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The Yoga of Siddha Boganathar by T.N. Ganapathy Ph.D. is the first in a series of publications produced by the Yoga Siddha Research Project sponsored by Babaji’s Kriya Yoga Order of Acharayas and Yoga Research and Education Center.

Boganathar was the Siddha Guru of Kriya Babaji Nagaraj the famed Himalayan master. Boganathar lived an extremely long life through the use of alchemical rejuvenation formulate and special breathing techniques. He traveled all over the world chronicled the lives of Siddhas much older than himself and mapped out an illumined path to integral transformation of human nature into divinity. His astounding life provides a shining example of our human potential. Apart from being a highly realized master he also was a great scientist who invented a steamship an automobile a flying machine a parachute and hundreds of medicinal remedies.

The present work provides a biography of Boganathar gleaned form his writings alone. This avoids the distortion of orally transmitted legends. Dr. Ganapathy also conveys the extraordinary challenge of comprehending the esoteric poetry of Boganathar and the Siddhas in General.

The heart of this book is a translation with commentary of seventy five selected poems which serious students of the history of religion and in particular of Yoga and Tantra will find illuminating by meditating upon the verses the reader will be able to draw much inspiration.

This volume contains a word by word translation (with alternative meanings) a literal rendering and an interpretative translation to balance the need for precision and understanding and to facilitate deeper meditative approach to the various layers of meaning of each verse.