BABAJI'S KRIYA YOGA 144 TECHNIQUES[Notes from the lessons of Yogi Ramaiah and Marshall Govindan Satchidananda. First level: from 1 to 25.
Contents • • • • • • • • • Life [ ] Birth and education [ ] Mahendranath was born to Madhusudan Gupta and Swarnamayi Devi in a Vaidya-Brahmin family in the Shimuliya section of of. After elementary education at the, he attended, receiving his B.A. Gupta was a gifted student and performed consistently well until 1874 till he graduated from Presidency College. In 1874 he was married to Nikunja Devi, daughter of Thakur Charan Sen and a relative of, a leader.
After some time working for the government and a merchant house, he began teaching English, Psychology, and Economics at various colleges. Eventually he became headmaster of 's high school, where he was called 'Master Mahashay'—just as he was often addressed in Ramakrishna's circle and later by Yogananda. Meetings with Ramakrishna [ ]. Mahendranath Gupta and other disciples and devotees of As an adult, Mahendranath, like some of the other disciples of Ramakrishna, was connected with the for several years.
Mahendranath had lost his mother at a very early age and was experiencing domestic friction in the joint family. As the friction within the joint family increased, Mahendranath decided to commit suicide. At this critical juncture, Mahendranath's nephew took him to the temple garden of, where, a mystic and the chief priest of the temple lived. It was here that Gupta met Ramakrishna for the first time and this meeting was a turning point in his life. Years later, when Mahendranath was asked about the greatest day in his life, he said, 'the day I had my first of Thakur [Ramakrishna] in February 1882.'
According to other traditional accounts, Mahendranath related that he may have met Ramakrishna for the first time when he was four years old and became separated from his mother while visiting the. He began crying, and a blissful and youthful man came up and consoled him. He believed it to be Ramakrishna, who was then a priest at the temple. Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita [ ]. Main article: M had the habit of maintaining a personal diary since the age of thirteen. M met Ramakrishna in 1882 and attracted by Ramakrishna's teachings, M started to maintain a record of Ramakrishna's conversations and actions in his diary, which finally took the form of a book.
Initially when M began writing the diaries, he had no plans of publication. Regarding his methodology M wrote, I wrote everything from memory after I returned home.
Sometimes I had to keep awake the whole night.Sometimes I would keep on writing the events of one sitting for seven days, recollect the songs that were sung, and the order in which they were sung, and the and so on.Many a time I did not feel satisfied with my description of the events; I would then immediately plunge myself in deep meditation.Then the correct image would arise.That is why in spite of the big gap in the physical sense, this story remains so fresh and lifelike in my mind as if it happened just now. In each of his Kathamrita entries, M records the date, time and place of the conversation. The title Kathamrita, literally 'nectarine words' was inspired by verse 10.31.9 from the text, the.
Both Ramakrishna's wife,, and later testified to Mahendranath's faithfulness to Ramakrishna's words. The first four volumes were published in 1902, 1904, 1908 and 1910 respectively and the fifth volume in 1932, delayed because of M's health problems. The Kathamrita contains the conversations of Ramakrishna from 19/26 February 1882 to 24 April 1886, during M's visits. The Kathamrita is regarded as a Bengali classic and revered among the followers as a sacred scripture. Famous translations of Kathamrita include works by (1942), and Dharma Pal Gupta. Teacher to Paramahansa Yogananda [ ], a 20th-century philosopher and a was a student of Mahendranath Gupta.
Mahendranath moved to 50 Amherst Street in Calcutta, where he ran a small boys' high school. It was also formerly Paramahansa Yogananda's family home—a site especially poignant to Yogananda because it was the site of his mother's death. In his Autobiography of a Yogi, dedicated an entire chapter to describing his friendship with Mahendranath, which was along spiritual rather than academic lines. Yogananda described Mahendranath as having a 'silky white beard and large lustrous eyes' and described his personality thus: His role in the world was humble, as befitted the greatest man of humility I ever knew. In this Amherst Street house, Master Mahasaya conducted a small high school for boys. No words of chastisement passed his lips; no rule and ferule maintained his discipline. Higher mathematics indeed were taught in these modest classrooms, and a chemistry of love absent from the textbooks.
He spread his wisdom by spiritual contagion rather than impermeable precept. Consumed by an unsophisticated passion for the Divine Mother, the saint no more demanded the outward forms of respect than a child. Yogananda went on to describe several seemingly miraculous experiences with Mahendranath. Later, Yogananda said about him that 'I would roll on the ground where he'd walked, so great was my love for him.
I felt that even that ground had been sanctified.' Later life and death [ ] In 1922, M. Lived in, a town 144 miles from Kolkata, for nine months.: 64 In 1932, when the fifth Volume of Kathamrita was at the printers Mahendranath died at his home, now called Kathamrita Bhavan, located near the in Calcutta. Kathamrita Bhavan is a pilgrimage place for followers of Ramakrishna due to numerous visits there by Ramakrishna and Sarada Devi, and several relics associated with their lives. References [ ].
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The title of this Post is a Misnomer in the sense that the do not belong to any particular Region or Language. I had provided the title to denote the Siddhas of the north of the Vindhyas(even here there are some from the South) Generally the name Siddha is associated with the South, more specifically Tamil. Sidhhas from the North seem to be following Patanjali, while in the south Agastya and Bhogar. Agastya seems to have been the first after Lord Shiva. One fact I have noticed is that Goraknath is found as a mentor of many a Siddhas from the North. There is a Gorakka Nathar among the Siddhas in the South. It is referred in Tamil texts that there are 1008 Siddhas.
Many in the North are not aware of the Siddhas of the South and the South of the North. This Post is to point out that all Siddhas belong to the Group of Realized Souls and we are not aware of it.
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