Kaadsiddheshwar
# Kaadsiddheshwar

Shri Samarth Muppin Kaadsiddheswar Maharaj (23 April 1905 – 16 August 2001) was a guru in the Navnath tradition of Hindu philosophy. He was a disciple of Shri Samarth Siddharameshwar Maharaj, disciple of Shri Samarth Bhausaheb Maharaj, disciple of Shri Gurulingajangam Maharaj (Shri Nimbargi Maharaj), disciple of the 22nd Shri Samarth Muppin Kaadsiddheswar Maharaj.

## Biography

Kaadsiddheswar was born on April 23, 1905 (Chaitra Sankashti day) in Linganoor village, Kolhapur district, Maharashtra state, India. His father's name was Shaigauda Patil, and he was named Jaigauda Patil. His living descendant is Indumati Magdum (daughter of his real sister). Indumati is 85 and lives with her son Sanjeev, daughter in law Jayashree and grand daughter Krupa in Nagala Park, Kolhapur.

He was formally adopted by the 25th Virupaksha Kaadeshwar of the Kaneri Math, Lingayat Parampara, and invested as the 26th Mathadheepati of the (Siddhagiri) Kaneri Math, Lingayat Parampara, in 1922 at the age of 17.

He was a master in yoga and mastered all the difficult asanas, such as the Kumbhak, which he could maintain for nine minutes. He would meditate for over ten hours a day, and from 1922 to 1935 he mastered all aspects of the Hindu spiritual tradition and philosophy.

He met his philosophical and spiritual guru, Siddharameshwar, in 1935. He was given a new outlook on the deep philosophical concepts and attained self-realization, or Gyan Drishti. He taught that concepts of sects and religions are an illusion and that everything is unified. To realize this unity is the simplest form of Vidnyani Avastha.

## The Kaadsiddheshwar Parampara

Shri Samarth Revannath (c. 1112 CE), one of the Navnath Parampara (The Nine Teachers) in the Indian Teacher-Disciple tradition, is considered the founder and the first Kaadsiddheshwar. He established the Kaadsiddheshwar temple and math at Kanheri village in Karveer tehsil, Kolhapur district, Maharashtra state, India. The Kaadsiddheshwar Peeth is also the main Kuldaivat (Dynastic Gods/Teachers) of the Lingayat Shaiva community. Shri Muppin Kaadsiddheswar Maharaj the 26th Mathaadheepati of this tradition from 1922 to 2001.

### Siddhagiri Math (Kaneri Math)

The Siddhagiri Math was established around the Moola-Kaadsiddheswar Shiva temple in the Shaiva-Lingayat tradition. It is a vast campus with the central Shiva temple, Adhyatmik Center, and a complex of halls for discussions, residential hostels for devotees, and adjacent farms. About 1200 villages in the area are devoted to the Kaadsiddheswar Parampara.

### Inchegiri Sampradaya

Kaadsiddheshwar's guru Siddharameshwar belonged to the Inchegiri Sampradaya, a Navnath/Lingayat sampradaya which is strongly influenced by the Sant Mat and the Deshastha Brahmin caste, to which the thirteenth century Varkari saint and philosopher Dnyaneshwar belonged, the 16th century sant Eknath, and the 17th century saint and spiritual poet Samarth Ramdas.

vteInchegeri Sampradaya :

Rishi Dattatreya

Navnath, the nine founders of the Nath Sampradaya,

Gahininath, the 5th Navnath

Revananath, the 7th or 8th Navnath, also known as Kada Siddha

Siddhagiri Math c.q. Kaneri Math (est. 7th or 14th century; Lingayat Parampara c.q. Kaadasiddheshwar Parampara

Nivruttinath, Dnyaneshwar's brother

Dnyaneshwar (1275–1296) also known as Sant Jñāneshwar or Jñanadeva and as Kadasiddha or Kad-Siddheshwar Maharaj

Different accounts:

Kadasiddha, also called "Almighty "Kadsiddeshwar", who appeared as a vision to Sri Gurulingajangam Maharaj

or

The 22nd or 24th Shri Samarth Muppin Kaadsiddheswar Maharaj, who initiated Sri Gurulingajangam Maharaj

or

"The 25th generation of the kadsiddha at siddhagiri had then initiated Guruling jangam maharaj of nimbargi."

or

"Juangam Maharaj" c.q. "a yogi [at Siddhagiri] who gave [Nimabargi Maharaj] a mantra and told him to meditate regularly on it"

1

Nimbargi Maharaj (1789–1875) also known as Guru Lingam-Jangam Maharaj

23rd Shri Samarth Muppin Kaadsiddheswar Maharaj

2

Shri Bhausaheb Maharaj Umdikar (1843 Umdi – 1914 Inchgiri)

24th Shri Samarth Muppin Kaadsiddheswar Maharaj

3

Shri Amburao Maharaj of Jigjivani

(1857 Jigajevani – 1933 Inchgiri)

Shivalingavva Akka (1867–1930)

Girimalleshwar Maharaj

Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj (1875–1936)

25th Shri Samarth Muppin Kaadsiddheswar Maharaj

4

Shri Gurudev Ranade of Nimbal (1886–1957)

Balkrishna Maharaj

Shri Aujekar Laxman Maharaj

Madhavananda Prabhuji (d. 25th May, 1980)

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981)

Sri Ranjit Maharaj (1913–2000)

Sri Ganapatrao Maharaj Kannur (1909–2004)

Shri Vilasanand Maharaj (1909–1993)

Shri Ranachhodray Maharaj, Baitkhol Karwar

26th Shri Muppin Kaadsiddheshwar Maharaj (1905–2001)

Student of Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj

5

Shri Gurudev Chandra Bhanu Pathak

Bhausaheb Maharaj (Nandeshwar)

Shri Nagnath Alli Maharaj

Maurice Frydman

Ramesh Balsekar

Gautam Sachdeva

Ramakant Maharaj

Alexander Smit

Douwe Tiemersma

Robert Powell

Timothy Conway

Jean Dunn

Mark McCloskey

"Sailor" Bob Adamson

Stephen Wolinksky

Mark West

David Hargrove

27th head: Adrushya Kadsiddheshwar Swamiji

Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Shree Swami Narendracharyaji Maharaj

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Notes

↑ Frydman 1987↑ Boucher↑ Frydman 1987↑ Dnyaneshwar↑ Frydman 1987↑ Frydman 1987↑ Boucher↑ Kada Siddha (website Ranade Maharaj↑ Kada Siddha (website Ranade Maharaj)↑ Siddhagiri Math↑ Siddhagiri Math (website Shri Kshetra Siddhagiri Math, Kaneri)↑ Siddhagiri Math (Gramjivan Museum)↑ Kaadsiddheshwar Maharaj (website Kaadsiddheshwar Maharaj)↑ Kaadsiddheshwar Maharaj Parampara↑ Dnyaneshwar↑ Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples↑ Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples↑ Frydman 1987↑ Boucher↑ Frydman 1987↑ Ranjit Maharaj Timeline↑ Ranjit Maharaj Timeline↑ Siddhagiri Math (website siddhagirimath.org)↑ Siddhagiri Math (website siddhagirimath.org)↑ Kada Siddha (website Balkrushna Maharaj)↑ Boucher↑ Boucher↑ Nimbargi Maharj (website Ranade Maharaj↑ Frydman 1987↑ Boucher↑ Bhausaheb Maharaj (website Ganapatrao Maharj)↑ Bhausaheb Maharaj (website Ranade Maharaj)↑ Amburao Maharaj (website Ranade Maharaj)↑ Frydman 1987↑ Shivalingavva Akka (website Ranade Maharaj)↑ Frydman 1987↑ Girimalleshwar Maharaj (website Balkrushnamauli Maharaj)↑ Boucher↑ Frydman 1987↑ Amburao Maharaj Maharj (website Ranade Maharaj)↑ Ranade Maharaj (website Ranade Maharaj)↑ Boucher↑ Frydman 1987↑ Ranade Maharj (website Bridge-India)↑ Balkrishna Maharaj (website Balkrishna Maharaj)↑ Nagnath Alli Maharaj (website)↑ Madhavananda Prabhuji (website gurusfeet.com)↑ Boucher↑ Boucher↑ Ranjit Maharaj (website Ranjit Maharaj)↑ Ranjit Maharaj Interview↑ Ranjit Maharaj Satsang↑ Bhausaheb Maharaj (website Ganapatrao Maharaj)↑ Kaadsiddheshwar Maharaj (website Kaadsiddheshwar Maharaj)↑ Ranjit Maharaj (website Angelfire)↑ Bhausaheb Maharaj (Nandeshwar) (website Balkrishna Maharaj)↑ Nagnath Alli Maharaj (website Nagnath Alli Maharaj)↑ Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples↑ Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples↑ Gautam Sachdeva↑ Ramakant Maharj (website Ramakant Maharaj)↑ Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples↑ Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples↑ Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples↑ Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples↑ Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples↑ Jean Dunn (website Ed Muzika)↑ Jean Dunn (website Ngeton)↑ Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples↑ Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples↑ Sailor Bob Adamson (website Sailor Bob Adamson)↑ Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples↑ Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples↑ Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples↑ Siddhagiri Math – History (website siddhagirimath.org↑ Narendracharyaji Maharaj (website Narendracharyaji Maharaj)

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Balkrishna Maharaj (website Balkrishna Maharaj): balkrushnamauli.com, Samarth Sadguru Balkrushna Maharaj

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Jean Dunn (website Ngeton): Ngeton, Navnath Masters

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Ranjit Maharaj (website Angelfire): Sri Ranjit Maharaj profile

Sailor Bob Adamson (website Sailor Bob Adamson): Sailor Bob Adamson website

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## His Contribution to the Hindu Spiritual Philosophy

Kaadsiddheswar worked extensively with poor laborers and farmers. He gave extensive discourses on Hindu philosophy and the right way to live, which would lead him to Gyan Drishti and Vignayni Avastha. His main focus was to live his life fully while understanding that the world is an illusion, or Maya. Realizing this is considered Gyan Drishti, literally knowledge and vision, and living according to this concept is to be in Vignayni Avastha.

He renovated the Kaneri Math and renamed it Siddhagiri Math. He constructed a 42 ft tall idol of a meditating Shiva with an equally massive Nandi, built halls and hostels for devotees, started a school with a hostel for poor, underprivileged students on the Math campus, and started an old-age home there.

He revitalized the pravachans (discourses) organized in the Siddhagiri Math. These were organized on every full moon and on every major Hindu religious occasion, like the Sharavan Month, the Navratri and Ramnavmi. However, the largest pravachans were organized on the three-day festival around Maha Shivarati day (February–March), where over 50,000 lakh devotees have been recorded at the Siddhagiri Math.

He also established maths in Mumbai, Mahabaleshwar, Khopi-Pedambe, Amurteshwar-Satara, Pune and elsewhere. Discourses were organized in these centers of philosophy regularly. They were delivered in the Marathi language and were very simple to understand. They mainly focused on the concept of "Aham Brahmasmi" ("I am Brahma"). Brahma is a complex word with several layers of meaning, including universe, soul, eternity, timelessness and nothingness. His constant teaching was "Ghabru Nakos" ("Do not fear" in Marathi) and "Soham" ("That Itself is Me"). He propagated the Shrimad Dasbodh, a book by Samarth Ramdas, as the basic and simplest book on philosophy. During His discourses, he would often quote the Mahāvākyas.

## Books

He wrote mainly in Marathi.

* Aachar va Parmartha (Behavior and The Right Way)
* Parmartha va Japanustha (The Right way and the Chanting of Mantras)
* Parmartha va Satkarma (The Right Way and Correct Actions)
* Parmartha va Swadharma (The Right Way and Self Philosophy)
* Dharma Parampara, Rudhi va Parmartha (The tradition of Right, Traditions and The Right Way)
* Maza Europe cha Daura – (My Travels to Europe)

He also wrote several essays on philosophy, mainly for the quarterly magazine Siddhagiri Sandesh (Message from Siddhagiri), published from 1964.

