The Scrolls, essays, and poems of Shri Gurudev Mahendranath.
The Scrolls of Mahendranath
The sixteen writings that form The Scrolls of Mahendranath.
Notes on Pagan India
Pagan India as one current: Veda, Yoga, Vedanta, Tantra. Householder and renunciate paths, Dattatreya, the Nath revival under Matsyendranath and Gorakhnath.
The Yoga Vidya of Immortality
The Adinath stream: suffering from a wrong stance toward the world, not from the world. Nivritti, Dattatreya as Adi-Guru, a hard word against monastery and modern yoga-as-exercise.
The Pathless Path to Immortality
Dattatreya as the type of the pathless path. Digambara, and the three working terms pratibha, sahaja, samarasa.
The Magick Path of Tantra
Tantra as a life. Meditation, breath, and the trained sexual rite; Pagala Baba; the three super faculties.
Twilight Yoga I Ecstasy, Equipoise, and Eternity
The INO’s first charter: svecchachara, the four keywords, and release from karmas, kleshas, and conditioning.
Twilight Yoga II The Magnum Opus of Twilight Yoga
The work itself: will and imagination against the KKK matrix. Twilight as the hour of the sitting.
Twilight Yoga III Esoterikos Orgia Mysterion
The Alpha Ovule, and five rites: Birth, Phallos, Worship, Weirdglow, Death.
The Londinium Temple Strain
London as a working site. The zonule, the Guardian (Umbra) Spirit, a childhood daimon, and a note on Crowley.
Levogyrate Tantra
A Kaula teaching-story from Kailash: the left-turning path, Lalita, the mantra HRIM SHRIM KRIM.
The Tantra of Blowing the Mind
Nine centers, bindu, and sexual joy as the spark for Kundalini Shakti. Iccha, Jnana, Kriya.
The Prophetikos
A prospectus for the Aquarian stretch: Phaeton’s tablets, spiral magick, “the will to love is the law to live.”
The Master Pattern of the Nath Order
How a Nath is to sit and think. An “invisible screen” against polluted thought; the five kleshas named.
The Organum of the Magnum Opus
Precepts for a magickal life: harm almost never, the Guardian Spirit, experiment, peace-freedom-happiness as the aim.
Song of the Dreamtime Snake
Verse. Cities burned back to forest; Shiva–Shakti; a Pagan remnant.
Ashes of the Book
Verse. Realization over speculation. The book burned at the root.
The Ultimate Promulgation & Pronunciamento of H.H. Shri Gurudev Mahendranath
Guru Purnima, 18 July 1989. He steps back. Kapilnath is named Imperator Magus Mundi.
The Poems of Mahendranath
The Cosmic Substance
OM as the air under the birds — present, ignored.
The Yoga of Unity
One God, one world, one people. “A drop of water separate from the rain.”
The Scroll of Rainbow Glow
Gurudev pointing; yoga; the gold mask on the idol.
Ne Plus Ultra
The soul already knows. No extra realization to acquire.
Dedication into Our Cosmic Wonderland
A consecration of body and will. Thelema named.
The Telluric Tablet
Why he is called Mahendra: three gods share the name; Lokanatha’s diksha.
Sawl Song
Divinity unnoticed — “as the rose knows nothing of its fragrance.”
The Alchemy of Meditation
Sitting as the furnace. Lead to gold.
The Supreme Swan Song
Paramahamsa Gita. The tired naked yogi; sky as garment.
The Flight of the Swan
True yogis stay hidden. The swan that separates milk from water.
Dust & Bones
Avadhut refusal of the world’s jobs. The swan breaking chain.
The Emotive Theorem
Knew vs Know. Superstition set down for the present tense.
The Yolk of Yoga
Atman one; Maya the split. No day without killing something.
Yogi Digambara
The naked hermit. Squirrels and birds as company.
Cosmic Joy
Dance; “do what you will” as the only law.
Song of the Pagans
No parish rule. Each takes a turn leading the dance.
Magick for Mini-Folk
Do not grow up into the miserable adult. “Dance naked and sing.”
The Kingdom of the Gods
A borderless fancy: humans as stars, bare on the beach.
Old Pu-tai
The fat laughing god and his army of drop-outs.
The Divine Experience
God taking a body in order to use the senses.
Hymn to Lord Shiva
Ash-smeared, naked Shiva as the Absolute.
The Rite of the Naked Fire
An oration at the dhuni. “Homage to the Naked Fire.”
Guru, Mantra, and Magick
The guru-mantra as a seed explosion.
The Initiation Rite of Wood, Whip & Wizard
A dream-ordeal: wood, whip, wizard.
The Magick of the Fire Ball
Spells on a dull world. “Sprinkle the world with weirdshit and wonder.”
The Dreamtime Oracle
An oracle: vices, a wrecked ground, rune-stones beginning to move.
Sadhu Song
Bowl, robe, today only. “Each day I live is life enough.”
Requiem
Do not mourn. “Of all of life, Death is the best.”
The Valedictory of Gurudev Mahendranath
A farewell from the wandering magician. Love for a blighted species.
Hypertension Hymn
The daily round of ten thousand useless things.
The Guru
The calm one who will not reform the world — only walk a person to the other shore.
Sanatana Dharma Gita
A long song of the old dharma: India as the school, the procession of lives.
Other Writings by Mahendranath
The Supreme Reality
The Absolute as a long investment across lives. Intensity now is the only useful sign.
The Scroll of Esoteric Nath Wisdom
A thinking power fills the cosmos; each person carries a particle of it. Magick is that particle put to work.
The Scroll Called Synergetikos
Meditation and puja as cooperation, not paid guidance. “Togetherness is essential” — festivals, a social order that can stand.
The Ainigmatikos
A manual for paradox. Magick defined as irresistible influence; a Rudra mantra for a stuck problem; breath-counting as the daily tool.
The Exegetikos
Threes and fives: peace-freedom-happiness; iccha, jnana, kriya; the five kleshas. Nationalism, racism, and religion named as the three dividing delusions.
The Puja of the Three Super Faculties
An invocation: Insight, Intuition, Imagination. Shiva to Thoth in one list.
The Star Path
A teaching-story: Snafu Raj, Loadstar, Lalita. Outer-court Kaula for the Aquarian stretch; Hring Shring Kring.
Mahashivaratri
The night of Shiva. Pashupatinath and Girnar; Naga gatherings; digambara as submission to the Absolute.
Zen’s Zenith of Zest
Mind-to-mind transmission (the flower to Mahakashyapa). Zen set beside Yoga-Vidya and Dattatreya; no method as the method.
The Hope for an Alternative Society
Why the revolutions failed. The “establishment” as a ghost in the group mind. Beat, hippie, and the few who left drugs for a real guru.
The Drop-out and India
Western sadhu-costume without diksha. The Austrian who died in Delhi. One subject, held — not a rack of costumes.
Cannibalism, Aghori flesh, Sinclair’s Jungle. What a culture will swallow, and what it will not name.
Sinistroversus
The left-turning life stated at length. Dakshina vs Vama; pashu, vira, divya; svecchachara. Rites of lingam-yoni, the turn-about, the solitary working.
The Phantastikos
Imagination as a power. The Natha mind “as 1000 mirrors.” Keywords and Twilight Yoga gathered for a Western reader.
The Grimoire & Pseudologia of Lux Shambhala
A false grimoire that still teaches: elementals of five, Lalita, the wreck of Phaethon. Will, and the danger of calling what you cannot hold.
Snug in Smoky Smashans
Sadhana in the burning ground. Vamamarga, pashu-vira-divya, the erotic rite among ashes.
Legend of the Elusive Kingdom of Shadows
The penumbra next to waking life. The Guardian Spirit (his was “Wamgoperic” / Magic Power). Not a Christian demon.
Address to the Sacred Stone Nation
1985, to a Seattle circle. Why he planted a Western Nath Order: India thinning, America loud and unsure.
Dadaji Dhuniwala
The naked keeper of the Narmada dhuni, set against a scripture-saint at Hubli. The fire at Khandwa; trustees who later banned the naked.
Cairo, Cannons, and Camaraderie
Wartime Cairo. Guénon’s circle, Shambhala/Agharti talk, the Sphinx between barracks.
The Genesis of INO
Two 1970s notices: a “Pagan International,” then a Tantrik order from his Uttara-Kaula diksha. Kali as the public face of that turn.
The Naked Saints of India
Digambara — clothed in the sky. Pre-Aryan austerity, Jain and Hindu remnants, why cloth became a problem for empires.
The Occult World of a Tantrik Guru
The Occult World of a Tantrik Guru
I. Occult sciences as microcosm–macrocosm work. Pre-Aryan Kaula/Shakta Tantrika against later distortions. Sets up the initiation that follows.
The Tantrik Initiation
II. Ranchi, 1963. Pagala Baba, last Kaulacharya of that Uttara-Kaula line, gives him diksha after first refusing. Kali temple; he is named successor.
The Tantrik Goddess
III. Shakti as the Absolute in motion. Guru before old books. A note on why modern Shakta in India went thin, and why the Goddess still speaks to Western Paganism.
The New Tantrik Age
Kaula as a life: enjoyment and release together (bhukti-mukti-karanika). Kali Yuga / Aquarius as the hour when the closed teaching may be said in public.
Tantrik Yoga
Yoga as union in ordinary acts, not a distant prize. A rebuke of Blavatsky, Hodgson, Woodroffe; Pagala Baba; the panchatattva including maithuna.
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Dadaji Dhuniwala
Dedication into Our Cosmic Wonderland
The Divine Experience
The Dreamtime Oracle
The Drop-out and India
Dust & Bones
Magick for Mini-Folk
The Magick of the Fire Ball
The Magick Path of Tantra
Mahashivaratri
The Master Pattern of the Nath Order
Morbid Menus and Macabre Meals
Old Pu-tai
The Occult World of a Tantrik Guru I – The Tantrik Tapestry
The Occult World of a Tantrik Guru II – The Tantrik Initiation
The Occult World of a Tantrik Guru III – The Tantrik Goddess
The Organum of the Magnum Opus
The Pathless Path to Immortality
The Phantastikos
The Prophetikos
The Puja of the Three Super Faculties
Sadhu Song
Sanatana Dharma Gita
Sawl Song
The Scroll Called Synergetikos
The Scroll of Esoteric Nath Wisdom
The Scroll of Rainbow Glow
Sinistroversus
Snug in Smoky Smashans
Song of the Dreamtime Snake
Song of the Pagans
The Star Path
The Supreme Reality
The Supreme Swan Song