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Transformation of his physical body (talking about boganathar history)

Bhogar decided to overcome the limitations of the Chinese body,with its degenerative tendencies, and prolong its life through the use of thekaya kalpa herbs long enough for the effect of Kriya Kundalini Pranayama andrelated yogic techniques to bring swarupa samadhi. In his poem BhogarJñana Sutra 8, verse number 4, he describes vividly what happened after carefully preparing a tablet using thirty five different herbs:

With great care and patience Imade the (kaya kalpa) tablet and then swallowed it:
Not waiting for fools andskeptics who would not appreciate its hidden meaning and importance.
Steadily I lived in the land of the parangis (foreigners) For twelve thousand years, my fellow!
I lived for a long time and fedon the vital ojas (sublimated spiritual energy)
With the ojas vindhu I received the name, Bhogar:
The body developed the golden color of the pill:
Now I am living in a world of gold
(based upontranslation by Yogi S.A.A. Ramaiah, 1979, p. 40-42).

He chose three of his best disciples and his faithful dog, and took thorn to the top of a mountain. After first offering atablet to the dog, the dog immediately fell over dead. He next offered it to his leading disciple, Yu, who also immediately fell over dead. After offeringit to the two remaining disciples, who by this time were extremely nervous, andwho promptly hid their tablets rather than swallow them, Bhoganathar swallowed the remaining tablets and also fell over unconscious. Crying with grief, the two remaining disciples went down the mountain to get material to bury the bodies. When the disciples returned to the spot where the bodies hadbeen left lying, all that was found was a note, in Bhoganathar’s handwriting, which said:

The kaya kalpa tablets are working. After awakening from their trance I restored faithful Yu and the dog. You have missed your chance for immortality. (Ibid.)

This kaya kalpa enabled Bhoganathar to transform the Chinese body over a period of 12,000 years, during which time it developed a lustrous golden color. (The physiological transformation to thestate of swarupa samadhi was, however, completed only later, at Palani in the final phases of Kriya Kundalini Yoga and related practices. Thesephases will be described in chapter 11. Bhoganathar’s own graphic description is recorded in the poem at the end of this chapter Initiation into Samadhi.)

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