Maha Yogi Gorakhnath

Pranams at the lotus feet of Gorakhnath Maharaj!

Chapter - 9

Once Gorakhnath arrived at Jwaladhevi shrine on a Makara Sankranthi day, she asked him to remain his guest for the day.  Gorakshanath revealed his desire to consume Kicchadi as a meal, he put forward a condition, he will bring the rice received as alms for cooking Kicchadi, he conducted journey for receiving alms and arrived on the river banks of Airavathi in Gorakhpur, he started meditating on the beautiful river bank, after this incident people started offering Kicchadi on the Makara Sankranthi day to attain the blessings of Gorakhnath Maharaj.

The famous composition “Gorakhvijay” describes an incident, once Baba Gorakhnath was meditating under the Bahula tree, he realized Siddh Krishna path was traveling on the sky route, Baba Gorakhnath brought Siddha Krishna path on the Earth with his Manthrasiddhi, Krishna path said “ You are meditating here, your preceptor Guru Mathsyendhranathji is in Kadhali Van taking immense pleasure in the association of thousands and six hundred women and Maharani Kamala and Mangala, he completely forgot his personality and wisdom, he has three days left to live on Earth,”  Baba Gorakhnath said “ Your preceptor’s condition is really bad, King of Gaud Gopichand imprisoned your preceptor and he is suffering hellish torture in the prison,”  These two holy men after knowing the pathetic state of their preceptor rushed to their places.  Goraknath with his disciple Lang and Mahalang, assumed the form of a twice-born and arrived in Kadhalivan.  Seeing the charming appearance of Gorakhnath, one of the servants in the royal palace fallen in love, she informed him that Mathsyendhranathji is in the palace, but none of the men are allowed to go inside the palace.  At that moment, a group of dancer girls was going towards the palace; he assumed the form of a woman dancer and followed them to the assembly hall.   Gorakhnath informed his purpose of arrival through the sounds of percussion to Mathsyendhranathji, and requested to leave the association of women and sensual pleasures.  Mathsyendhranathiji realized his disciple Goraknath and both of them disappeared from the Kadhali province, they traveled through the sky route and arrived in Girinath Mountain, there was a hermitage where Mathsyendhranathji was present and he was surrounded by disciples, Goraknath was awestruck at the sight, disciples said Guruji is living here for several years now, it is believed that in order to destroy the ego of his disciple Mathsyendhranathji played a drama in Kadhali Province.