

    Some times the same experience might leave different impression at different times.

    And our grasp of, reaction to Experience is determined by Disposition.

    So the though the Truth is One, the Perspectives are Many.

    All are correct.

    For, each perspective is unique.

    Therefore the Path to God is varied.

    The experiences are given in the Vedas, and other Texts of Hinduism, Sanatana Dharma.

    Each experience is unique.

    They are expressions of experiences which ae, as I said earlier, by Dispositions.

    One might like to be busy, work.

    Another emotional.

    Yet another highly intellectually disposed.

    To suit these dispositions there are three various Paths in Hinduism.

    Broadly classified as,

    Gnyana Yoga, the Path of Knowledge.

    Karma Yoga, Path of Action,

    Bhakthi Yoga, Path of Surrender,Bhakti,Love to God,

    Raja Yoga, Path of Mind Regulation.

    There are two systems in Raja Yoga.

    One is Yoga by Patanjali and another is by Thirumoolar.

    Though essentially they are the same, minor differences in application may be noticed.

    Then we have Siddhas, both from the South and North of Vindhyas in India.

    Generally these Siddhas of the North follow Patanjali, and in South the Siddhas follow Agastya, Bhogar.

    Patanjali is reported to be a disciple of Bhogar.

    For all the First Siddha is Shiva.Shiva

    Of the Siddhas of from the Himalayas, Kriya yogi Mahavtar Babaji is well-known.

    But some basic details, most of us are unaware of.

    It is presumed that He is from the North of Vindhyas,possibly from Himalayas.

    Though it is incorrect to assign geographically limit these realized Souls, I am providing some information for the records,

    ‘Mahavatar Babaji (IAST: Mahāvatār Bābājī) is the name given to an Indian saint and yogi by Lahiri Mahasaya and several of his disciples[2] who met Mahavatar Babaji between 1861 and 1935. Some of these meetings were described by Paramahansa Yogananda in his book Autobiography of a Yogi, including a first hand telling of Yogananda’s own meeting with Mahavatar Babaji.[3]Another first hand account was given by Yukteswar Giri in his book The Holy Science.All of these accounts, along with additional meetings with Mahavatar Babaji, are described in various biographies of those mentioned by Yogananda.

    ..There are very few accounts of Babaji’s childhood, one source of information is the book Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga tradition by Marshall Govindan. According to Govindan, Babaji was named Nagarajan (king of serpents) by his parents. V.T. Neelakantan and S.A.A. Ramaiah founded on 17 October 1952, (they claim – at the request of Babaji) a new organisation, “Kriya Babaji Sangah,” dedicated to the teaching of Babaji’s Kriya Yoga. They claim that in 1953 Mahavatar Babaji told them that he had been born on 30 November 203 CE in a small coastal village now known as Parangipettai, in Tamil Nadu, India. Babaji’s Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas Trust (Kriya Babaji Sangah) and their branch organisations claim his place and date of birth.He was a disciple of Bogar and his birth name is Nagarajan’

    Mahavatar Babaji – a drawing fromAutobiography of a Yogi, commissioned by Yogananda and based on his own meeting with Babaji
    Born Nagarajan
    30 November 203 CE[1]
    Parangipettai, Tamil Nadu,India
    Nationality Indian
    Titles/honours Deathless spiritual master; Mahamuni Babaji Maharaj; Maha Yogi; Trambak Baba; Shiva Baba
    Order Self-realization
    Guru Bogar
    Philosophy Kriya Yoga
    Notable disciple(s) Lahiri Mahasaya and others

    For More about Him and His System follow the last Link.

    Yogananda’s description

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavatar_Babaji

    http://www.babajiskriyayoga.net/

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