Who are the Siddhars?
The Siddhars are enlightened
beings who journey beyond enlightenment. "Siddhi" means, powers of
perfection, ie, miracles. "Siddhars" are the perfected beings.The Tamil Siddhar Sages broke
away from organized religion and social dogma. They lived by experience of
the divine, throwing away belief systems.
Like in most religions there are
the deeper end facets to it, like the Kabbalah of Judaism or Sufism of
Islam, the path of the Siddhars is the deeper end of Hinduism.The Siddhars worship the Divine
as in its Universal form and formlessness and in most cases, as the flame of
a lamp.
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What do Siddhars have to do with
yoga?
When awakened, the Soul feels
like an elephant in a hut like body. In most instances, the awakened persons
consider the body a baggage or shirt to carry along and wear. The Siddhar
Sages however realize that human life has a divine purpose- the purpose to
evolve. They consider the body a shrine to the Divinity within. Utilizing
the ancient yogic science, they developed the yoga practice to enable
transcend body limitations. The diluted versions of their yoga practice has
been absorbed by the mainstream India. It can be said that the Siddhar Sages
are the source of yoga science.
What is Kalangi
Yoga-
If hatha yoga is for example, a
computer, Turiya yoga is the software within it. Turiya yoga is the pure
form of yogic practice of the Sages who transcend the body to be Spirit.
Do you teach?
Yes. Kalangi Yoga is a deep and
intense yogic practice.
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What is your your background?
Where are you from? What is your yoga experience? What brought you to the
West?
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How is Kalangi Yoga different from other forms of yoga?
There are two Indias- the India we know
about and the India we do not know about. The India we know about is the
traditional society that had the brahmanical component of a caste based
society that held knowledge that was passed on for thousands of years. Most
yoga practice currently in the West is from this India.
There is the other India which is the mystical component of yoga traditions
outside the caste and social norms. These were Sages of just about any
caste waking up to enlightenment and the journey to light and connecting
with the ancient traditions of the Siddhars.
This secretive wisdom was
rarely known outside the initiate circle.
Kalangi Turiya Yoga utilizes many in-depth 'knowing' of this ancient
lineage that transforms the body and mind and enables the yogi to bring the
divine energies of perfection into the human realms of daily life.
What is
your religion?
Prefer Mahatma Gandhi's wonderful quote, "Religions
are different roads converging on the same point. What
does it matter that we take different roads so long as
we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of
the world are true more or less. I say "more or less"
because I believe that everything the human hand
touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings
are imperfect, becomes imperfect." Having quoted
this, however, it would not be easy to say this if i
were not a Hindu.
Actually the
best definition of our yoga spirituality is Sanathana
Dharma- The Eternal Truth that is from deep silence
within. As Swami Vivekananda said "Each soul is
potentially Divine. The goal is to manifest this
divinity within, by controlling nature, external and
internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic
control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of
these - and be free. This is the whole of religion.
Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples,
or forms are but secondary details"
Sensitive
Planet-