Satguru Kriya Babaji was born on 30 November 203 A.D in a small coastal village now known as Parangipettai, in Tamil Nadu, India. He was born under the same star (Rohini) as Lord Krishna and was given the name Nagarajan. Babaji is considered to be an incarnation of Lord Muruga, in a body that fittingly pays homage to him as lord of eternal youth and beauty. His parents were Nambudri Brahmins who had immigrated there from the Malabar coast on the western side of South India. At the age of 5, someone kidnapped him and sold him as a slave at Dacca, capital of Bangladesh. Fortunately, his new owner was a kind man and he freed Nagarajan shortly thereafter. He joined a small group of wandering monks due to their radiant faces and love for god and for the next few years he wandered from place to place studying Holy Scriptures. He migrated to Benares and shone as a Sanskrit scholar of great eminence.
At the age of eleven, he made a difficult journey by foot and boat with a group of ascetics to Kathirgamam on the southern coast of Sri Lanka. There he met Siddha Boganathar and became his disciple. He performed intensive yoga sadhanas for 18 months with him. Drawing inspiration from the great Siddha of Science, Boganathar, he was able to appreciate and understand the full significance of Siddhantha Yoga and Soruba Samadhi and he accepted the challenge of attaining this mystic goal, supreme, Samadhi. It was Boganathar who inspired Babaji to seek his initiation into Kriya Kundalini Pranayamam from Siddha Agastya. At the age of 15 Babaji became a disciple of Agastya and was fortunate to be initiated into the secrets of Kriya Kundalini Pranayamam at Kutralam. Babaji made a long pilgrimage to Badrinath and remained absorbed for years in the intensive Yogic Sadhana taught to him by Boganathar and Agastya finally to emerge Laughing at the Limitations of Death. He was a Siddha who has surrendered to the power and consciousness of the divine. His body was no longer subject to the ravages of disease or death. He dedicated himself to the upliftment of suffering humanity.
The immortal Babaji made his own contributions to the nucleus given to him by Siddha Agastya, renamed it “Kriya” and has retained his form through the centuries tapping many, speaking to a few and materializing to give darshan to his saintly chosen. For centuries he worked behind the scenes as the source of inspiration and guidance to past Kriya Masters like Adi Shankara, Kabir Das, Lahiri Mahasaya and many others
Thus he is the climax of the 18 Tamilian Yoga Siddha tradition, which includes Thirumoolar, Ramdevar, Kumbamuni, Konkanavar, Sattamuni, Karoovurar, Sundarnandar, Valmiki, Nandi Devar, Paambati, Boganathar, Maccahmuni, Patanjali, Dhanvanthri, Goraknath, Kudambai, Idaikadar and Kamalamuni.
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