Siddh Boganatar lived in South India. Speaking about the life of the greatest of the Siddhas - Boganatar, one should first of all be based on the information that he himself revealed in his works, in particular, in "Bogar Jnana Sagaram" ("Oceanic history of life") and in "Bogar-7000", known as "Saptakandam".
Boganatar tells that he lived for thousands of years thanks to the use of the alchemical formula of restoration (kaya-kalpa) and special breathing techniques (pranayamas), traveled all over the world, and not only in the physical body, but also in the astral, and also by transferring consciousness to another physical body, witnessed the life of siddhas much older than himself and presented his disciples with the path to Liberation and transformation of human nature into divine one.
In Saptakandam, Boganatar says that he belongs to the line of Vishvakarma ("golden works of masters") in eighteen generations, however, in the works of Karuvurar, his disciple, one can find information that Boganatar originated from the pottery caste. In "Bogar Jnana Sagaram" (3, 4, 6) Boganatar says that thanks to the ability of clairvoyance (divya chakshus) he learned about his origin from Adi-siddha, i.e. from the Absolute, thus indicating their belonging to the lineage of hereditary siddhas.
Some sources (for example, Agastyar-12000) say that Boganatar was a Chinese, trained by Siddha Kalanga, who lived in China, who then came to India, bringing with him Chinese salts and chemicals (chinacharam).
However, Boganatar himself in the poem "Bogar Jnana Sagaram" speaks of himself as being born in Tamil Nadu, i.e. about Tamil.
Guru Boganatara - Kalangi Natar was born in the Indian city of Kashi (Benares). He reached the immortal state of soruba-samadhi at the age of three hundred and fifteen, after which China became the center of his activities as a spiritual mentor.
When Kalangi Natar decided to retire and immerse himself in samadhi for three thousand years, he telepathically summoned Boganatar from Tamil Nadu to China so that he could continue his mission. Boganatar went there along the sea trade route. In China, Kalangi Natar gave him instructions on all aspects of Siddha science, including the preparation and use of kaya kalpa preparations to achieve longevity.
After Kalangi Natar entered samadhi, Boganatar continued his educational mission among the Chinese. To facilitate this task (due to the difference in skin color and language), he carried out the transfer of his consciousness into the physical body of a deceased Chinese, and since then became known in China under the name Bo-Yang.
Bo-Young's name can be explained as follows. "Bo" is a derivative of the word "Gods" (Bhogam), meaning bliss. This bliss is experienced when the Kundalini Shakti (the primary female Yin energy) awakens and reaches the top of the head, the Sahasrara Chakra, where Shiva (the male principle of Yang) is located, and unites with him. The result of the fusion of Shiva and Shakti, Yin and Yang, is the experience of the state of Sat-chit-ananda (Absolute Being-Consciousness-Bliss).
To overcome the limitations of the aging body of the Chinese in which he was, Boganatar decided to use the methods of kaya kalpa. He gives a vivid description of the events that happened after he made a tablet from thirty-five different herbs:
“With great care and patience, I made the kaya-kalpa tablet and then swallowed it, ignoring the fools and skeptics who are unable to appreciate the secret meaning and significance of this remedy. And I lived in the land of parangs (foreigners) for twelve thousand years, my friend! I ate vital ojas, and from bindu I got the name Bogar. My body has taken on the golden color of the pill, and now I live in a golden world. "
Bogar Jnana Sutra (4)
There is an interesting parable about the effectiveness of the kaya kalpa tablet. Once Bogard, taking with him three of his best students and a faithful dog, went to the top of the mountain. First he gave the pill to the dog. She immediately dropped dead. Then he offered it to his eminent Chinese student named Yu (who according to one version is known by the Indian name Pulipani) - the same thing happened to him.
After that, he gave pills to two other students. By this time, they were already extremely frightened by what had happened, and did not eat them. Boganatar himself swallowed the remaining pills and fell unconscious. The disciples, sobbing, descended the mountain to bring everything they needed for the burial. When they returned to the place where they had left the bodies of the dead, they found only a note written in the hand of Boganatar, which read: “The kaya-kalpa tablets work. Coming out of the trance, I resurrected Yu and the dog. You have missed your chance to achieve immortality. "
Thus, with the help of the kaya kalpa, Boganatar was able to extend the life of his Chinese body by twelve thousand years, while the body acquired a radiant golden color during this time. However, the physiological transformation to the state of soruba-samadhi was completed by Boganatar later, in Palani, when he was practicing the last stages of Kundalini Yoga and related techniques.
Around 400 BC, at the end of his mission in China, Boganatar left this country along with his disciple Pulipani and other close disciples.
There is a point of view (expressed by M. Govindan) that Bo-Yang is Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism in China. It is based on the fact that the philosophy of Taoism speaks of physical immortality, which Bogard also writes about in his writings on yoga. Also, in Taoist literature it is said that at one of the border posts in the mountains, Han Ku Lao-Tzu, leaving China for India, at the request of the head of the border outpost wrote down the essence of his teaching in the form of two books: "Tao Ching", consisting of 37 verses , and "Te Ching" - of 42 verses. Practitioners of Taoist yoga today strive to achieve physical immortality. In doing so, they use techniques remarkably similar to those of the Tamil Siddhas.
On the way from China to India, Boganatar visited several temples in the Himalayas and the famous tantric temple of Kamarupa in Assam, dedicated to Shakti. At the foot of Mount Kailash, with the blessing of Shiva, he created his greatest work, consisting of 700,000 verses. It was later reduced to 7000 verses and is now known as Bogar Saptakandam. Then Boganatar visited Gaia, India and Arabia.
On his return to Tamil Nadu, he introduced the Chinese chemistry, which he named Chinacharam, in which, in particular, salts from China were used, and also introduced the manufacture of porcelain.
In Kurthrallam, he presented his manuscript of the Saptakandam, which consisted of 7,000 verses, for the consideration of Agastyar and the Siddha Academy. All of them highly appreciated this work. After that, many siddhis became his disciples and under his guidance began to study kaya kalpa and yoga. Subsequently, Boganatar turned his mission over to the mentor of Pulipani.
After performing tapas at Chaturagiri and Shivagiri, Boganatar went to Katirgama. There he continued tapas and won the favor of Murugan. At this place, Boganatar laid the famous yantra temple, symbolizing the sahasrara chakra, which opened in his Katirgama. Unlike other temples, it does not contain any sculptural images of God. Instead, Boganatar installed a mystical yantra (geometric pattern) carved on a gold plate: its form and mantric syllables, as it were, crystallize the image of the great Murugan. The plate with yantra is protected from the gaze of visitors, only the clergy of the temple have access to it.
Once a year, during a festival that usually falls at the end of July, the yantra is taken out of the temple and placed on the back of an elephant. During the procession, she is accompanied by priests and a huge crowd of believers. Boganatar has endowed this yantra with mystical power for the benefit of all those seeking Murugan's support. For centuries, the Katirgam temple has been the site of numerous miracles.
After Katirgama, he went to Mount Palani, which is now located near the southern tip of Tamil Nadu, where he practiced the final stage of his Kundalini Yoga sadhana. There, by the grace of the eternal youth Kumaraswamy (Lord Murugan), he attained the state of soruba-samadhi. He described his acquisition of soruba-samadhi in the poem "Bogar Jnana Sutra", after which he returned to Katirgama, where in about 211 AD. met with his disciple Babaji Nagaraj.
Later, at the end of the Six Dynasties (AD 220-590), Boganatar returned to China with several of his Tamil disciples. He entrusted his mission to Tamil Nadu to the siddha Pulipani.
Around 900 A.D. BC, during the construction of the Brihitishwara temple in Tanjavur (Tamil Nadu), Boganatar solved the problem of lifting an eight-ton stone slab to the very top of the temple, to a height of more than sixty meters. His advice was communicated through two mediums - Karuvurar and another Tamil student, and also in the form of notes delivered by pigeon mail. At the suggestion of Boganatar, a special inclined plane eight kilometers long was built, along which the stone was pulled up to the top of the temple. It was one of the most remarkable engineering decisions in the history of the world. At about the same time, Boganatar advised King Tanjavur to build a small temple next to this grand temple in honor of one of his greatest disciples, Karuvurar. This temple is still located on the territory of the Brhitishwara temple complex in Thanjavur.
There is information about Bogard's visit to South America. His journey there is confirmed by the notes left by the Chilean muikas: “Bocha, who gave the muikas the laws, was a white man with a beard and wore long robes. He amended the calendar, instituted holidays and after a while, like others, disappeared. "
The story is preserved that just before the beginning of Kali-yuga, about five thousand years ago, Boganatar convened a meeting of siddhas in order to outline the optimal path for the spiritual development of mankind during the approaching age of darkness. The preference was given to Bhakti Yoga - the yoga of love and devotion. The assembled siddhis instructed Boganatar to develop rituals for worshiping their beloved deity Palaniandavar (Lord Palani, i.e. Murugan), also called Baladandayuthapani.
Upon arrival in Palani, Boganatar saw something unusual: a white crow, a white elephant, a red crane and two hills - one emerald in color, the other ruby. The emerald hill was Shivagiri, the ruby one was Shaktigiri.
In Palani, Boganatar developed many rituals, among which the abhisheka (abhisheka) of the Palaniandavar sculpture with various compositions, including pancha-amrita made from five types of fruits and honey, became the central one. These rituals are performed to this day, thanks to the preserved Pulipani tradition.
The sculpture had to be made of a material that would survive throughout the Kali Yuga. The toughest known material, granite, wears out and cracks after several hundred such rituals. Therefore, Boganatar prepared a special composition of nine herbal and chemical ingredients (nava pashanam), which was stronger than granite. Eight of its constituent parts were mixed and poured into a mold, and then a ninth was added, which served as a hardener.
And to this day, the mystery of this sacred statue has not been solved. Modern scientists have tried to determine the composition of a small piece of material from which the sculpture is made, but did not have time to analyze it, because when heated, the piece instantly sublimated, and the composition of the material remained a mystery.
Doctor of Philosophy Ganapati T.N. in 2002 interviewed Palaniappa Pulipani, who lives in Palani. In it, Pulipani talks about the Pulipani tradition, saying that his ancestor Pulipani, from whom the tradition began, was not a Chinese siddha, but was born in Tamil Nadu. When he came to Boganatar with a request to take him as a disciple, Bogar answered him that he would do this only after he went around the whole world and returned safely. Then Pulipani sat on the tiger and traveled all over the world. He was instructed to perform pujas on the Dandayuthapani statue, and he carried water for the puja from the river, making a pot of water itself, inside which he carried water six times a day to the top of Palani Hill.
In "Saptakandam" Boganatar tells several parables about himself. Describing his state of samadhi, he says, "My mind has entered a vast expansion (vettaweli)." Having entered the state of samadhi, Bogar became like a stone statue. The lion and the lioness stopped at the place of Bogar's samadhi, thinking that it was made of stone. Here they hunted and produced offspring. Once, when the lion rested its head on the knees of a stone statue, licking it, tears from Bogar's eyes suddenly fell into the lion's mouth. Having tasted the siddha's tear, the lion gained wisdom and realized that this was not a statue, but a siddh in a state of samadhi. From that day on, the lion and his family began to pray and eat purely vegetarian food. When Bogar came out of samadhi, he asked the lion who he was. Leo told him that he and his family lived near Bogar, thinking that he was just a statue, and how, having tasted Bogard's tear, he gained wisdom. Hearing this, Bogar blessed the lion so that in his next birth he would become a king.
In another parable, he tells that at one time he lived on Mount Potkhigai, and one day he went to a nearby village, where the brahmanas chanted sacred mantras. Seeing Bogar, they asked him to leave so that he would not hear their mantras. Then, in order to teach the brahmanas a lesson, Bogar caught a cat and taught him these mantras, which the cat began to utter in a piercing voice. Realizing their mistake, the brahmanas on their knees began to ask Bogar for forgiveness. Then he forgave them and turned all their belongings into gold.
Also in "Saptakandam" Boganatar talks about his achievements and yogic abilities. He says that thanks to the siddhas, he can pinpoint the exact location of the treasures that are underground. In China, he described in detail how to properly construct a building where it is possible to gain the experience of communicating with departed souls in the flesh - as they were during their lifetime. However, later other siddhis condemned Bogar for revealing this secret and did not advise him to demonstrate the revival of the dead.
In "Saptakandam" Boganatar gave a description of the construction of a parachute for jumping from the top of a hill, there he also talks about his art of air flight, and how he flew to China on a device similar to an airplane.
Bogard also invented a steamer where, he said, many people could be. In addition, he speaks of a carriage capable of moving without the aid of a horse, i.e. on steam or gas, mentioning a moving carriage emitting smoke.
These stories of Bogard reveal the truth about his experiences, preceding the invention of the parachute, airplane, car and steamer thanks to his yogic abilities, indicate his application of a truly scientific approach (prakrta-siddhi).
