ŚHRĪ MACCHINDRANĀTH in the Words of ŚHRĪ MĀTĀJĪ

"Macchinder Nath an incarnation of Primordial Guru started Nath Pantha. Even after some decades these were very few real Gurus (Avadhuta[s)] left in this cult. The deterioration started. Tankrikas [tantrikas] who imposed themselves as Gurus took charge of the cult in Many places."
1902-0000 Handwritten Note on Haṭha Yoga related to The Book of Ādi Śhakti, Chapter 7

"Now about this power ... in our country many people knew about this for ages and they were called true Masters (Sadguru). These people had attained this knowledge through very hard penance.
A power named as Kuṇḍalinī resides in our triangular bone. And we call it Kuṇḍalinī because it's [it] sits in the shape of three and a half coil. It is very surprising that even Greeks knew about this. Because the triangular bone where Kuṇḍalinī resides, they call it sacrum bone. It means there is this sacred bone within us. Not sure, if many of these things they adopted from us or they attained this knowledge themselves in sahaja way.
In our country, experimentations to achieve Self-realization have been going on for ages. In Maharashtra [India] there have been people belonging to Nāth sect like Macchindranāth, Gorakhnāth, etc., these people were all into this."
1907-0000 Interview (Hindi) with a Lady for a TV Program Directed by Ashok Agarwal, Ardhamātrā Volume 2, New Delhi, India

"To make the people cross the Void (Bhavasāgara) He has to make some arrangement. So the Great Power like Brahmā, Viṣhṇu, Maheśha was created and They were placed in the Area of Dharma.
Dattātreya and Ādi Gurus incarnated in this world many a times. He incarnated as King Janaka who was like the father of Ādi Śhakti. After that He incarnated in Iran as Zoroaster, then as Macchindranāth, then as Muhammad Sāheb and Nāṇak Sāheb.
No one fought with each other. See what type of darkness you are in?"
1973-1125 Public Program (Hindi), Day 7, Pāne ke Bāda: Sāta Chakroṃ ke Devatā (After Getting It: Deities of the Seven Chakras), 4 Duplex Lane, New Delhi, India

"Śhrī Dattātreya's Incarnations are numerous. Firstly He came as King Janaka. Śhrī Sītājī was His daughter, who was the embodiment of Śhakti Herself. Then He came as Macchindranāth, Zoroaster, and Muhammad Sāhab, who were a completely different type of human being.
They trialed out lots of different things.
Śhrī Datta, the Primordial Masters firstly in this world educated us about the symbolic forms within us. And then also said that, "You people got entangled in symbolism, in idol worshiping." Their meaning was to go beyond and recognize the Śhakti within these idols. That's why They talked about the idols."
1973-1208 Public Program (Hindi), Day 2, Biralā Krīṛā Keṃdra, Chowpatty, Girgaum Chowpatty, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

"The same Śhrī Dattā incarnated many a times on the Earth.
As I told you yesterday, King Janaka was one of Them. King Janaka was the father of Jānakī [Śhrī Sītā]. He was none other than the Incarnation of Śhrī Dattātreya.
Thereafter, Macchindranāth, most have you must have heard His name, was also His Incarnation.
After that Zoroaster who came three times on the Earth, He was also His Incarnation.
After that Muhammad Sāhab, who was His Incarnation.
And when He was asked that, "Bhāī [Brother], there must have been others also before You," then He replied, "Yes, there [was] a Muhammad." Then again He was asked who was before Him. He replied, "There was one Muhammad."
Muhammad means Praise, the One who is praised, the One who deserves to be praised and is the One who is Redeemer of the world.
They were all Muhammads, They were all Dattātreyas, who came on Earth regularly.
After that [was] Nāṇaka, Guru Nāṇaka. If you ever read His teachings, if you read His talks then you will be surprised that He has always talked in a Sahaja. He has said, "Sahaja Samādhi lago." He has said, "Kāhe re ban khojan jāe, Sarab nivāsī sadā alepā tohī saṃg[a] samāī, Puṣhpamadhya jo bāsa basata hai mukara māhī jaise chhāī, Taise hī harī base niraṃtara ghaṭa hī khojo bhāī." ["Why to go to forest to find Him, He is always there with you just like there is a fragrance in a flower and just as the reflection is there in a mirror, in the same way God is residing in you eternally, seek Him within."] He is just inside, achieve Him just inside. We are just singing poem, singing songs, we are just cramming His prescription.
The talk of seeking this Absolute Principle, residing just inside the heart, has been made since ancient times by these Ādi Gurus, who are incarnated on this Earth again and again.
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Now just look at Gaganagaḍ Mahārāj, it is true that he cured many people, but the problem is that his fingers moved inside like a telescope and those of feet also. The poor man lives on a tree or moves on a lion. Apart from this he cannot move anywhere. But when I reached to him, these people were with Me, he quickly recognized Me. There is no doubt about it. He has not yet seen Me in this lifetime. But from many years he knew about Me. He is elder to Me. He began to say, "Mother, I have been waiting for you for many years. Today I am so fortunate that you have come here." He is a Nāth Pānthi, so he is just like Macchindranāth and a very great person."
1973-1209 Public Program (Hindi), Day 3, Śhrī Dattātreya Jayanti, Biralā Krīṛā Keṃdra, Chowpatty, Girgaum Chowpatty, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

"Now, we have had great Saints in our country, no doubt.
Even a person like Gyāneśhwara, was a great Saint we have [had]. And He was in the same line as Macchindranāth, Gorakhnāth, then Gyānināth, and then His father [brother] there was Nivṛuttināth, and He initiated Him. And we had a Great Guru paramparā, Guru tradition in a ... that Nāth Pānthis.
Even He, Gyāneśhwara, who was a realized Soul, no doubt, and His brother was really a very great Saint. Even He, when He writes about [the] Kuṇḍalinī awakening, He doesn't do the way you Sahaja Yogis [unclear].
That I wish you could read Marathi, I could make you understand now.
And how He has raised the Kuṇḍalinī, what happens: He could give Realization to two people in His lifetime. See?"
1979-0527 Conversation with Sahaja Yogis, TM, False Gurus, Industrial Revolution, Christ, Go Slowly with New People, Seminar, Day 1, Āśhram, 8, Hamilton Road, Dollis Hill, London NW10 1NX, UK

"Dattātreya is the innocence of all these Three Powers.
And this Guru uh was the One whose ... who then had a big tradition of Gurus.
In the same tradition, we had many Gurus in our country. And, specially, in the area near Bombay [Mumbai], which is called as Maharashtra, they came as Nāth. They are, they were called as Nāth.
So the first one was Ādināth [Ṛiṣhabhadeva, first Tīrthaṅkara in Jainism], then ahh Dattātreya, then Macchindranāth, then Gorakhnāth, like that a tradition of these Gurus came.
But all Their knowledge was kept as a guarded secret. It was a Gupta Vidyā. Is absolutely guarded secret: secret knowledge about Kuṇḍalinī.
They never talked about it, they never told about it. Because they thought: that, 'Just now, let us experiment with it fully, and then we will give some idea about it to people.' "
1979-0530 Public Program, A Higher Life, A World of Bliss and Joy (The Three Paths of Evolution), Caxton Hall, 10 Caxton Street, Westminster, London, UK

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1982-0926 Śhrī Durgā Pūjā, Mind Is just like a Donkey, House of Grégoire de Kalbermatten, Sternwartestrasse 62, Vienna, Austria

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1983-0107 Śhrī Gaṇeśha Pūjā (English + Marathi + English), Jñāneśhvarasāgar (Mulā Dharaṇa or Mula Dam), Bārāgāva Nāṃdūra (near Rāhurī), Maharashtra, India

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1986-0106 Śhrī Mahālakṣhmī Pūjā (English + Marathi + English), Ascent Is the Main Attention, Sangli, Maharashtra, India

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1986-0125 Pūjā, Why We Have Failed in Our Pursuit of God (The Whole System Has to Be Changed), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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1987-1221 Pūjā (Marathi + English + Marathi + English), Become Beautiful Vessels of Vibrations and Attention on Quality, House of Madhukar Bhikobā Dhumāḷ, near Railway Station, Rāhurī, Maharashtra, India

[We had many Yogis who started work on the middle path of human ascent like Gorakhnāth, Ādināth [Ṛiṣhabhadeva, first Tīrthaṅkara in Jainism], Macchindranāth. They worked on the problem of human beings and how to make this ascent possible. They discovered in human beings in the triangular bone sacrum a residual power.]
1989-1018 Public Talk, 1st World Conference on Yoga Organized by the Soviet Ministry of Health, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia (other date 1019)

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1990-0212 Public Program, Day 1, Chowdia Memorial Hall, Town Hall, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

"Now, the tradition is, that: we had a group, we should say, we called them as Nāth Pānthis, in India, who were working on the central path, which is called as Suṣhumṇā. But the tradition was that only one guru c[o]uld have only one disciple. That was the tradition, for ages together.
And the we had this-s Gorakhnāth, and you must have heard about the Macchindranāth, Gorakhnāth, Ādināth [Ṛiṣhabhadeva, first Tīrthaṅkara in Jainism], all these people."
1991-0413 Public Program, National Press Club, Canberra, Australia

Variant 1:
"In early tradition, it was accustomed to have one guru per student.
It was like this in Nāth Pānthi. One path was devotion (Bhakti Mārg) and the other path was to read about lok [mankind, world] or ved [knowledge]. But as far as Self-realization was concerned, Nāth Pānthi introduced [it] in Maharashtra, like Macchindranāth and Gorakhnāth. At that time also there was a custom to have one guru per student."
Variant 2:
"Earlier, it was a custom that one guru should have only one disciple only.
This was the custom in Nāth Pānthi also. On one side, they were very ignorant, and on the other side, people were reading Vedas, etc. But when it was the question of Self-realization, it was Nāth Pānthis who said it was in Maharashtra. Like Macchindranāth, Gorakhnāth. At that time, it was a custom that one master should have only one disciple."
1991-1216 Public Program (Hindi + Marathi), Day 1, Kuṇḍalinī Eka Mahāna Śhakti (Kuṇḍalinī Is a Great Power), Grounds, New English School, Pune, Maharashtra, India

"And that is why, in this country, people knew about Kuṇḍalinī since long.
I don't know if you have read about Mārkaṇḍeya, who is, see, was about fourteen thousand years back in history. And He has talked about Kuṇḍalinī.
Then we have Nāth Pānthis who were, like Macchindranāth, Gorakhnāth, ancient! They have talked of Kuṇḍalinī. They where the ones who really used a separate or different type of a method, which they called as Sahaj the Way."
1994-0115 Public Program, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

[Today's Sahaj Yoga is only one advancement.]
[If you read Mārkaṇḍeya, who was thirteen thousand years ago, he was only sixteen years old when He wrote about the Kuṇḍalinī.]
[Macchindranāth, Gorakhnāth and Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya have described it.]
1994-0118 Public Program, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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1995-1001 Navarātri Pūjā (cusp between 7th Day and 8th Day), You Must Project Your Depth and Not Reflect, Hangar, Cabella Ligure, Alessandria, Italy

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1995-1008 Śhrī Śhakti Devī Pūjā, We Have to Understand Our Own Responsibility (Sense of Responsibility and the Main Quality of Viśhuddhi Chakra is Responsibility) and The Greatest Problem of America is Mister Ego (Surrender your ego and Ego Must Be Controlled), Camp Vacamas, 256 Macopin Road, West Milford, NJ, U.S.A.

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1995-1028 Talk to Sahaja Yogis (Marathi + Hindi + English), after Concert, the day before Diwālī Pūjā (Hindi) (5th day after Diwālī Day), Nargol, Maharashtra, India

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1995-1030 Diwālī Pūjā (Hindi + English) (6th day after Diwālī Day), Sahajyog Ke Suruvat (How Sahaja Yoga Started), Nargol, Maharashtra, India

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1996-0219 Public Address to Doctors, Inauguration, International Sahaja Yoga Research and Health Center, Plot No. 1, Sector 8, H.H. Śhrī Nirmalā Devī Mārg, C.B.D. Belapur, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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1996-0721 Public Program, CSCA Stadium, Povitroflots'kyi prospect 2, Kiev, Ukraine

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1996-0919 Public Program, Convocation Hall, University of Toronto, 31 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, Canada

"But I was surprised that in Kiev, which is the capital of Ukraine, I went to see the museum: is full of paintings of Kuṇḍalinī and of the chakras, different chakras. I was amazed: 'How could it be?'
And then they said that, "Two thousand before Christ [2000 B.C.], two S-Saints came from India," and they told Me the name and I was a... amazed how they knew the names of those people: Macchindranāth and Gorakhnāth.
That time I think America didn't exist, otherwise they would have come here also. [Laughter.]
And these two people went there. And they taught them all about Kuṇḍalinī, but they said, "We didn't know how to raise, we didn't know how to achieve it. So, we just knew it, but we didn't know how to do it."
Same in India: Gyāneśhwara has written about it.
But much before that, thirteen thousand years back, another Saint, Mārkaṇḍeya, has written about it.
Then in the sixth century, Ādi Śhaṅkarāchārya has written about it.
And it has been written by many people. In the sixteenth century, so many Saints have written about.
In the Bible also it is there, that, "I'll appear before you like tongues of flames," and these are the chakras that you see."
1996-0924 Public Program, The Olympic Collection, Grand Ballroom, 3rd Floor, 11301 W. Olympic Boulevard, 204, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

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1996-0927 Public Program, Auditorium, New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street, Manhattan, New York City, NY, U.S.A.

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1997-0406 Public Talk to Doctors, Conference "The Art of Healing and 'Sahaja Yoga' – A Special Session on Alternative Medicine", Indian Medical Association, FICCI Auditorium, 1 Tansen Mārg, New Delhi, India

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1997-0622 Public Program, Convocation Hall, University of Toronto, 31 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, Canada

"Those who went into the research of this in India were called as Nāth Pānthis. Nāth means master and paṇṭh[an] means way, that is, way or road of mastery. Macchindranāth and Gorakhnāth were two of these Saints thousands of years ago. These two and others traveled extensively. They had visited the land which is now Ukraine because in the museum you can find ancient pottery with paintings of these chakras."
1997-0827 Written (Presented) Talk, Russian Folk Medicine Conference, Russia (other date 0901)}

"I am very surprised that from India people like Macchindranāth, Gorakhnāth, who used to talk about Kuṇḍalinī, traveled to places like Bolivia, several thousand years back, which is a very difficult place for us to reach. They went to Ukraine and also to some parts of Russia. And after going there they explained to people that, 'This Kuṇḍalinī Śhakti is inside you and all the chakras are present inside your system.'
And we people who are their progeny do not know anything about Kuṇḍalinī.
The natives of Bolivia know everything about Kuṇḍalinī but they say that they do not know how to awaken the Kuṇḍalinī, though they are aware of the existence of Kuṇḍalinī. I went to Bolivia only once, and many thousands of people got Self-realization instantly.
But we people do not have any knowledge of this, and no one tells us about it, nor it is mentioned in any of our books. It is as if we have been completely severed from that great culture and the great knowledge, and we ourselves do not know what kind of peculiar human beings we have become. We are neither Indians nor English. We do not know to which country we belong to. People also do not know the meaning of Kuṇḍalinī. Just imagine, people do not know what is this Kuṇḍalinī which has an ocean-like knowledge inside it."
1998-1218 Public Program (Hindi), Naitikatā aura Deśhabhakti (Ethics and Patriotism), Rāmlīlā Maidān, New Delhi, India

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1999-1015 Talk to Sahaja Yogis, after the Evening Program, Friday before Navarātri Pūjā (6th Day), Hangar (now Nirmal Temple), Albera Ligure, Alessandria, Italy

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2000-0305 Śhivarātri Pūjā (English + Hindi + Marathi), Stadium, Pune, Maharashtra, India

"Many Saints from our country went to other countries. I think Macchindranāth and Gorakhnāth also went to many countries.
Bolivian people know about them. They know the names of the chakras and also they know about Kuṇḍalinī.
I have seen, in the ancient paintings of the Russia, they have painted plexuses. If you travel a little in this country [Russia], then you will be surprised that how and from where have they known about it! Decidedly some of our Saints might have gone there and told about every thing."
2000-0325 Public Program (Hindi), Hamārī Ātmā Kyā Chīja Hai (What Is Our Spirit), Rāmlīlā Maidān, New Delhi, India

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2000-0408 Public Address to I.A.S. Officers' Wives Association, New Delhi, India

"In Africa, I was surprised: that they have talked about Kuṇḍalinī. They have! And I have seen some of the maps, old maps, of Africa, they have made the picture of Kuṇḍalinī also, all over.
Even in a place like Bolivia, which is so far away, and the somebody went to Bolivia, from Italy, and he said, "Mother they know everything about Kuṇḍalinī!" I said, "Really?" "Yes, they know, but they don't know how to awaken It."
And sprea... Sahaja Yoga has spread so much in Bolivia: the Minister from there came to see Me.
And who told them? I said, "Who told them?" They said, "There were two Saints who came from India."
Even in Ukraine, I was surprised, they said, "There were two Saints who came here from India, they told us about Kuṇḍalinī."
Chinese people, they believe that there is a treasure of spirituality in India, but they don't know what it is, you see.
But these two, I don't know, there were two Saints known as Macchindranāth and Gorakhnāth who have been traveling all over the world. But I don't know if they went all the way [smiling:] over there."
2000-0927 Public Program, Day 2, Hall, Holland Park School, Airlie Gardens, Campden Hill Rd, London W8 7AF, UK

"The Primordial Master was also born as Macchindranāth, and again as Zoroaster who was worshiped by the ancient Persians, and still revered by Parsis. Earlier He had taken birth as Abraham and later as Moses, the Fathers of Judaism. In China He was born as Confucius and as Lao Tze, and in Greece as Socrates. He took a very significant Incarnation as Muhammad Sāhib, the Messenger (Paigambar) and founder of Islam, whose daughter Fāṭimah was Sītā reborn, an Incarnation of Ādi Śhakti. She was the origin of the Shiya sect among the Muslims (in Indian dialect Sītā is called Shiya). Yet again He took birth as Guru Nāṇak, founder of the Sikh religion, whose sister was Nāṇakī (Jānakī, i.e., Sītā). Most recently He was born as Śhrī Sāī Bābā of Śhirḍī in the Indian State of Maharashtra where He died in 1918. Altogether there were ten major Avatāras of Dattātreya."
The Book of Ādi Śhakti, Chapter 2: Divine Incarnations – Ambassadors of God

"Macchindranāth, an Incarnation of Dattātreya, the Primordial Master, started {\it Nāth Pāntha}. There were some very feared gurus ({\it Avadhūtas}) of this cult even decades later. Its deterioration started, though, when tāntrikas imposed themselves as gurus, and took over the cult in many places. These fake gurus were criticized by the great Saint Kabīr Dās in His poems."
The Book of Ādi Śhakti, Chapter 7: Haṭha Yoga and Rāja Yoga

"In this Void is placed the Primordial Master (Ādi Guru) formed from Brahmā, Viṣhṇu and Maheśha (Śhiva). This Primordial Master is also known as Dattātreya. He has taken many human births as a Prophet and teacher, such as Rāja Janaka, Ādināth [Ṛiṣhabhadeva, first Tīrthaṅkara in Jainism], Macchindranāth, Zoroaster, Guru Nāṇaka, and Sāī Nāth of Śhirḍī. This Deity helps human beings to seek their salvation by crossing the Void or Ocean of Illusion within themselves."
The Book of Ādi Śhakti, Chapter 9: The Creation of Kuṇḍalinī in Human Beings

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