Ma Shoroshi Prajna

 Kulavadhuta Satpurananda shared the following on his Facebook page (18/08/20)

"To my sangha, disciples, students, friends and well-wishers,

I am happy to declare that Ma Shoroshi Prajna has received her final empowerment (anu-maha-ati Samrajyavisheka) and initiation to final state of Anuttara in Tantra-yogachara in Atiyoga oral tradition of the direct transmission lineage, yesternight in Aghora Chatturdashi. She has been initiated in Chakrasamvara and Hevajra Tantra-yogachara and received black robe vows as an acknowledgement of her perfection of the meditations.

Last Year in this same auspicious day marks of her accomplishment of Mahamudra, Bhutadamara Tantra, together with Kalachakra Tantra mantra-yogachara has been observed.

Last May in the auspicious day of Divine Night in Tantra (Akshay Tritiya) during late night she entered nirvikalpa samadhi reaching Chitvimarshakala the 8th chakra above head through Vedica yoga and marks of such has been confirmed through tests.

Now onwards she will practice The Perfection of Wisdom as an Irreversible Bodhisattva till nirvana.

After my certain black robe disciples who acquired mortal siddhis by the practice Bhutadamara and out of such ego started applying their power wrongly on people for their own personal benefits and fell into the darkness of the hell realm around 2011, I stopped giving any initiations to new sadhakas except for rendering self-healing / purifying mantras to many people.

Maa was the only one after 2014 to be beside her Guru continuing in wondering as a Parivraat, doing her sadhana and serving and nursing me and taking care of all visitors and sangha. Her humility-sincerity-diligence made her arise from the mundane and wholeheartedly accepting the life of a yogini renouncing her formal lay life, name and family bondages.

She first came to me in 2008, and took sannyas in 2013. in 2020 she completed her sadhana to the goal of The Void. Now she has started Samayachara or Lineage training of a Acharya-Guru as the final state of Kulachara or 5-elemental school of Tantra. She in future will inherit me as a seat-holder of this lineage. She is already teaching and training many of my female disciples and students in Tantra-yogachara.

May The Gurus, Nathas, Sadhus, ascetics, yogacharis....... all great souls join with me in wishing her best in her endeavor in The Path.

Adesh!"

 

Source: 

https://www.facebook.com/kulavadhuta.satpurananda/posts/10157876050894779

What is Uttara Kaula?

Uttara Kaula is sometimes translated as Northern Clan or Northern Family. The Northern/Uttara part comes from a fourfold division ( also sometimes five, six or seven, there are many other classifications mentioned throughout the tantras, so-called Krāntas or 'steps') or "transmissions" (āmnāya) of Kaula into Purva

Kaulism developed from Yogini cults, which in turn were derivied from the Skull baring Kāpālikas, derived from kapāla meaning "skull", and Kāpālikas means the "skull-men". The Kāpālikas traditionally carried a skull-topped trident (khatvanga) and an empty skull  as a begging bowl.(1)

The may have been in around as early as the 5th Century as renowned tantric scholar , Mark Dyczkowski has stated.(2)

One of the earliest references to a Kāpālika is found in Hāla's Prakrit poem, the Gāthāsaptaśati (third to fifth century A.D.) in a verse in which the poet describes a young female Kāpālikā who besmears herself with ashes from the funeral pyre of her lover. Varāhamihira (c500-575) refer more than once to the Kāpālikas thus clearly establishing their existence in the sixth century. Indeed, from this time onwards references to Kāpālika ascetics become fairly commonplace in Sanskrit ..

Notes:
1.Flood, Gavin  (2008). The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 212–213. ISBN 978-0-470-99868-7.
2. Dyczkowski, Mark S. G. (1988). The canon of the Śaivāgama and The Kubjikā Tantras of the western Kaula tradition. SUNY series in Kashmir Śaivism. SUNY Press.

Dr. Theos Bernard learnt Hatha Yoga from Pagal Baba

 

Ananda Varta, Volume 40 #3, the AnandaMayi Ma newsletter writes about Pagala Baba of Ranchi as the teacher of Theos Bernard

 

Ananda Varta, Volume 40 #3, the AnandaMayi Ma newsletter writes about Pagala Baba of Ranchi. "Tantric Yogiraj Sri Sri Pagal Baba of Ranchi used to say that Ranchi would be considered as a renowned place of pilgrimage in the Kali Yuga... Dr. Theos Bernard, an internationally renowned American Yogi, had learnt Hatha Yoga and Tantra from Sri Sri Pagal Baba in 1936 at this very place of Ranchi, the center of sadhana... On the 29th of September, 1954 after 10am Mother (AnandaMayi Ma) visited the ashram of Tantric Yogiraj Pagal Baba along with a few devotees in two motor cars.  

Theos Bernard

There was a basketful of fruits and sweetmeats to be distributed in the ashram. Pagala Baba was seated in the posture of a tiger inside the temple of Mukteshwar Shiva. Mother said, "Baba, this small girl of yours has come to see you after hearing from Gopi Baba and Nilmani that you are ill. They have built an ashram here where Durga Puja will be performed. When you recover from your illness, please pay a visit to that ashram." Pagal Baba replied, "No, Mother, I can not go anywhere any more. I am centered here near Mukteshwar for attaining Nitya Niranjan (Eternal Stainlessness)."

AnandaMayi Ma

source: https://goo.gl/I5X4pk 

Uttarakaula Lineage

There has been much dis-information posted on the Internet about the Uttarakaula tradition line that descended from Pagalababa of Ranchi, which has been copied into books and sites, so it seems necessary to set records straight:

Uttarakaula Lineage

Shri Dadaji Gurudev Mahendranath [1911-1991] became the first European to receive Indian Sannyasi initiation, when he arrived in India in 1953, from Shri Lokanath Maharaj into the Adi Nath Sampradaya, who claim descent from Matseyendranath.

Pagalababa

Further travels to Bihar and Bengal led to initiation into the Uttarakaula Tantrik Tradition by Pagalababa of Ranchi. At a time when communications were less well developed than in the 21^st century Dadaji thought that Pagalababa was the last guru of that tradition, and when he died he thought the lineage would become extinct in India, as would the Adi Nath line, although the Nath Acara is a vast network of sub sects based on the teachings of Goraksnath, a pupil of Matseyendranath. Goraksnaths ideas were designed for the development of monastic disciplines, unlike those of his teacher.

Sri Gurudeva Dadaji Mahendranath

So Dadaji had made plans for international groups to carry the lines forward because of the effects of Westernisation on the Indian population. He did initiate a native Indian into Adi Nath line: now Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath, as well as Westerners, to spread the Nath principles worldwide. What he did not know because of poor communications in India was that Thakar Kalachand, who had received initiation in the Uttara line from Pagal Haranath had not only initiated Pagalababa but also a female guru, Maheshwari Ma, who in turn, had initiated Kulavadhut of Sikkim, and who is still alive and well in 2015.

Kulavadhut 

 Therefore the native Indian lineage did not die with Mahendranath, but instead thrives, alongside the international group that Dadaji began. Any decision on Dadaji's part to fuse Adi Nath and Uttarakaula traditions was not therefore within the scope of decision making available to him, and neither of the native lines did become extinct with his death.

It seems highly likely that there are other branches of the Uttara tree that Dadaji was unaware of too, as is seen in the two branches created by Thakar Kalachand in Pagalababa and Maheshwari Ma, that reveal that in the tradition there is not necessarily a history of having to have an absolute solitary guru figure.

Maheshwari Ma

 © 2015 John Power/ Vilasanath - Guru of the Fellowship of the Uttara Circles of Kaulas

first appeared on the noticeboard for the Western branch of the Uttara Kaula tradition