Siddhar alchemist Bhogar sat at a small shrine on the top of Palani Hill in the colonial days of 17th century Tamil Nadu. They say he had come to Tamil Country from China and crafted the icon of the Murugan of Palani Hill out of nine arsenics. Water poured in worship over that Murugan is credited with mysterious healing properties. He is said to have attained perfection through yoga, discovering all the universe hidden in the depths of consciousness. With a mind immersed in silent meditation, he related, in flowing verse, how the ensuing serenity he enjoyed became the gate to life's mysteries.

"Having become calm...
I perceived the accompanying experience.
Having experienced...
I have composed 7000."

Seven-thousand verses poured forth gracefully from a foreigner's hand. A foreigner who rejected much of grammar's laws; letting sound run wild in places, letting Tamil's sweetness speak for itself of Life's secrets.

These seven-thousand verses flow in graceful rhyme, a complex echoing of sounds whose meanings convey a flux of images: some humorous or straight forward, brimming with a simple wisdom; others enigmatic, encoded in the secret language of the mystic, haunting if not bizarre.

"My fine fellow,
If you see Nandi,

(Nandi is the Sacred Bull and represents the Earth - Energy Enhancement Alchemical VITRIOL
Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies occultem Lapidem..)

then you will know alchemy.
"To say even one word
is just noisy useless talk.
"It's like having a chat
with a corpse in the burning ground.


"Only by seeing the light
of the jewelled root
will the golden chain
of the Circle's End
come open."

(The jewelled root is the Center of the Earth, kundalini Chakra.
VITRIOL - Visit the Center of the Earth - There you will find the Occult, hidden, Philosophers Stone which changes lead into gold, transmutes energy blockages, trauma and pain into pure golden spiritual light.

Satchidanand

As this preceding verse infers, Bhogar makes little attempt to explain the Siddhar mysteries. His work reads like a narration of his own free-flowing chain of consciousness, as if he embarked upon some journey through the tangled forest of his own subconscious, mapping out the landmarks along the way, as he propelled himself deeper and deeper into the soil of human existence trying to ferret out the very root of consciousness. With each line he digs up another shovelful of the mind's soil, peeling back layer after layer of thought, of ways of perceiving "reality", until he could reveal the essential living root of being.

Bhogar's work is completely spontaneous. Not a slave to order, wonder explodes as verse in the deceptive guise of a child's conspiratorial mid-night whisperings upon waking from a dream. He tells his secrets with gravity, a touch of humor, and a wealth of unrelenting paternal warmth. Bending the laws of grammar, he even rejects being encumbered by the weight that our rigid meanings attribute to words. Discarding reason, he paints in sound and image an ancient uphill path to freedom.

He cast aside logic, dismissing it as empty noise, he sought essence. He makes no pretence that the mind's ceaseless ramblings bear any real fruit. As he so pointedly puts it:

"With words and logic
you get nothing."

Bhogar has made no attempt whatsoever to make his experience of these altered states of consciousness at all intelligible to the common man. Over vast centuries of experimentation with Yogic disciplines and meditation, people like Bhogar have reported their experiences in their own unique way.

PALANI HILL TEMPLE - THE TEMPLE OF BHOGAR TAMIL SIDDAR

Here are some pictures Swami Satchidanand and Swami Devi Dhyani took when we visited Palani Hill Temple with Swami Satchidananda

The great hill temple of Palani, one of the most magnificent Energy Centers in the whole of South India.

Haridwar arati