How I Contacted Siddhar Thirumoolar
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(See sanskrit transliteration scheme)
In February 2005, I took initiation into Level-1 of Babaji’s Kriya Yoga and in April 2005, into Level-2. In Level-2, we were given a list of names of siddhas (meaning, “perfected beings”) and deities—all are infinite intelligences—and we were told the qualities of each intelligence. We were asked to choose based on what resonated with us and what qualities we wanted to invoke within ourselves, at that time. We got initiated into one mantra of our choice from that list. When they described the list, one of the descriptions was about siddhar tirumUlar (from now on I will use the more popular spelling and form, “Thirumoolar”). However, I did not take that mantra at that time, instead I got attracted to the mantra of Lord Muruga (also known as, skanda, kArtikEya, kumara, sanat kumara and subramanya). He is also known as, “The Lord of Siddhas.”
Few months passed. Around early June 2005, I happened to be at my friend’s (he is also my music teacher) place, as he was giving a lecture-demonstration on Ayurvedic cooking. (yummy!) When we were all eating, he started talking to somebody and I happened to be nearby. I overheard him talk about how he got a message from Thirumoolar to do an internet search for a certain, “51 syllable Siva mantra,” so he can practice and teach to his music students. He had not started to teach that mantra, yet. This time, I strangely got attracted to the name “Siddhar Thirumoolar.” But, I did not ask about it. I felt, if I needed it, I would surely get it somehow. After that I forgot about it completely.
A couple of days later, I started to get this urge to find this mantra. I thought that I was just making it up. So, I ignored it. I kept getting this thought constantly. One week passed. I was just seeing, if that was just a random thought and would pass. But, it was not, and I could not resist it any longer. So, I googled, the terms, “51 syllable Siva mantra Thirumoolar.” The first site that popped up was, Thirumoolar’s Siva Yoga site. Here, I found the following mantra (also available in Tirumandiram
Om
Si va ya na ma
ya na va Si ma
ma va ya na Si
Si ya na ma va
va Si ma ya na
Om
For further details on this mantra and Siva yoga, visit the site. I practiced this mantra for about five minutes everyday, with the intent of contacting Siddhar Thirumoolar. Barely a week had passed. Then, on July 10, 2005, I had the following vision. I am quoting my journal entry below, with a few grammatical and spelling corrections.
Contact with Siddhar Thirumoolar (July 10, 2005)
Early this morning, I had a profound awakening from sleep. I didn’t know, if I was dreaming or awake. I saw red lasers emitting from my third eye. At the other end of the rays, there was a figure the half the size of my little finger. The figure was burning red surrounded by intense flames the color of the sun. I couldn’t make out who that was.
The figure said, “Your third eye is open and I want to enter.”
My head was already feeling burning hot from the flames from the figure.
I asked, “Who are you? Why should I let you in?”
Then, the figure said, “I am Thirumoolar and I want to help you.”
To that I said, “I surrender. Please help me.”
At that moment I saw my forehead split open. For a brief period I saw a bearded man in that opening. My head became unbearably hot. But, I was not afraid at all.
Then, the scene changed. I saw myself climbing the stairs in our home. My wife was coming down.
She asked, “Why are you like that?”
I replied, “Thirumoolar entered me. I am going to the pooja (meditation) room. I will talk to you after that.”
Then, the scene changed again. I found myself in Tiruchanoor (my native place in India). My father, my uncle and several other elders were sitting in a circle with piles of papers in front of them.
I asked, “What is all this?”
My father answered, “We are translating scriptures in Tamil to English.”
I nodded.
I was about leave and my father asked, “I forgot your guru’s name. What is it?”
I smiled and said, “Thirumoolar.” I left the room.
The vision ended there and no more after that.
In the morning, I was contemplating, if Kriya Babaji arranged for me to meet Siddhar Thirumoolar. A voice arose in me that said, “Obey Thirumoolar. He is also your guru.” I said to myself, “Okay.” The contemplation ended there.
Siddhar Thirumoolar is full of divine love and compassion. He is fiery in nature, like the brilliant sun, burning away the darkness of ignorance in me.
In few days after I got this vision, I received a message to get initiated into Siva yoga offered from the website mentioned above. As of writing this article, I have been initiated into and practicing Step-4.
I hope this article serves as an inspiration to any of you who are interested in contacting the great Siddhar Thirumoolar to ask for help on your path to self-mastery, enlightenment and ascension. Great ascended masters like him are available all around us to guide us in our quest for Truth.
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- Albert Foong—The Urban Monk. You can read great articles like, The Value of Cooperation in Achieving Success.
- Anmol Mehta—The Meditation Master. On his blog you can learn meditations like, Prosperity & Infinite Energy Meditation Technique - Free Guided Meditation Book for Daily Practice - Ch 5.
- My recent find: Shift Your Spirits—Slade Roberson. Here you can read insightful articles such as, How Do Your Spirit Guides Respond to You?.
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January 19th, 2008 at 3:22 am
Thank you so much for the link, Desika! Anmol and Slade are fantastic blogs, I’ve been reading them for quite a while now, and I’m honored to be listed with them.
January 19th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Hey Albert,
You are very welcome! Anmol’s and yours have been my favorite blogs for a while, and finding Slade’s blog has been a bonus blessing for me.
Cheers,
Desika
January 19th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Thank you for the link to my site and the kind words here in the comments. It means more to me than you know!
January 19th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Hi Slade,
It is great that I found your blog. Your blog answered some questions that I had lately. It meant a lot to me.
Cheers,
Desika
January 26th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
So glad to find your site through Slade’s blog … I really enjoyed this post (and stumbled it! hee hee) and am looking forward to more as a brand-new subscriber.
Blessings,
Andrea
January 27th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Hi Andrea,
Thanks a lot for visiting and commenting. Thanks for the stumble.
I have been reading your blog as well–thanks to Slade for introducing me to your blog.
Cheers,
Desika
January 29th, 2008 at 1:14 am
Came across your blog for the first time. You have a very inspiring blog. Will be back for more..
Sham
January 29th, 2008 at 5:27 am
Desika: Congratulations on your Divine Experience…you have indeed been blessed by a self-realized soul who will now guide you in many ways, and you will indeed help others in their journey. Best Wishes to you from Sunny Florida, USA. Cheers/Namaste, Keith Johnson
January 29th, 2008 at 8:16 am
To Sham:
Thank you very much for your appreciation. You have a very nice blog as well.
To Keith:
Thank you very much for your wishes and blessings. Mantra yoga has always been one of my interests. We seem to share that interest.
I am glad that you both visited me and left your website links for me to read your articles.
Thanks,
-Desika
February 7th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Hey Desika,
Simply amazing experience you had here. The mysteries of the Universe are really infinite. Would love to get my hands on that journal of yours, sure seems like some seriously interesting reading :-D.
Thanks for the link love, and love all the blogs you have mentioned above too… great stuff.
Cheers,
Anmol
February 12th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Hi Anmol,
Thanks buddy! Once you read my journal, you may think it is “just serious” and “not seriously interesting” as you previously thought!
-Desika
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:19 am
I followed your comment from Slade’s blog. Thanks for sharing this exciting experience with us. I will be reading more of your articles.
February 25th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Patricia,
Thank you very much for your appreciation. I am looking forward to more of your participation on my blog. I greatly appreciate all the feedback I get.
-Desika
March 9th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
This is interesting but also disturbing, how can one be sure the entity coming into the third eye
is who it says it is and is not something trying to feed the ego? Why are people calling this mantra a 51 lettered mantra, there are only 5 letters to the mantra, and they are repeated in 5 different ways adding up to 25 + 1 Om letters. For anyone that knows basic maths that would make this a 26 lettered mantra! In that case, anyone who knows how to add up will understand this is only half of the 51 lettered mantra and another 5 lined variant of nama sivaaya exists and Thirumoolar has left it up to the devotee to find the other permutations in his Thirumandiram and put them together to make the full 51 letters either that or he is giving a clue that namasivaya is in all 51 petals of the chakras and whose nature is no different from the 51 Sanskrit letters. It seems Master Thirumoolar doesn’t give everything away so easily, but at least he is generous enough to have given half! So please call this one the 26 lettered Mantra. Jai Thirumoolar!
March 10th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Dear Anandakantha,
Thanks for your comment.
My experiences with Siddhar Thirumoolar go beyond words that are used in this article. In the article, though egotistically I asked the question, “Who are you?” I knew instinctively it was Siddhar Thirumoolar even before he answered my question, and therefore I cannot attribute it to any other entity. I cannot convince you either way, and I cannot satisfy everybody’s ego. I consider Siddhar Thirumoolar as my spiritual elder brother (per his request) and also as an aspect of my higher self. The joy and love I feel in his presence cannot be expressed in words.
If you had read my article carefully, you would have noticed that I did not say it was, “51 lettered” mantra, I said it was “51 syllable” mantra. In each letter there are actually two sounds, for example, in “na” there are “n” and “aa,” and that sound originates from two different parts of the body.
You are right that Thirumoolar meant that every one of 51 sanskrit letters is infused with Siva.
That said, I don’t mind calling the mantra a 26 lettered mantra, 51 lettered mantra, Siva matra, Thirumoolar’s siva mantra or even Anandakantha’s siva mantra. I am sure that Siddhar wouldn’t mind it. I don’t believe that a finite name can capture the infinite.
Ego gets inflated when we start fighting over semantics, rather than focusing on what the mantra and Siddhar are pointing to.
Cheers,
Desika
March 10th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Desika,
It was an attempt to help you figure out the true 51 lettered Mantra but it seems Master Thirumoolar has come to our aid. No semantics don’t have to inflate the ego, but they can clarify it, for what is the Thiramandiram but the purest explanation of the divine semantics of Saiva Siddhantha?
Here is the full 51 lettered Mantra pranayam and you can republish it here if you like as such:
1 + OM (inhale silently thinking OM)
Exhale say or sing: SI VA YA NA MA
forwards: evolution YA NA VA SI MA
25 letters MA VA YA NA SI
SI YA NA MA VA
VA SI MA YA NA
+
backwards NA YA MA SI VA
Involution VA MA NA YA SI
25 letters SI NA YA VA MA
MA SI VA NA YA
MA NA YA VA SI
= 51 Lettered Mantra of Thirumoolar, so he gave everything for those that have eyes to see and here he is giving it for all eyes to see! SIVAYANAMA!!!!! His grace is infinite! Enjoy the nrithya of Siva’s yoga.
Jai Thirumoolar!!!
March 10th, 2008 at 11:28 am
P.S. yes you said 51 syllabled but in the Thirumandiram it is translated as 51 lettered mantra, either way can be seen to be right.
March 10th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Siva’s name is meant to encompass the infinite:
Sa = illumination of Peace
i = Causal Body
va = Union with the Infinite
March 10th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Dear Desika,
While you may not believe that a “finite name can capture the infinite,” you must realise that this is the express purpose of Siva’s name: Sa = Ilumination of Peace, i = causal body, Va = Union with the Infinite.
March 10th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Dear AnandaKantha,
Thank you for eliciting a different pranayama technique using the same mantra.
Thirumoolar is amazing in his vast knowledge of yoga techniques and he seems to know what each person needs for his/her evolution and give very specific techniques tailored to each one.
I am very thankful to you for discussing the mantra here. I am sure that visitors of this page will immensely benefit from your explanation.
BTW, I only said that “arguing” about semantics inflates the ego, and not the semantics themselves.
Thank you again.
-Desika
March 10th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
It is a great priveledge to share the knowledge on this page that came as a result of inquiry. This questioning is designed to pierce the intrinsic meaning eluded to in the literature, and reveal the hidden 26 letters obtained by reversing the first, which thankfully divine intelligence graciously revealed. If we can think of the right questions, sometimes we find the right answers
I am very grateful to you for making this page on Thirumoolar that allowed such inquiry to arise and to be spontaneously answered. 51 syllables are dancing in Siva’s bliss. I invite you to try it, if you are so inclined and see how it works.
-A
March 10th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Dear AnandaKantha,
I again express my deep gratitude to you for sharing your knowledge on this page. I believe that Thirumoolar brought you to this page, so I can gain more insights. I appreciate your participation and I hope to see you sharing more of your wisdom on these pages in the future.
Thanks again,
Desika
April 7th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Dear Desika
A very nice elucidation of ones experience without reservations. Truly, articles like this will help those seeking enlightenment to dig deep into their vast realm and capture the Grace destined to each
Cheers
April 10th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Dear Parthasarathy,
Thank you very much for your thoughtful comment. It is my sincere hope that articles on this site are helpful to seekers on their way to freedom.
Thanks and I hope to see you more on this site.
- Desika
April 27th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Dear desika Nadadur,
While searching for Thirumoolar the great sage, Gurudev and the disciple of My great celestial master, Nandikeshwara I landed on your page. Long ago when i wanted to practice babaji’s Kriya yoga I requested for blessings from My Gurudev and he had replied to me to go for shiva yoga. Your article is thought provoking and revealing. I had my gurudev’ s blessings through Naadi leaves and now when i read about shiva yoga i wanted to get initiated into it.Kindly guide me in this regard. let your spiritual experience enlighten the uninitiated!!
ravee
April 27th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Dear Ravee,
Siva Yoga initiation is given by Sivakami Om Anandi. This is the same link I provided in this article. You can practice the 51 syllable mantra and the Soham meditation technique given in the introductory page at that site. Those two are prerequisites for the advanced techniques. After you practice these for a while (it is necessary that you memorize the 51 syllable mantra for latter techniques) you can contact Sivakami Om Anandi for advanced Siva Yoga techniques by filling in an application form on that site. She is very helpful in answering questions and giving guidance. I have found these techniques to be very powerful in elevating my consciousness.
Please let me know, if I can be of further assistance.
Love and Light (LnL),
- Desika