Bogar is a Siddhar, he is considered as one of the 18 siddhars born in the world. According to epigraphical sources and his book Bogar Seven thousand his period is around 3000 B.C. Bogar born at India and visited China in search of truth of life, he gained knowledge in medicine, astrology, spritiuality, yoga etc.
Bogar anticipating that in due course of period, human beings will suffer from large number of disease. As an expert in medicine he used 4448 rare herbs and made 9 poisonous medicine, mixing these 9 poisons into one needs great knowledege and skill, to make a Master Medicine ( One medicine to cure all disease ). Thirumoolar also discuss one such Master Medicine in his book Thiru Mandiram. With the consultation of Agasthiar ( Father of Ayurvedic Medicine) and other siddhars Bogar mixed the 9 poisons ( Nava Bashanam ) and made the Master Medicine in the form of Lord Murugan which is currently worshiped at Palani Murugan temple. There is a place near Palani Hill called Thanasiappan Temple which is the place were Bogar mixed the Nava Bashanam and made the Murugan idol.
His disciple Pulipani siddhar then took over the job of Lord Murugan pooja after Bogar went into Nirvigalpa Samadhi - the highest samadhi stage; where the Mind dissolves with Matter and Energy. Bogar Samadhi is inside Palani Murugan temple at Palani Hill. Actually Bogar himself constructed his samadhi exactly under the Lord Murugan Navabasha idol and went into Nirvigalpa Samadhi there. The entrance to his samadhi is a cave like structure, now also worship for this great siddhar is conducted at this entrance where he is last seen by his disciples which is at the Palani temple.
With reverential obeisance to the holy feet of my beloved guru BOGAR, I take this moment to showcase his technical inventions and scientific experiments. The mystic man Bogar is considered to be one of the 18 siddha purushas of the siddha lineage in South India.
Lord Shiva being the Aadhi siddha himself had bestowed upon Sage Agasthya to have foremost authority over the group. It was Bogar who used nine poisons with herbal extract and sculpted the existing divine statue of Lord Muruga at Palani hill in Dindigul district of Tamilnadu. Panchapaashaanam, Navapaashaanam, Dasapaashanam are different chemical compositions that remain sturdy for several thousand years. The holy water after ablution (abisheka) to idols made of the pashaana composition cures hundreds of known diseases.
In 2013 I published an abridged concise treatise in Tamil for the mega work ‘Bogar-7000’. The original lengthy poetry composed in Tamil with seven thousand songs is called Sapthakaandam as it has seven kanto comprising 1000 songs in each. Each song has four verses set to alliteration of classical Tamil grammar meter. Siddha Bogar has to his credit several thousand voluminous compositions spreading over topics like medicine, elixir, oceans of birth, procedure to invoke shiva-shakthi, epic of wisdom, mastering ashta siddhi, stages of samadhi, black magic, salts, alchemy, airplane, ship building, etc. It is believed Bogar left China around 4 BC and later attained Nirvikalpa samadhi in 7 AD at Palani. Through his divine revelation, I had the opportunity to have his darshan in his current form.
For several aeons Bogar has been under the tutelage of his guru Kaalaangi, and mastered the nuances of wisdom. Under instructions from his guru, Bogar took the form of a Chinese old man Laotzu, and has been living thence for several yugas. He chose China for various good reasons and proximity to the Himalayas (Meru hill). Sage Agasthya had himself showered praises on Bogar as the ‘Flying Siddha who rarely remained on earth’. With the assistance of his faithful disciple Pulipani, Bogar chalked the ways of performing pooja and formulated steps to preserve his masterpiece statue carved out of Naavapaashaana. He had said that Sathuragiri is the head quarters of all siddhas. A hilly terrain situated in the Srivilliputhur taluk of Tamilnadu, it is the abode of Lord Shiva that is respected equally to Mount Kailash.
Siddha Bogar had fathomed the essence of the works of seniors and contemporaries. He had studied all the scriptures through thousands of years at Meru hill. Through the words of Bogar, it is understood that the samadhi of books (libraries) are on the western side of Meru. Each time at the onset of apocalypse, all rishis reached the cliff with the heaps of scriptures and palm leaf manuscripts, only to leave with the custodian Lord Shiva. Now what we claim as the snow peak Kailasa is the store house of books. Bogar claims to have read and digested the contents in no time. His narration ‘In Kaliyug, the people living south of Himalayas will not even get to read at least 1% of what I read’ makes us spellbound.
Hope you are aware of the controversy on Vaimanika shastra that erupted at the Indian Science Congress held last year. Now after going through the achievements of my beloved guru, I can strongly say that Vimanika shastra is true and can be interpreted with reference to other similar ancient scriptures that are available. Prior to siddha Bogar, rishis like Bhardwaja, Ashwini, Tiruvela, Kashyapa had made and flown indigenous vimanas. Though fuels varied, the purpose of the machine served. They had flown and crossed several yojanas in few minutes. The Vaan Ratha as Bogar called it existed in gold, silver, and alloy of five metals, panchaloka / panchadhathu. Owing to the colour of alloy mixture it was reddish and he coined it Sempuravi in Tamil (the red chariot). The typical shape described by him appeared like temple chariot. Since it resembled the gopura vimana of temple, the flying plane was called a vimana. In my view, he is the only siddha to have constructed and operated several airplanes to fly across seven seas carrying rishis and Chinese folks on a joy ride.
After roaming over sapthasagara (Red Sea, Caspian Sea, Black Sea, Dead Sea, Indian Ocean, China Sea, Persian sea), he returned to China and offloaded the people who were in disbelief and joy. In fifth kanto, he mentions the sea abutting Gulf and Gujarat coast as Krishna samudra. He was the one who built a gigantic ship with wood and iron measuring 800 yards in length, 100 yards in breadth and 100 yards in height. It had seven tiers, decks and a fort of 64 apartments with sufficient glass windows facing North-South and doors facing East-West. His ship ran on powerful steam engines. With well laid hard core pipes to carry hot steam across the floor to operate pistons in turbine engines and rotate the propeller, he ensured the pipes were leak proof and conveyed high pressure hot steam. With high rise chimneys for letting out smoke, he erected the steering on the top deck to facilitate his view of sail. Details on ship building are described in his songs (No: 1927 -1945). Thus he wrote:
‘Built a massive ship to accommodate thousand people
Chinese aghast with calculated formula on wooden planks;
Decided on impeccable geometry to make the floating giant
Stood on iron nailed pillars and turbine powered by hot steam’
It leaves us speechless to visualize the extent of woods that were chopped, treated, shaped and nailed in place. The magnitude of iron, glass and ropes required, the overall labour involved in the execution of project with perfect trigonometry, hydraulics, mechanics and dynamics of viscosity –buoyancy, would certainly leave us guessing.
In song 2204, he narrates how he designed the Aero-chariot, the Vaan Rathaa, much to the astonishment of kings. His vertical chariot measuring 30 yards in breadth, 100 yards in height with 3 cylindrical stages had strong base with wheels and adjustable stilt to support corners. It ran without being pulled by horses (Asvamilla vandi). He describes the structure as fuelled by burning coal to heat the boiler. The hot steam rotated the magnetic propeller to swiftly rise up the sky with booming noise. Bogar says that all panchabootha elements play a vital role in the flight dynamics. He flew over China over a range of 30 km in sky. However, readers may imagine the basic shape of the temple Rathas of South India as shown here. It is understood he used black magnets to improve electromagnetic force.
In song 2215-2220, he describes the route travelled and the cities to which he had flown. He had used the Tamil system of linear scale Kaadham, meaning 10 miles. In nutshell:
‘Beyond eight hundred kaadhams, carried rishis and Chinese to Rome
Alighted at the tomb of Roman charioteer, saw the samadhi of Jesus;
Seen seventy nations around and countless rishis on the land of Jews
Off loaded people in their lands after seeing wonders of the world’
His songs narrate the physical appearance, glow, sound properties and driving mechanism. With flair to ride on Ashwini maharishi’s airplane, Bogar disclosed his wish and had permission to drive. It appears the plane driven with joystick also obeyed to oral command. Bestowed with Lahima, siddhas generally travelled the space through flying mode (Gegana siddhi) by keeping a special Gulikha in mouth till they descended to earth. Song 4485 says,
‘Visited the ashrama of Ashwini, sighted the airplane with joy in wild dense
After breath control, climbed over with gulikha on hand, flew to the far off;
As instructed by maharishi, stewarded right and left to perfectly land in vicinity
Oh! The fuel power had run down and your flight is again on earth my son.’
His song 4513 has proof of his demonstration as to how he successfully explored and tested the voice synthesis of oral command as instructed by Maharishi.
‘To my wish and command, the plane should obey oral orders
Become still at the touch of my fingers to descend at the street;
Maharishi taught machine language to control it as desired
Generous enough to allow me to take it to the land of China’
Bogar has lived through many yugas and seen apocalypses. The songs give a hint that he was active in society until he went into samadhi around 7AD. Besides airplane and steamer, Bogar had invented many scientific tools for the welfare of mankind. Personally I am of the opinion that many literary works of Tamil siddhas were not explored in the past and research being restricted to Sanskrit scriptures. With proper approach and research, it can be established that several advanced scientific methodologies were put to use in ancient Bharatham. The third kanto of Sapthakaandam throws light on the technical innovations of the scientist, siddha Bogar. He is the pioneer of many modern tools that are presently used.
Ceramic, SCUBA apparatus, parachute, hot air balloon, plain and tinted glass, mirror, underwater telescope, magnifying lens, spectacle, handmade paper, automatic printing machine, kaleidoscope, dielectric , thermo couple, electroplating, artificial gem etc. are his inventions. Sage Agasthya maharishi embraced and praised him saying ‘Long live my vigyana siddha’. In song 2381, he narrates the secrets of glass making and reflective mirror. After making the plain glass without color tints, he applied hot coat of Lead amalagam on one side. This gave the perfect result of mirror which all siddha rishis welcomed.
‘Treated mercury partially on glass I meticulously made
Saw my bright face on the mirror with perfection as it was;
Siddha rishis thronged to glimpse, praised me for the invention
What is the use of decoration if the beauty is not visible to thy?’
Thus he taught many technical details to Chinese, whom he certifies as ‘innocent and pure’. Other rishis acclaimed that there is no scientist to match his wisdom on earth, as sage Agasthya has certified Bogar as the flying Aathi siddha (though Lord Shiva is the first Aadhi siddha). Bogar had extensively travelled to many continents
Another magnificent work Bogar 12000 is said to contain minute details of nuclear products, fission, fusion; ambrosia for all diseases to occur in kaliyuga, constructing special planes to outer planets, existence of aliens, geo properties of Jupiter and Mars, acoustics, metrology, land survey and other related branches of science and technology. Every Indian should feel proud of the siddhas who had built Bharatham as the most civilized and advanced nation, long before human settlement and civilization began in other parts of the world.
Siddhar Bogar Books/Works in Siddha Medicine:
- போகர் 7000 Bogar 7000
- போகர் ஜெனனசாகரம் Bogar jananasaagaram
- போகர் நிகண்டு 1200 Bogar nigandu 1200
- போகர் நிகண்டு கருக்கிடை Bogar nigandu karukidai
- போகர் நிகண்டு கையெடு Bogar nigandu kaiyedu
- போகர் வைத்திய காவியம் 1000 Bogar vaithiya kaaviyam 1000
- போகர் முனிவர் 700 Bogar 700
- போகர் சரக்கு வைப்பு 800 Bogar sarakku vaippu 800
- போகர் பஞ்சபட்சசாத்திரம் Bogar panchapatchi sathiram
- போகர் கற்பம் 300 Bogar karpam 300
- போகர் வர்மசூத்திரம் 100 Bogar varma soothiram 100
- போகர் மலைவாகடம் Bogar malai vaagadam
- போகர்– 12,000 Bogar 12000
- சப்தகாண்டம்– 7000 saptha kaandam 7000
- போகர் நிகண்டு– 1700 Bogar nigandu 1700
- போகர் வைத்தியம்– 1000 Bogar vaithiyam 1000
- போகர் சரக்குவைப்பு– 800 Bogar sarakku vaippu 800
- போகர் உபதேசம்– 150 Bogar updesam 150
- போகர் இரணவாகடம்– 100 Bogar rana vaagadam 100
- போகர் ஞானசாராம்சம்– 100 Bogar gnanasaaraamsam 100
- போகர் கற்பசூத்திரம்– 54 Bogar karppa soothiram 54
- போகர் வைத்தியசூத்திரம்– 77 Bogar vaithiya soothiram 77
- போகர் முப்புசூத்திரம்– 51 Bogar muppu soothiram 51
- போகர் ஞானசூத்திரம்– 37 Bogar gnana soothiram 37
- போகர் அட்டாங்கயோகம்– 24 Bogar attanga yogam 24
- போகர் பூஜாவிதி– 20 Bogar poojavithi 20
- BOGAR AND NAVAPASHANAM STATUE
- As you may be aware that this temple is famous for the small idol - moolavar (main deity) in the sanctum of the temple. What is so special about this Moolavar idol? At other temples across Tamil Nadu and elsewhere, the idol is either made of Panchaloka - five metals, including copper and gold or of monolithic hard stone, like granite, diorite, etc. Stone represents Panchabootham - five elements of the Earth. Here, the main idol is neither made of metal nor of stone, but of what is called Navapashanam - a term derived from Sanskrit nava+pashanam, meaning ‘nine’ poisonous substances. They are mixed in such a way, it has a good concentration of medicinal properties that can heal all types of ailments. Hence, in the past devotees used to throng the temple to get abisheka water or just a a bit of any abisheka items like sandal water, honey, milk etc., used during anointing.
- Some interesting facts about Navabhashana Idol of Palani Murugan:
- 01. This unique idol of Muruga, a rare one in the whole of India was installed as per Agama Sastra by a great Tamil Sage called Bogar, a disciple of Agasthiyar.
02. It is a hardened herbal idol of great antiquity going as far back as 2500 years!! This Navapashana Abishegamurthy (idol) is a great wonder and there is no right answer to the mystery behind this idol of Bogar.
03. There were 18 famous Tamil Sages called Siddhars. They were great Yogis, Sidha prushas and possessed enormous mystical and spiritual powers one can ever imagine. They were all dedicated to Lord Shiva.
04. Siddhar Bogar who made this Navapashana Murugan idol at Palani was one of the disciples of Kalangi Kanchanamalayan as well who himself was one among 7 disciples of Nandi Devar. Yet another Siddhar Thirumoolar in his devotional hymns made references to Boggar.
05. Why did Boggar make a navapashana idol for worship? Being humane and sympathetic, he was particular about curing man's many ailments that caused them pain and misery. Instead of making separate medicines for each ailment he wanted to come up with something like Panacea - something that can cure anything.
06. Hence Navapashanam - nine poisonous substances is considered as one of the most acclaimed Siddha elixirs or medicinal potion known to mankind. Scientific studies have established the presence of many medicinal properties and their positive effects on the diseases.
07. Bogar used, after long research, innumerable herbs found in the palani hills and made an amalgam of them. In this regard he was assisted by his disciple Pulipani. Since he rode the tiger to go around the forest to collect herbs, he was known by this name (in Tamil Puli means Tiger).
08. It is stated after the demise of Bogar, it was Pulipani who took Bogar's role and engaged in Puja rituals, etc at Palani.
09. It is mentioned that Siddhar Bogar one night had a dream in which Lord Karthikaya (Muruga) himself offered certain suggestions for making an idol of him.
10. Before preparation of this idol for worship, Bogar had a wide discussion with other sages as the idol had to be worshipped as per the kumara thanthra, the pooja protocols devised by the lord Muruga himself.
11. Among his classification of 64 types of poison, 32 can be acquired naturally and the rest - 32 artificially. Among them Bogar carefully chose just nine poisons - Bhasanas to suite the human body and cure the diseases without having any side effects.
12. The nine poisonous substances chosen to make the beads, malai and idols avalaible here are Veeram, Pooram, Rasam, Jathilingam, Kandagam, Gauri pasanam, Vellai Pasanam, Mridharsingh and Silasat.
13. Why did Bogar select Navapashanam to make the idol of Karthikaya? Our life is centred around the solar system consisting of nine planets and Pancha boothams - five essential elements of Earth. When man die, his last breath leaves the mortal body through one of the 9 holes (Dwarams) in our body. This Navapashanam, it is said, protects the important nine important centers in our body that cause the pain and disease.
14. The significant point is the nine poisonous elements were mixed carefully in the right proportion, if not, it will have an adverse effect on the entire amalgam.
15. Though there are different versions as to the preparation of Navapashanam, the correct method followed by Bogar is not yet known. Just relying on the mere conjecture alone will not serve the purpose. Any way, the laborious process involves constant grinding, heating, filtering and finally made into a hard paste.
16. Once the idol is made as planned, it is energised by means of repetitive chanting of several mantras and, it is believed, it imparts divinity to the idol. At the end the idol is endowed with godly stature. In the consecration of Hindu idols, intense concentration of mind, chanting of mantras and complete commitments play primary roles. Only trained people can do it, not others.
17. Navapashanam is a Herbal medicine prepared in a yogic / spiritual process of amalgamation in a particular proportion with cosmic energy by Siddhar Bogar.
18. It is believed to influence 01. Five koshas, 02. Nava grahas and 03. the Panchaboothas of humans. Most importantly it nullifies the bad effect of some planetary positions on humans. That a single medicinal preparation offers remedy to so many diseases is a fact that can never be denied.
19. According to the temple Devasthanam abhishekams, (anointing) is conducted six times a day (since 1984), with clean materials. This has been done for centuries to improve the longevity of the idol. it is also stated that there are two other similar idols near the Bogar Samadhi (tomb) close to the sanctum (Srikovil / grabagraha) in the hill temple.
20. In early days Milk and Panchamirtha abishkam was done over the idol and the prasad that touched the Navapashana idol was distributed among the devotees to cure any diseases - physical or mental.
21. Rakkala santhanam - the sandal paste placed on the idol overnight is considered a great healer and was widely popular in the past.
22. Since 1980s abhishekams, and purification with liquids and fluids, have been limited to basic minimum as the original idol was ageing and developed minor cracks.
23. Recently an attempt was made to replace the original idol with the golden one and it was met with stiff resistance by the public. On top of it, the media brought to light certain irregularities over the preparation of second idol and its metal composition; its gold content became a serious issue. The sthapathy (idol maker) and his cohorts - government employees are facing police enquiry.
24. On January 25, 2004, 200 kg metal idol of God Muruga was installed in the sanctum and few months later it was removed.
25. It is reported an attempt was made by certain dishonest people to sell the original idol made by Yogi Bogar abroad for a huge sum - millions of dollars and a metal idol was to be installed instead using the pretext that Bogar's idol had to to be replaced as it became damaged.
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