- S.Chandrasekar
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. It is a hilly terrain and
abode of Lord Shiva that is equally respected as Mount Kailash. Sathuragri is situated 10 km from Watrap in Srivilliputur taluk of Tamilnadu. It is here that Bogar, a goldsmith, had
learnt the secrets of alchemy and elixir from his guru Kalaangi who is believed
to be one among the Navanath siddhas.
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
of 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 described 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. The basic shape of the temple Rathas of South
India is shown here. It is understood he used black magnets to improve
electromagnetic force in flight dynamics.
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, stewarded my way 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 successfully he explored and tested
the voice synthesis of oral command as instructed by Maharishi Ashwini.
‘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.
‘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
the world through Gevuna siththi mode.
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 Tamil 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.
(This essay was contributed to Canada (Ontario) based 'Sanskriti' magazine that speaks about Indian Culture, Heritage, Achievements, Practices and Values.)
