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Swami Nigamananda
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just recently I came across the wikipedia page for Swami Nigamananda, an Indian saint who lived from 1880 to 1935. I wanted to share an excerpt from his biography from wikipedia as his eclectic spiritual training i found quite impressive and refreshing. throughout his spiritual search he trained with four gurus in four different spiritual paths (tantra, Advaita, yoga, and bhakti) to refine his realization.

below is the excerpt from wikipedia:

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One night Nalinikanta dreamed of a sadhu with a brilliant aura. He woke up to find the sadhu standing beside his bed. The sadhu handed him a bael leaf with a mantra written on it and then vanished. Nalinikanta asked many to help him understand its meaning. Finally he met Bamakhepa, a famous tantrik of Tarapith, Birbhum district. Nalinikanta took initiation (dikhshya) from Bamakhepa and was directed to chant his mantra for 21 days. Under Bamakhepa’s guidance he had physical darshan of Tara Devi in the form of his wife. This darshan led him to another mystery. He saw Tara Devi coming out of his body and mingling with him. To solve this mystery, Bamakshepa advised Nalinikanta to attain the knowledge of Advaita from a vedantic guru. In 1902 he searched for a jnani guru. He met guru Satchidananda Saraswati at the holy place of Pushkar in the Indian state of Rajasthan. He realized that Satchidananda Saraswati was the sadhu who had given him the Tara mantra in his dream. Nalinikanta became his disciple, and learned the theories of Brahma (god as the formless one), Brahma sutras and vedanta. He was initiated by the Satchidananda into renunciation and according to that principle changed his name to Nigamananda.

Satchidananda directed Nigamananda to undertake pilgrimages to the four institutions (Char Dham) of religious seats and realize for himself the significance of each, as the Hindus held these places of worship sacred. After these pilgrimages, he returned to the ashram.

On his arrival at the ashram, Sachidananda reviewed Nigamananda’s pilgrimages and said: "My boy! You have travelled widely and seen the religious places and acquired knowledge and experience. All that I had to teach you has been accomplished but it is for you now to put my teachings into practice. You have to experience for yourself the truth of your being and this can only be done through concerted efforts as well as the practice and observance of you yogic principles. Thus you now have to seek out a guru who will provide you the proper guidance in this line.

Again Nigamananda went out to seek a guru. In 1903 he met a "yogi guru" (yoga master) - whom he called "Sumeru Dasji" (otherwise known as Koot Hoomi Lal Singh or Kuthumi). Nigamananda was accepted as his disciple. Under Das's guidance he learned yoga.[38] After hard practice, in the month of Poush 1904, Nigamananda was able to master Savikalpa samadhi (the trance in which the yogi loses his body consciousness and acquires a transcendental consciousness while retaining his individual identity). Soon after Nigamananda desired to experience the state of Nirvikalpa - the most advanced of yogic samadhis at Kamakshya, Guwahati Assam (Nilachal Hill). Nigamananda followers believe that he did enter by way of this samadhi and was returned into his body with the residual consciousness of "I am the master or guru" and in yoga he had visualized and practically understood in his own body his guru's vedic knowledge.

In 1904, he was in Kashi (now known as Varanasi), when goddess Annapurna appeared in another dream and told him that his knowledge was limited to formless god and not gone beyond that, hence he was still incomplete. He accepted her challenge and traveled to Gouri devi (a siddhayogini) to learn bhava sadhana. Gouri devi accepted him as disciple and taught him bhakti or prem (eternal nature of divine love play) to understand the physical world as the transformation of god in bhava sadhana.

Nigamananda's long and continued search for his guru, resembled the search undertaken by his future disciples to find him.

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Re: Swami Nigamananda [Re: deff]
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I have outlived both he and Paramahansa Yogananda with my crappy western diet and sedentary lifestyle. What does that tell you about the health benefits of yoga and pranayama and vegetarian diet vs. couchpotatoism?

Claims of Samadhi and enlightenment always read like fairy tales with nothing of substance to validate them.


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Re: Swami Nigamananda [Re: deff]
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Sounds like a fairy tale to me. :shrug:

Edit:  I see OC beat me to the fairy tale bit. :haha:

I personally don't see how people swallow this stuff without the least skepticism. :confused:


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Swami Nigamananda [Re: Icelander]
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You outlived both Swamis + Rajneesh as well. You must be a Master! 

:feelingfab:

What I get a kick out of when I play the longevity card is the standard response: "We are spiritual beings having a human experience and our length of time here is relatively unimportant."

Then I ask why Swamis stress body purification, flexibility and raising one's energy so much if health is not so important.

:booooom:


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Re: Swami Nigamananda [Re: deff]
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Did you know that Swami Nigamananda's close disciples referred to him as "My niga"?


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Re: Swami Nigamananda [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
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OrgoneConclusion said:
You outlived both Swamis + Rajneesh as well. You must be a Master! 

:feelingfab:

What I get a kick out of when I play the longevity card is the standard response: "We are spiritual beings having a human experience and our length of time here is relatively unimportant."

Then I ask why Swamis stress body purification, flexibility and raising one's energy so much if health is not so important.

:booooom:



The good die young:shrug:


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Swami Nigamananda [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
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OrgoneConclusion said:
Did you know that Swami Nigamananda's close disciples referred to him as "My niga"?


i expected that comment :lol:


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