Matsyodari Yoga

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Dear Yoga abhinavas,

 

 

Matsyodarî yoga

 

 

Instead of flowing from north to south, the Ganga in Banaras flows northwards (Uttaravahini), i.e. returns towards her own source, making this the most sacred of cities. Bhairava arrived in Banaras during the Matsyodarî yoga, a rare phenomenon that occurred only during an exceptionally heavy rainy season. The Gangâ used to reverse the flow of the Varunâ river and of its seasonal

tributary the Matsyodarî in such a way that the whole town was encircled within her womb, turning this city of light into the primordial mound of archaic cosmogony.

 

 

 

It was during this rare but exceedingly auspicious “Fish-Womb Conjunction” (Matsyodarî-yoga), when the Gangâ itself became the Fish-Womb, that Bhairava plunged into the waters of Kapâlamocana originally situated at the confluence of the Matsyodarî and the backward-flowing Mother Gangâ. The Omkâra temple on its hillock on the banks of the former Kapâlamocana at the heart of the sacred city was transformed by this primeval deluge into an island, just like its prototype, the Omkâra jyortirlinga of Central India in the middle of the sacred Narmadâ River.

 

 

 

The (royal) sacrificer too emerged from the amniotic waters of a pool at the end of the dîkshâ during the Açvamedha while discharging the impurity of death and evil onto a scapegoat. The brahmanicide Bhairava’s absolution in Banaras is clearly modeled on the Vedic dîkshâ.

 

 

Yours yogically,

Shreeram Balijepalli

 

 

 

 

 

Purity, Powers, Parabrahmam...

 

 

 

 

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