Amarakavi Siddeswara and the mighty 18 Siddhas

Amarakavi Siddeswara and the mighty 18 Siddhas

Amarakavi Siddeswara was a born Siddha.  His mother conceived in January 1906 at a small village called Tiruvottiyur at Madras in Tamilnadu state of south India.   It is a very holy place even today as the place is credited with Jiva Samadhi of the great Tamil Saint Pattinathu Adigal.  On the very day of conception, Amarakavi’s father had a dharsan of a divine glow from earth to sky at Tiruvottiyur and cognized that the child in the womb was not a mere mortal but a divine soul with extreme grace of saint Pattinathar.  This fact became true with the life history of Amarakavi who had met all Siddhas and Maharishis of yore during his penance and spiritual practice. 

Siddhas in reality:

 Human birth is a gift of God.  Man alone can realize God in “nature” and within himself though animals are endowed with special powers.  Here the word “Nature” does not mean creations like plants, Trees, mountains, rivers, oceans, five elements and cosmos but the primordial energy that activates and underlies their existence.  The same nature is the causal force of our body motion and other functional sides of human system like faculties and activities psychological and para-psychological.

Nature stands in the way of God-realization in terms of his physical and mental configurations leading to sensuous and mental outward dispositions. The challenge with man in his task here is to tame his mind and turn it inward of itself. The role of human thought and Breathing in this negative disposition of nature is astounding and alarming. Thus chief areas of human faculties trapping the man totally and preventing him from realizing his own soul or God are 1. Breathing 2. Thought 3.Speech (open and silent).  The task of yoga is to arrest all these three traps of nature in an integral fashion so that the self-consummative success in terms of Brahma Nishtai could be achieved.  Direct communion with God is possible only in Brahma Nishtai as with Amarakavi Siddeswara and the mighty 18 Siddhas of yore.

Breathing: Saint Patanjali brought forth the art of Ashtanga Yoga where the preliminary exercises center around taming of breathing to the point where one can have control of sensuous rove to leap into higher dimension of human nature in general. This hata yoga could not succeed in the matter of God-realization therefore mere Breath control could result only in bodily strength and could not lead anyone to Brahma Nishtai.

Thought: Then, the ancient aspirants engaged in the task of self-realization resorted to ways of silencing thought to the core. It is unfortunate that this method also led only to Samadhi where one is marooned in the seize of cosmic bliss waves with no access to listen to the word of God emanating from within as revelations. Thus they could not touch Brahma Nishta by arresting thought alone.

Speech: (Open and silent) Speech is a faculty as well as gift of God exclusive with man in creation.  Animals cannot speak but they are compensated with extra powers and faculties.  Therefore maharishis of yore made a research over ‘sound’ and ‘human speech’.  They found that speech, more than breath and thought, if tamed and silenced can result in communion with the divine.  As a result they were guided by the divine with the knowledge of sound and accordingly mantras and syllables of mantras were understood by the maharishis.  On this line Sri Adhi Sankara’s Soundarya Lahiri is a treatise on sound and mantras prescribed for the worship of the Goddess Sakthi, the primordial energy of cosmos known as Vaalai or Bala in various forms of worship. 

Therefore it became clear to the maharishis that the ultimate aim of any yoga must be communion with God, revelations in Brahma Nishta and above all success in touching any one of the four popular signpost of Brahma Nishta called Saalokam, Saameepaam, saarupam, and Saayujyam etc.  this is called self-consummation with the divine as experienced by Amarakavi Siddeswara on par with the mighty 18 Siddhas.  It is pleasing to mention here that Amarakavi Siddeswara was guided, tutored and initiated into the peaks of integral yoga (yoga of a super blend of breathing + thought + speech) by the saint Agastiya, the mightiest among the 18 Siddhas of yore.

Integral yoga of Amarakavi

a)    Amarakavi and Breathing

b)    Amarakavi and Thought

c)    Amarakavi and Speech

Amarakavi and Breathing           

As per yogic texts, there are varieties of breathing standard such as 4”, 8”, 12”, 16”, 18”, 20” MPs according to his mental and physical conditions, such as waking state, dream state, sleep state and yogic conditions.  Out of many siddhies connected with breathing the maharishis of yore were credited with super divine breathing standards called double breathing (Kevala Kumbhakam) erect breathing, stable breathing and virgin breathing.  Amarakavi siddeswara was also the recipient of these coveted gifts of God during his Tapas.

Amarakavi and Thought

Control of thought is a must in yoga to touch higher dimensions of life.  The middle ages went to the extreme of thought control and got marooned in bliss waves unable to regain consciousness.  Total arrest of thought leads to a state of human existence medically called ‘Coma’ and this state is not useful for divine revelations or communication with the divine.  What is required in yoga is not thoughtless state but ‘thought-free silence’ in terms of Amarakavi Siddeswara’s self-experience with the divine in Brahma Nishta.  In Thought-free silence, thought is there but in divinized form totally away from sensuous or outward disposition of human nature.  It is a state beyond ‘Thuriya’ (Fourth Dimension of human nature) Even the Trinities (Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra) are at the end of Thuriya short of the state called Thuriya Atheetham where man and the God become one in terms of advaitic wrap.  Amarakavi is one in Thuriya Atheetham on par with the Saint Agastiya the chief of Siddha world. 

Amarakavi and Speech

Man can never realize God or communion with Him in Brahma Nishta unless he has successfully tamed his faculty of speech both open and silent.  More than thought and breathing it is human speech which has to be tamed, trapped and totally suppressed to the core.  Amarakavi’s super theory that ‘Speech is God’ is fully based on this truth.   Maharishis of yore discovered with divine help many mantras for this purpose, the chief and popular among them being shodasa maha mantra, with which man can arrest speech and breathing at a single stroke and succeed in Integral Yoga as with Amarakavi.  Thus Amarakavi arrested speech to the core and touched lofty peaks of Tapas for direct communion with God under the spell of maha shodasa mantra siddhi.  It is at this stage he was amply and suitable guided and initiated into super Sri Vidya technics by saint Agastiya.  Thus Amarakavi was very close to saint Agastiya, the chief of Siddhas and equal to Lord Parameswara in all respects.

Super saints /Siddhas met by Amarakavi in Brahma Nishta

Saivic saints

1.    Tirumoolur : He was one of the disciples of Nandegeswarar, the right-hand of Lord Parameswara.  After completion of his course under the leadership of sri nandegeswarar he came down to South India to meet and get the blessings of Saint Agastiya at Pothigai malai in Tirunelveli district.  The famous saivic treatise written by Tirumoolar is Tirumandiram which is exhaustive and illuminating.  Tirumandiram is written in the form of poems of four lines each depicting the entire configuration of human system both physical and astral and explains the way-out of nature power underlying mental, physical, psychological and para pshychological activities of human faculties.  It is pleasing to mention that Amarakavi had the dharsan of Tirumoolar many a time and got his blessings.  Tirumoolar had also predicted that Amarakavi would be graced with divine revelations in Brahma Nishta whereby his divine titles in prose order to suit the modern scientific world would emerge and enchant the world at large with divine gospels in Kali yuga.  Accordingly amarakavi’s Tapas developed by leaps and bounds with the result God revealed to him all cosmic secrets required for human evolution in the physical.  Though Amarakavi’s mother tongue was Telegu, it is a wonder that the divine revelations of about 20,000 pages came to him one in Tamil at the beginning stage.  He condensed them to a few books of about 5000 pages containing the rudiments of Indian mysticism meant for self/ god realization.  Then Amarakavi placed an appeal before Lord Mula Ganapathy for English version of divine revelations in future.  Immediately Lord Mula Ganapathy was pleased and promised for the same from the next day itself.  Then divine revelations in Brahma Nishta came in floods for about twenty five years containing about a lakh of papers which were condensed by Amarakavi and made out in number of volumes.  Out of this divine treasure he published two English books titled 1. Nija Anana Bhodham 2. The Secret of Tapas and authorized his two assistants mr. V.R. Vijayakumar (Vibhuthi Adigal) and mr. M.S.Sukumar (Prabhodaran) to publish any / all his works after his life time.  Accordingly mr. Sukumar created Hayagreeva Publication wherein Mr. V.R Vijayakumar is rendering his honorary service as the chief editor with his first-hand experience and association with Amarakavi for over thirty years right from his boyhood.  m/s Hayagreeva Publication (108 /176 Big Street, Triplicane, Chennai 600 005 India contact No.098409 17127 & 044 28444275) has to its credit ten Tamil titles and nine English titles published recently with Amarakavi’s material. 

2.    Saint Agastiya

It is soul-stirring that Amarakavi has revealed the fact that saint Agastiya, the leader of Siddhas is equal to Lord Parameshwara by all virtues.  It is saint Agastiya who assisted Amarakavi with extreme grace during his progress towards reaching Thuriya atheetha state where communion with God and award of divine revelations in Brahma Nishta fructified.  In a word, the status of Amarakavi’s Tapas can be explained as follows:

During the moments of getting divine revelations, Amarakavi  found himself in the state of Agastiya and came down to human level to make a record of it.  Thus Amarakavi’s state of tapas and that of saint Agastiya is one and the same with the only difference that Amarakavi was momentarily charged with the glory of that spiritual status whereas saint Agastiya is fully and permanently established there round the clock.  Thus Amarakavi used to express his gratitude and respect to saint Agastiya for all his kindness and care for the former.

Other siddhas in contact with Amarakavi

Amarakavi had dharsan of many siddhas and deities as may be found below:

During his life time he mentioned about dharsans and spiritual experiences with many great saints / souls such as

Siddhas: Agastiyar, Bogar, Tirumoolar, Ettakad Siddhar, Pambatti Siddhar, Agapayai Siddhar, Konganar, Karuvoorar, Korrakar, Azugani, Sivavakkiyar, Pathanjli, Dhanvantri, Sattaimuni, Kudambai. Machamuni, Roma rishi, Pattinathar, Arunagirinathar, Tamil lady saint Oovaiyar, Nakkeerar, saint vadalur Ramalinga Adigal,

Great souls:

Sri Adhi Sankara, Saint Nammalvar (Sadagopan), Nehrur Sri Sadasiva Brahmam, Sri Ramana, H.H. Sri Chanderaseakera Bharathi of Sringeri mutt, Saint Aurobindo of Pondicherry, Saint Ramakrishna Paramahamsar, Saint Ragavendra, Saint Bhodenthirar, Saint Thiagaiyar,

Male Deities in vision:

Sri Mula Ganapathy, Sri Lord Parameswara, Lord Sriman Narayana  (Virat Swaroopa), Lord Narashimam, Lord Anjeneya, Lord Subramniya Swami, Lord Vishnu (Virat Swaroopa) Lord Brahma - the creator, Lord Rudra, Garuda, Nandigeswara,

Female deities in vision:

Sri Mahalakshmi, Sri Sarawathi,  Sri Kamakshi, Sri Durga, Sri Saradambal of Sringeri, Sri Meenakshi of Madurai, Sri Brahgadambal of Pudukottai – (amarakavi’s birth place), sri Varaghee.

Amarakavi and spiritual visions

Even as a boy of ten Amarakavi experienced Brahma Nishtai.  It is a wonder that such a great soul in the pinnacle of Tapas lived as a simple man and retired as cost accountant from m/s Burmah shell, Madras in the year 1960 without revealing his spiritual experiences or attainments to anybody in the office. 

He used to reveal that he had been practising worship of Mula Ganapathy, Integral Yoga and meditation for the past seven Janmas.  In fact it is interesting to note that God showed him the places at Banaras in North India where he lived and practised during his previous birth. 

Dreams/Divine Visions

Man experiences three states of existence – 1. Waking State 2. Dream State 3.Sleep State.  As you all know, in the waking state man is susceptible to sensuous perception, thought motion/rove, mental distractions, and above all poor breathing standard underlying emenations and rove of thought motion.  The purpose of yoga is to arrest the motion of thought, breathing, and speech.  Breathing and thought motion in a man is the product and effect of his past karma.  More over breathing is an act of God according his karmic theory.  Therefore we have no right to meddle with it in yoga.  Thought and breathing are the two wings of the same bird.  If one is arrested, the other will automatically lapse in return.  Thus meditation for refining thought in yoga was prescribed by the maharishis of yore.  Along side speech (open and silent) should also be contained to the core for self-consummation with the divine.  Amarakavi was well established in self-consummation through Integral Yoga of breathing, thought, and speech in special blend, a technique known only of Maharishis of yore in timeless tradition.  Thus Amarakavi attained thuriya state and its beyond on par with saint Agastiya.  The state of Thuriya, according to yogic texts and in the words of Tamil Lady saint Oovaiyar, is nothing but the transplant of our physical and mental condition in dream state into the waking state.  Therefore it is clear that in Thuriya a man finds himself in dream state amidst waking state itself.  It is easier said than done.  If the condition of sleep state is transplanted into your waking state it means nothing but thuriya aatheetham where one finds himself always in the presence of God – a super state called Saamipam. 

Dreams of ordinary man emanate from his past and present memories in karma theory.  They are all dreams and not visions.  Visions, on the other hand, are given by God to the choicest aspirants like Amarakavi at a stage short of Thuriya.  In fact Amarakavi experienced only spiritual dreams during his life time.  The number of such dreams experienced by him under divine grace will be around 2000. It is surprising to note that some of his dreams continued like a serial for many days starting from where it ended on the previous day.  In the circumstance it is to be stated that whereas he attained Thuriya state (the fourth dimension of human existence) in the year 1967, he had some 108 cosmic visions in the form of spiritual  dreams explained by the Divine.  Also God requested Amarakavi to publish them in the form of book for the humanity to understand the areas of mysticism according to Siddhas.  Amarakavi in turn instructed us  to publish a book of his spiritual dreams after 2010.  Accordingly the dream book with pictures of Amarakavi’s dreams along with commentary has been released at madras in May 2012 and the Siddha Art and Paintings function of Amarakavi’s dream was headed by Honb’le Justice P Jothimani of Madras High Court.  The same portraits of Amarakavi’s cosmic visions is now being exhibited now at Fifth World Conference on Siddhar Principles 2012 at Johor Malaysia for good of all participants and the humanity as a whole.  May the visitors be blessed by all Siddhas watching over this monumental divine vision in self-experience with Amarakavi Siddeswara.

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