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GADDI DARGAH TILLA SHRI GURU GORAKH NATH MANDIR
SHRI NATH NAGAR, AMBALA CITY, HARYANA, INDIA.
GORAKHNATH WHO?
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SIDDHA is a person who can control the forces of Nature. He can work miracles.
For instance, he can fly in the air, walk on water, make gold out of mud, and such other things. He knows the past, present and future. He does it all by exercising his yogic powers. One acquires these powers by long practice of the discipline of yoga. One who practices Yoga is called a Yogi. Matsyendranath was such a Siddha or Yogi.Even today he worshipped in Nepal as God Himself.God Siva taught Matsyendranath the secrets of Yoga.
Matsyendranath used to beg for a little good at some house or other. He ate whatever he got. At other times he went into lonely forests and practised Yoga. One day as usual he went a house and asked for alms.
The lady of the house came out. Seeing that he was a Yogi, the woman said: "Holy Sir, shall we have a child at all?"
Matsyendranath gave her a little sacred ash and said: "O lady, please swallow this. You will be blessed with a child."
The
lady told her neighbour. The neighbour said: "Do not believe these Yogis.
Some of them are cheats!" So the lady of the house threw the sacred ash
away on a rubbish heap at the back of her house, and forgot all about it.
After twelve years, Matsyendranath called at the same house. He asked the lady: "How is your child doing?"
The lady told him what had happened. Matsyendranath asked for her: "Where did you throw the ash?"
She pointed: "There, on the rubbish heap.
"Matsyendranath went to where the rubbish was, and prayed for a while. Then he called: "Son, come here!" From out of the heap came a boy of twelve years.
Seeing him, the lady fell at the feet of the Yogi and begged for forgiveness.
Matsyendranath took the boy away with him.
This boy was Gorakhnath.
"Go’ is Sanskrit means earth. ‘Rakh’ means to protect. Since the earth protected the boy, he was called Gorakhnath.