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We are the first generation of western Naths. In life we often stick apart, here we can come together in virtual space to create our new world.

The tale of the Indian Naths stretches back a thousand years and more, a story full of saints, miracles, Kings and fools. In India today many Naths are either in jail, or worse, in politics. Mahendranath, the English saint and hermit, spent his life in India as a naked Nath. He sought and found many of the essential concepts that sustained the Naths through the millennia. He wrote tantras and poems and stories to convey what he had discovered to the western world. He was called Paramahamsa, the Great Swan, because he was able to extract the milk of pure intelligence and leave behind the water of cultural usage and local context. This site is dedicated to Mahendranath. It is also dedicated to that water in which the knowledge held by the Naths can flower again.

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The Nath Bones

Many ideas and practices will be discussed and tested through these pages. I believe this is the bedrock of Nath belief in India and the ideas are universally accepted in Indian spiritual thinking.

All Naths, whether from ancient India or the modern world, share one great desire. We seek direct knowledge of the Absolute, knowing full well that we will be forever transformed on every level of our existence and Being through such contact.

Naths have traditionally been masters of Yoga. Yoga is anything that brings one closer to the goal of union with the Absolute.

Naths do not seek the great treasures of this world nor the great pleasures. This means we are no longer playing by the rules. Subtract desire for wealth, fame, power, knowledge, family, love, security and comfort from the equation of life and what have you got? If nothing else the discomfort factor provides impetus to get the whole damn thing done as soon as possible. Liberation is the goal, pain drives us, curiosity leads us, but what attracts us? Unless we have witnessed and recognised the Avadhoot we travel with the same hope, illusion and blind faith as all the other pilgrims on this earth.

All the knowledge and technique in the world is useless baggage, unless it successfully contributes to the Ultimate Transformation, changing a severely under-performing human into the bizarre, self-realized, liberated Avadhoot.

Because we are newcomers to the territory, we have little to go on except wild assertions from ancient times and translations that never quite mean what they say. Culturally our central obsession doesn’t even register as existing let alone being of any importance. The aims, methods and results are alien to the modern mind.

I don’t know what you are doing here, but I wish you

PEACE FREEDOM AND HAPPINESS.

ADESH

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8 Responses to “The Nath Bones”

  1. Administrator Says:
    August 19th, 2005 at 9:30 am

    Define Absolute. Without a definition of the key work what does it all mean?

  2. Hermeticusnath Says:
    August 19th, 2005 at 9:38 pm

    Om!

    May all Naths enjoy this lovely pond of cyber bliss!

    Shanti to you & merry met again :)

    Ha

    Hermeticusnath
    Seattle

  3. Administrator Says:
    August 20th, 2005 at 2:23 pm

    Hi Hermeticusnath,
    I couldn’t find your address so I am writing right here. I clicked on your name and arrived at your marvelous website. Long time no see, but my, you have been busy! I LOVE your art. Whether painting, sigilisation, or collage they are skillful and deeply expressive. Wow, I am impressed. I also enjoyed your bio…what an interesting line you have walked…far and wide. I was disappointed that the Mahendranath link was down.
    Art, or the creation of beauty seems to be one of the paths most open to we Naths who need to tread thoughtfully in this world. Something in your bio leads me to think you know lots about beauty AND treading thoughtfully,
    Hum! from the joyous pond
    lalita

  4. Gunanath Says:
    September 28th, 2005 at 5:41 pm

    Nicely written. I enjoyed it very much.

  5. Hermeticusnath Says:
    October 5th, 2005 at 1:09 am

    Lalita Devi!

    Om !

    Good to hear from you- thanks for the kind words & good thoughts-

    Please check out my real new joy- lots of Nath goodies in it too-

    SILVER STAR MAGAZINE

    http://www.horusmaat.com/silverstar

    Youll like the 108 Shiva Hymns in ss3

    Much joy to you

    Love & Will

    Hermeticus the Mad

  6. Kala Devi Says:
    October 19th, 2005 at 1:02 pm

    Lalita,

    Good to see you’re posting your account of your journey with Dadaji.
    Maybe think about creating a link to the home website of the Kaula Nath Ganas
    tantricbliss.org
    site developed by Vishvanath.

    Every time you update your stories, Al Billings and I provide a link to it in our respective blogs.
    Exciting stuff!

    Love,
    Kala Devi

  7. Garudanath Says:
    November 14th, 2005 at 2:44 am

    Om shree nirvritti marga paramahamsaji namaha!
    May all beings be free!
    Peace, Freedom, and Happiness
    …like the Sky, resting in his satisfaction that is was as clean as can be!
    …surrounded by Eternity, the space cowboy made his move:… opted for Now!
    Blessings Sister,
    Garuda

  8. Siddhanatha Maharaj Says:
    September 3rd, 2006 at 2:34 am

    Hi I have started my own nath lineage known as THE SIDDHANATHA SAMPRADAYA OF AUSTRALIA. The primary objective of our living tradition is to awaken Kundalini in others through SHAKTIPAT. We maintain our awakening throught the Ancient Principles of yoga chanting meditation tantra and understanding the Truth for ourselves. The Great Reality is not far away it is right here right now in you as the UNDERSTANDING: I AM THAT. Beyond gurus beyond lineages beyond books.

    Love and Regards

    DHANA THANE SIDDHANATHA MAHARAJ

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