{"id":757,"date":"2022-10-20T13:53:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T08:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.creativethemes.com\/blocksy\/persona\/?p=757"},"modified":"2023-04-01T19:08:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T13:38:03","slug":"matsyendr-nath-my-great-grand-guru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaulbhaskar.com\/matsyendr-nath-my-great-grand-guru\/","title":{"rendered":"Matsyendra Nath – My Great Grand Guru"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Matsyendra Nath – 7th Century CE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a legend of the Naths that, one day as the great yogi sat fishing in his boat in the Bay of Bengal, he hooked a huge fish that pulled so hard on his fishing line that his boat capsized and the whale swallowed him whole. This is similar to the biblical story of Jonah in the stomach of a whale. In this story, Matsyendra Nath was protected by his good karma. At that time Lord Shiva had created a beautiful setting under the ocean. He was expounding to his spouse, Parvati, the sacred doctrine of Yoga and Tantra, which he had never given to anyone else. The large fish happened to go to this very site.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it came to pass that the Nath was able to hear the secret discourse which Shiva gave to Parvati, without being noticed. After some time Parvati fell asleep, and when Shiva asked, \u201cAre you listening?\u201d a prompt \u201cYes!\u201d came from the belly of the fish. Using his Shiva Netra (third-eye), Shiva gazed into the belly of the fish, where he saw Mina Nath (another of Matsyendra\u2019s Nath\u2019s many names). He was overjoyed at the discovery and said, \u201cNow i know who my real disciple is.\u201d Turning to his sleepy spouse He said, \u201cI will now first initiate Matsyendra Nath,\u201d who gratefully took the initiation and then for the next 12 years, all the while remaining in the belly of the fish, dedicated himself to the tantra yogic practices given to him by the Lord Shiva himself. At the end of the 12 years, another fisherman caught the monster, and upon opening it, Matsyendra Nath appeared as a fully realized Master.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matsyendra Nath is responsible for the transmigration of all evolving souls. In his hands are the keys to the gates of salvation (moksha). He gives liberation to the deserving and bondage to fools. He is the immortal master of Hatha and Tantra Yoga. His deva celestial form is called Avalokiteshwara, which means, \u201cThe Lord Who Looks Down from on High.\u201d In Tibet, he is the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshwara who gave to humanity the liberating mantra, \u201cOm mani padme hum.\u201d In Nepal, he is venerated as the guardian deity of Kathmandu in the form of Shveta Matsyendra (White Fish Lord). In India, he is Nath Matsyendra, celebrated in song and legend as the saviour and spiritual redeemer of all the Nath Yogis. In Maharashtra, India he is worshipped as Vithoba (Panduranga) with fish earrings.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has a Shivalinga on his head. This is the mystic connection between Vithoba Krishna and Shiva Goraksha. In his Tantra Aloka, the great Abhinav Gupta salutes Matsyendra Nath as his Guru. The book called Kaulu-Jnana-Nirnaya, meaning \u201cascertainment of Kaula Knowledge,\u201d was authored by Matsyendra Nath around the 10th century and is one of the oldest available sources of information about Kaulism.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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