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1.
Questions & Answers
2.
Substance of a talk not given at Talking Stick 1994
3.
Bibliography
4.
Chapter from Brihad Nila Tantra on Kali
5.
Contacts
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Q:
What does Adinatha mean?
A:
The Sanskrit word Adinatha means 'Primordial Lord'. It is one of many subsects
of the heterodox Natha tradition.
The
Adinath Sampradaya is a tantrik sect of yogis affiliated with the greater Natha
tradition founded by Gorakhnath and Matsyendranath. These two individuals are revered by Tibetan Lamaism as
Mahasiddhas (great magicians) and credited with great powers.
According
to George Feuerstein's Textbook of Yoga (ISBN009-124030), "The natha
siddhas...deserve to be singled out for separate treatment by virtue of their
enormous influence on the development of yoga...the nathas have gone their own
ways and evolved many new, original theories and yogic techniques. These are
embodied in Hathayoga, also called hatha vidya or the 'science of force' which
is a direct continuation of the kaya sadhana of the earlier siddhas."
The
Nathas are connected with an earlier alchemical tradition known as Rasayana and
with the Siddhas and the Kapalikas. However, two figures stand out in the
history of the Nathas, Matsyendranath and Gorakhnath.
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Q:
Who was Matsyendranath?
A:
Matsyendranath (aka Macchagnanath) (circa 900 A.D.)
He
is associated with the foundation of the Kaula school of tantra. In a list of
the gurus associated with the worship (puja) of the Goddess Kali, his name,
along with his disciple Gorakhnatha, features prominently.
In
the Kaulajnananirnaya Tantra (characteristics of Kaula knowledge), the god
Shiva describes the self as one who is eternal, without decay and impurity. All
that is created comes through the three Shaktis (female energies) of Iccha
(Will), Jnana (Knowledge) and Kriya (Action). There are eight basic mantras and
these, through their combination, give birth to 64 Yoginis (female yogis),
which are in the eight chakras.
The
Natha, being free, may behave like a child, a madman, a king, a hero or a naked
person. He or she can do whatsoever is willed (Sveccha -- according to own
will). The root of freedom is the mantra Hamsa uttered 21600 times a day with
the breath.
In
Nepal, Matsyendranath is accorded great honour and identified with
Avalokiteshvara, seated on the Mount Potala. He is still to this day worshipped
as the Red Lokeshvara of Bugama. Said to have revealed the Kaula knowledge on
an island called Chandradvipa, he then imparted it to others at Kamarupa in
Assam.
The
Shabara Tantra describes him as one of the 12 Kapalika Gurus, renowned as a
knower of yoga. In the lists of the Siddhas of Tibetan Lamaism, Matsyendranath
is accorded first place.
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Q:
Who was Gorakhnatha?
A:
Gorakhnatha (aka Gorakshanatha)
Gorakhnath,
the disciple of Matsyendranath, is credited with the foundation of Laya or
Kundalini Yoga and Hatha Yoga. He is also revered by many of the Natha subsects
as their founder.
Such
sects are called Kanphata (split ear) after their initiation rite in which the
ear cartilage was cut to allow the insertion of large wooden rings.
Both
Gorakhnath and Matsyendranath are credited with fantastic powers and magical
ability. The Gurkhas, famed in battle for their heroism, worship Gorakhnath as
a god and he has many centres of worship in Nepal.
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Q:
Who was Dadaji?
A:
Mahendranath (aka Dadaji) 1911-1992
Mahendranath
(Dadaji), the 23rd Adiguru (chief guru) of the Adinathas, was born in London in
April 1911. From his early youth he had a deep interest in the spiritual
systems of the world and in his twenties knew Aleister Crowley, meeting him
after the infamous Justice Swift libel case.
Crowley
advised the young seeker to learn about the patterns of the East. But the
Spanish Civil War, in which Dadaji fought in the International Bridge, and then
the second world war, intervened.
It
was 1949 before he left the shores of Britain to arrive penniless in Bombay.
Here he was introduced to his guru in the Natha tradition and initiated as a
sadhu (holy man). A sadhu may make only three demands -- for shelter the shade
of a tree; for clothing rags and for food leftover scraps.
In
this the sadhus emulate the guru figure of all India, Dattatreya. He (see
below) is the legendary founder and guardian spirit of many if not most of the
Natha subsects.
For
the next 30 years Dadaji wandered south east Asia as a penniless sannyasi. His
travels took him to Bhutan where he received initiation as a lama of the
Kargyupta Sect; Malaysia, where he became a Taoist priest and studied the I
Ching; Ceylon where he was for a time a bhikkhu of Theravada Buddhism; and
Thailand where he lives as a hermit. He was also initiated into the Uttara
Kaula tantrik sect and the Sahajiya cult of Varanasi.
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Q:
Who is Dattatreya?
A:
The guru figure of India is Dattatreya and he is connected abidingly with the
origins of the Natha cults. He is, according to many Hindu sources, credited
the honour of founding Tantra.
Neither
Datta nor the Nathas were in any way thought of as orthodox according to the
Brahminical or Vedic ideologies. Dattatreya is often pictured naked, sitting in
embrace with a beautiful Shakti (female energy), drinking wine and eating hog's
flesh and dwelling in the centre of a cremation ground.
Often
Dattatreya is honoured through his padukas or sandals. He is said to have
achieved enlightenment under the tree called Udumbar. A set of 1000 names hymns
him as the Adinatha, the lord of Yoga and the lord of Nathas. He is always
portrayed naked and associated with the aboriginal and hill tribes. In the
Dattatreya Upanishad he is described as Madman, Child, Flesh Eater.
Dattatreya
is pictured with three heads representing the Hindu trinity of Brahma, Vishnu
and Shiva. He is always accompanied by one or more dogs.
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Q:
Do the Adinathas still exist?
A:
The Nathas is a living group and the Adinath tradition continues.
The
following is a statement from Lokanath Maharaj.
"I
was initiated into the Adinath Sampradaya at the spring equinox in 1978 by HH
Shri Gurudev Mahendranath (Dadaji), who bestowed on me the line of succession
(parampara) of that group. His guru was HH Shri Lokanath Maharaj of Uttara
Kashi (Himachel Pradesh).
"Dadaji
was keen that the wisdom of the Nathas should have wider exposure than just the
subcontinent of India and when I returned to the UK from India I initiated
several people as Adinathas.
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Q:
What is AMOOKOS
A:
AMOOKOS stands for the Arcane Magical Order of the Knights of Shambhala.
Lokanath Maharaj started this organisation in 1982.
Dadaji
came to London in 1981 and stayed with an Indian family for about 18 months.
During this period he encouraged me to compile some grade papers for an
organisation which would act as a training ground for would-be magicians.
These
papers, which Lokanath wrote and which Dadaji read and gave his enthusiastic
support to, became the basis for the group called the Arcane Magical Order of
the Knights of Shambhala (AMOOKOS).
Subsequently
some were published in Mandrake's book, "AMOOKOS Magick" which I
wrote. Over the next four or five
years, international membership of AMOOKOS grew to over 200 individuals, with
several chartered to start lodges of their own. Although structured in nine
"degrees", in reality the grade papers extended only up to the fifth
degree.
One
prominent member of AMOOKOS was Donald Michael Kraig, who ran a lodge in
California in the 1980s.
The
material published in AMOOKOS Magick was originally presented to individuals
for training purposes. Much of the material is tantrik but presented in the
English language for clarity and to avoid Indian words and jargon.
After
people had successfully completed three of the degrees, I felt the individuals
could discard the paraphernalia. Every individual who was initiated also became
an initiate of the Adinatha sect.
Anyone
duly initiated into AMOOKOS in the past is a fully fledged Natha and she or he
has the right to think for herself or himself. In our group we had a wide cross
spectrum of people with varied and different interests. It was my hope that
sufficient people would work on themselves and, in due course, cause the
flowering of different schools, each perhaps differing in their aims and
approaches but still working towards the same goals.
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Q:
What is initiation?
A:
If anyone seeks initiation as a Natha, there are plenty of individuals who can
bestow it. Initiation, of itself,
doesn't
in our view, mean anything. Unless people make conscious efforts to fight their
own conditioning and to wake up, the Natha view is that the initiation, by
itself, is meaningless.
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Q:
What are the aims of the Adinathas?
A:
The Kularnava Tantra, one of the highest and best of all the tantrik texts,
makes this clear.
"Old
age prowls like a tiger; age diminishes like water in a broken pot. So as long
as this body exists, a person should earnestly devote himself towards the
exploration of the ultimate truth."
"In
the various worldly pursuits, time flies unnoticed. Involved in his pleasures
and his pains, the individual
remains
unaware of his self interests."
"This
world plunged as it is in the fathomless ocean of time, an individual does not
recognise the lurking crocodiles of death, disease and old age."
"Therefore
do today what is required to be done tomorrow. Do in the morning what is meant
to be done in the afternoon, because death waits not to see what is done or not
done."
"If
people could get liberated by smearing themselves with dust and ashes, are all
the country folk, who live amidst dust and ashes liberated?"
"Goddess,
parrots and mynah birds recite before people sacred words with delight. Are
they to be regarded as great scholars from such talk?"
"Animals
like pigs bear the winter cold and summer heat and for them food fit or unfit
is alike, are they Yogis thereby?"
"Lady
of the clans, such privations and self denials are only for deceiving the world
while direct knowledge of truth alone is the means for liberation."
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Q:
What do the Adinathas believe?
A:
The Nathas aim to know, rather than to believe. Within every man and woman is
the hidden but radiant and self shining being. To call it by any name is to
lessen it.
A
human being is already accomplished, a yogi or yogini. It is conditioning and
other factors which prevent this from shining forth.
The
Nathas are yogis and yoginis. In each individual Shiva and Shakti co-exist in
equipoise. When they unite, the resulting bliss lights up the
physio-psychological complex which is the Universe.
Much
of the alchemy the Nathas used was based on the proposition that Breath is
Time. According to the Nathas, a human being breathes 21,600 times during a 24
hour day. Half of these breaths are Sun
(Shiva) breaths and half are Moon (Shakti) breaths. The outbreathing is Ha and
the inbreathing Sa. This is the so-called involuntary mantra HamSah. One who
has united the Solar and Lunar breaths is a Paramahamsa (beyond Hamsa).
These
21600 breaths are also related to the 21600 seconds of the zodiac arc. The
breath is affected by time and by various cosmic phenomena, inherent at breath.
This is the Kalachakra or wheel of Time. The Natha aims to fight conditioning
and to become free from Time.
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Q:
What is Svecchacharya?
A:
It's a Sanskrit compound word which means the path of acting according to one's
own will -- in other words independently.
According
to Natha teaching, a human being has three energies or Shaktis called Iccha
(Will), Jnana (Knowledge) and Kriya (Action). When these function together a
person has full access to all other energies and is the Fourth.
This
is sometimes symbolised by a downward pointing triangle with a dot in the
centre.
"Meditate
in your heart lotus that in the centre of the ocean of nectar is a raised
island. In the woodland of Aeon trees there is a beautiful canopy made of nine
rubies. Under it is a throne fashioned from nine jewels. On that throne, on a
triangular seat within a lotus is Lord Shiva and Goddess Ambika ornamented with
the Moon and the Sun forming one half of his body. Beautiful as 10s of millions
of gods of love, and young as a sixteen year old, She-He smiles. He-She wears
celestial clothes, ornaments and garlands of flowers and Her-His body is
smeared with sandal paste. She-He has 3 eyes and is always blissful"
(Kularnava Tantra pp85-86)
Lokanatha
Maharaj
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Substance
of talk Mike Magee never got round to making, because of sickness, at the
Talking Stick conference, London 1994
I
founded AMOOKOS in 1982 and I'm billed today as speaking about it. But I'd like
to go a bit further back than that because AMOOKOS, which stands for the Arcane
Magical Order of the Knights of Shambhala, originated from simple minded people
called the Nathas.
It's
completely impossible to understand AMOOKOS unless you go to the fountain which
gave birth to it -- this ancient and straightforward cult called the Nathas.
You
can tell how simple minded they were because the founder of the group, born in
around 900AD in Bengal, was a fisherman. And his disciple was a street cleaner.
Other prominent members were water carriers. Class prejudice never had a part
in the tradition -- all, whatever colour, sex or class -- were considered
equal.
Yet
founded 1000 years ago, apparently in Bengal, their attitude to life influenced
major religious movements including Sikhism, followers of Vishnu and many other
clans throughout the subcontinent.
The
Nathas, despite these religious affiliations, were, above all, yogis and
yoginis. They have a vast literature and their original ideas were borrowed by
many other religious cults.
Despite
this, the Naths -- rather refreshingly -- had a simple approach to life. For
example, they fomented the 1st Indian War of Independence which the British Raj
dubbed the Indian Mutiny. That was in 1857. A whole 150 years or so later, not
that much has changed in the world.
Part of their tradition was to feed the needy and they had monasteries
which distributed food daily to the poor.
According
to the primary text of the Fisher Nath, the Kaula Jnana Nirnaya
(Characteristics of Kaula Knowledge) a human being has characteristics which
cannot be removed from him or her -- despite the conditioning human society
places on people. Bhairava -- another name for the male aspect Shiva --is
talking to Bhairavi -- another name for the female Shakti.
She
asks him, in common language, what life is really all about. How, for example,
does a human being arise, she says. What is its real nature? What is its colour
and where does it live?
Shiva
answers in a strange way. He says a human being is supreme, whole, eternal, and
stainless. He says a person is the ultimate atomic particle. He says a human
being is the breath, the mind, and the intellect. In short, he ends, it's
everything.
It
relates to shamanism and to every other manifestation of freedom which has ever
shown itself on the face of our little corner of the universe.
Shakti
gets a bit cheesed off listening to Shiva talking after a while and says there
are three kinds of Shaktis. She, she says, is all three. These three kinds, we learn from her, relate
to the Moon, to the Sun and to the mixture of both Moon and Sun.
She,
however, describes herself as the Flier in Space, the Khagaja. She is crystal
in colour, wears pearls and has a white mark on her forehead. She can go
wheresoever she pleases and do whatsoever she wills by the power of will.
Shiva,
it seems, has similar characteristics. He is a white mound of ash, he is the
crystal light which permeates the universe, he has no qualities but at the same
time has all qualities.
What
about the path of doing things according to one's own Will? It turns out that
both Shakti and Shiva have strong opinions about this.
One
should abandon duality, they think. Whosoever is always non dual knows success.
Shakti says that the perfect way to be is to be yourself. Surprisingly, for a
man, Shiva agrees.
Tha
Nathas loved red. The reason? Well both magicians and magicianesses, according
to the text, are very pleased with the colour red. They seem to like blood.
In
fact red is style with the Nathas and the members of AMOOKOS. Although there
are no rules about diet in AMOOKOS nor in the Natha tradition, apparently
eating anything is OK.
The
best food, the Nathas say, is eaten out of the skull of a Brahmin. Once you've
eaten that, you can throw all sorts of salad dishes into the middle of the
skull and scoff it with a thighbone spoon.
So
what happens if you become a person in whom Shiva and Shatki are unified? The
many answers from the Fisher Nath appear to suggest that too many miracles to
speak of are the result.
You
can see at a distance. You can hear at a distance. You conquer old age. Any
wrinkles you might have
disappear
almost immediately you concentrate hard on the milk white ocean which nourishes
you.
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Translation
of chapter 13 of the Brihad Nila Tantra, dealing specifically with the worship
(puja) of Mahakali.
It
covers meditation and the vira sadhana (heroic worship) of Mahakali. It also
outlines the principles of Svecchacharya (the path of acting according to one's
will) which is central to the Kaula school of tantra.
On
Kali (Brihadnila Tantra 13)
Sri
Bhairava said: Now I speak of the supreme mantra of Mahakali, bestowing all poesy. Listen attentively, O
Maheshani. She is the primordial one, Prakriti, the beautiful woman, the
primordial knower, with kalas, the Fourth, the ultimate mother, the boon giver,
the desirable one, the lady of heroes, the giver of success to sadhakas.
She,
the primordial one, Mahaprakriti, Kali, the true form of time, whose great
mantra of all mantras is the ocean of mantra, she alone gives all success to a
sadhaka who wants it. The destroyer of anxiety, giving boons, seated on a
corpse, gives all desires, O Devi, and creates all marvels. In this matter, purification of mind and
determination as to defects or enmity in a mantra are unnecessary. In sadhana
with this great mantra, there are no restrictions as to time, nor day, lunar
mansion or obstacles caused by lunar mansions and so forth. Nor in Mahakali's
sadhana is it necessary to consider guru.
Listen,
Vararoha, to the all-poesy bestowing mantra. Two Hrims and two Hums, followed
by three Krims and Dakshine Kalike, then pronouncing the previous bija mantras
in reverse order, putting in front of it Om and Svaha last, is the mantra of
twenty three syllables, the ultimately beautiful mantra. Using this king of
mantras causes a person to become like Shiva, there is no doubt of it. Bhairava is the rishi of the mantra, Ushnik
is the metre, Mahakali is the Devi and Hrim is the seed. Hum is the Shakti and
its application is well known. Vararohe, listen to the meditation. Reciting it
gives siddhi, its practice gives the power of attraction, and it causes pashus
to become viras.
I
worship the greatly beautiful one, with limbs the colour of thunderclouds, who
is naked and sits on the corpse of Shiva, who has three eyes and earrings made
of the bones of two young handsome boys, who is garlanded with skulls and
flowers. In her lower left and upper right hands she holds a man's head and a
sword, her other two hands bestowing boons and banishing fear. Her hair is
greatly dishevelled. Using this meditation, worship and satisfy the
Paramesvari.
Listen,
beauteous one, to the Gayatri, which gives all knowledge when recited. Saying
Kalikayai and vidmahe, then say shmashanavasinyai dhimahi, and then tanno ghore
pracodayat. Devi, after reciting it twenty times, it is the giver of all
prosperity. Recite it 20,000 times to achieve success in its preparation. Do
homa of a tenth part, oblation of a tenth part of that, and abhiseka of a tenth
part of that. Then feed Brahmanas. Do everything necessary within the sadhana,
then dismiss Devi and throw the pot into water.
I
speak now of the great ritual which bestows both the visible and the invisible.
Mantras become successful using this rite, which is to be performed in the
first or third watch at night, and are powerless otherwise.O Mahesvari, do vira
sadhana in a house, or elsewhere on earth. Make a small platform strewn with
bunches of plantain leaves and place on this a pot smeared with vermilion. In
the pot place mango shoots and wine made of khadira blossoms, as well as
asvattha and badari leaves. Also place in the pot pearl, gold, silver, coral
and crystal and then strive to accomplish vira sadhana.
Draw
a matrika cakra, placing the pot on top of it. A mantrin should put it on a
cloth, facing the northern direction. After worshipping with various
substances, one should offer food, unguent, mutton and the most attractive
sorts of food. Then, O Devi, offer curd to the great goddess.
Have
there a young and beautiful girl, adorned with various jewels. After combing
her hair, give her tambula and draw two Hrims on her breasts, Aim on or near
her mouth, and draw two Klims on either side of her yoni. Drawing her towards
you by her hair, caress her breasts and then place the linga into her yoni pot,
O pure smiling one. Recite the mantra 1,000 times, O sweet faced one. Dearest,
one becomes accomplished by doing the rite for a week. Maheshani, recite the
mantra not in the manner written of in books, but in her yoni. This brings
mantra siddhi, there is no doubt of it.
So, Devi, the secret thing giving all desires has been declared to you.
One should not reveal it, one should never reveal it, Maheshani.
O
Naganandini, at the risk of your life, never reveal it. It is the giver of all
siddhi. I cannot speak of the magnificence of this mantra. Had I ten thousand
million mouths and ten thousand million tongues, I could still not speak of it,
O Paramesvari.
It
is the most secret thing in the three worlds, very hard to obtain, the great
pitha Kamarupa, giving the fruit of all desires. Maheshani, reciting in this
way gives endless fruit, if, by the power of good fortune one attains this
pitha. O Maheshani, after reciting the
mantra there, it gives endless fruit. Bhairavi, siddhi resides in that high
place (described in) this tantra, without doubt.
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