Sidh Bawa Balak Nath
Sidh Baba Balak Nath, also known as Paunahari or Dudhadhari, is a Hindu deity known as the most gracious god in Hinduism. He is known as the incarnation of Lord Kartikeya in Kali Yuga.
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| Devanagari | सिद्ध बाबा बालक नाथ |
| Affiliation | Brahman (Nath), Deva (Hinduism) |
| Abode | Deotsidh Gufa-Baba Balak Nath, Hamirpur District, Himachal Pradesh, India |
| Mantra | ॐ नमः सिद्धाय (Oṃ Namaḥ Siddhāy) |
| Mount | Peacock |
| Festivals | Chet Mahina, Chaitra |
| Parents | Vishnu Rao (father), Laxmi Ben (mother) |
Sidh Baba Balak Nath is known as the "merciful (one who forgives all the sins)" god incarnated in Kali Yuga. He is the follower of Lord shiva(Shaivism) .
Early life
The most popular story about the birth of Baba Balak Nath as 'sidh-purush' is associated with the Amar Katha of Lord Shiva. It is said that Lord Shiva was sharing the Amar Katha with Goddess Parvati in the cave of Amarnath, and Goddess Parvati fell asleep. A kid-parrot was there in the cave and he was listening the entire story and was making noise of 'yes' ("hmm.."). When the story finished, Lord Shiva found Goddess Parwati sleeping and so he understood that someone else had heard the story. He became very angry and threw his Trishul (trident) on the kid-parrot. The kid-parrot escaped from there to save his life and Trishul followed him. In the way, the wife of Rishi Vyasa was yawning. The kid-parrot entered her stomach through her mouth. The Trishul stopped, as it was unreligious to kill a lady. When Lord Shiva knew all this he also came there and narrated his problem to Rishi Vyas. Rishi Vyas told him that he should wait there and as the kid-parrot would come out, he could kill him. Lord Shiva stood there for a very long time but the kid-parrot did not come out. As Lord Shiva stood there, the whole universe got disordered. Then all the Lords met Sage Narada and requested him to request Lord Shiva to save the world. Then Narada came to Lord Shiva and prayed him to leave his anger as the child had already heard the Amar Katha.and so now he had become immortal and now nobody could kill him. Listening to this, Lord Shiva told the kid-parrot to come out and in return the kid-parrot demanded a blessing from him. Lord Shiva accepted that and the kid-parrot prayed that as he comes out as a man, any other child who gets birth at the same time would be granted all kind of knowledge and would be immortal. As Lord Shiva accepted this, a divine baby come out from the mouth of Rishi Vyas. He prayed Lord Shiva and got his blessings. This divine baby was called Sukhdev Muni later. The other babies who got birth at that time were famous as Navnatha and eighty-four siddhas (Chaurasi Sidh). One of them was Baba Balak Nath.
Connection with Lord Shiva in Dvapara Yuga : It is believed about Baba Balak Nath that he takes birth in every age (yuga). He appeared as "Skanda" in Satya Yuga, as "Kaul" in Treta Yuga and as "Mahakaul" in Dvapara Yuga. In Dvapara Yuga, Baba Balak Nath was in the way to Kailash Dham with a wish to meet Lord Shiva. In the way he met with an old lady. The lady asked him where he is going. Then Baba Balak Nath who was Mahakaul told her that he is praying Lord Shiva since last three births but he had not been blessed by Lord Shiva with his appearance and so he was moving towards Kailash Dham with this very wish. The old lady told Baba that it was not easy to have a live appearance of Lord Shiva. You have to do something extraordinary. When Baba asked her what he should do,she told that Baba should stand in the foothills of the Kailash near Mansarovar and pray there. Mata Parwati used to come there on some occasions for bath. When Mata Parwati comes there he should pray her to fulfill her wish. Mata Parwati will surely try to give him something else but he should insist on his wish only. Baba Balak Nath stood for twelve gharis with the old lady and moved towards the Man Sarovar. He did the same as the old lady had advised him and finally Lord Shiva was pleased and blessed him to be Paramsidh in Kali Yuga that he would remain as Balak (young) and age would not affect him. MahaKaul of Dvapara Yuga got birth in Kali Yuga at Kathiyawad in the house of Narayan Vishnu and Laxmi. Parent named him as "Dev". Dev was very religious from his childhood and he used to pray all the times. His parents then tried to marry him so that he cannot leave the home. Dev was not ready for this. When he was so much under pressure for marriage he left home and moved towards Girnar Parwat in the search of Paramsiddhi. In Junagarh he met with Swami Dattatreya. Here at the ashram of Swami Dattatreya, he got divine knowledge and emerged as Sidh. As Lord Shiva had blessed him that age will not affect him he remained as a child and called "Balak Nath".
Miracle
Miracle in Shah Talai : It is believed that Babaji came to Bachhretu Mahadev from Kurukshetra where he had come with saints at the time of Solar Eclipse. Thereafter Babaji came to ShahTalai and met "Ratno Mai" - the epitome of "Dwapra's old woman, who had guided "Mahakaul Babaji". Thus Babaji was to compensate what that old woman had done for him in "Dvapara Yuga". So Babaji took the most inconvenient work of Ratno Mai, that was cow-grazing. Babaji made his shelter below a Banyan Tree. He told Ratno Mai he would meditate below Banyan Tree and graze the cows side by side. He asked her to leave the bread and "Lassi" for him there for taking after meditation. Babaji committed with Ratno Mai to work for her as long she would remain satisfied. Everything remained smooth till twelve years. People started complaining the damage to crop field by the cows by the end of 12th year. Ratno Mai used to ignore such complaints but the complaint of village headman broke the patience of Ratno Mai and she started rebuking Babaji. So BabaJi took Ratno Mai and village headman to the field and miraculously there was no damage to the crops at all. Everybody was awestruck by this miracle. Babaji came back to his place of worship and asked RatniMai to take back her cows and let him go his way. Ratno Mai out of motherly affection tried to persuade BabaJi to stay back and reminded him about her providing bread and Lassi for 12 years. Babaji responded that it had been coincidental and further affirmed that he had kept all the bread and Lassi safely as he never consumed them. By saying that BabaJi threw his "Chimta" on the stem of banyan tree and the breads Roti supplied for 12 years came out. He further struck the same "Chimta" on the earth and a spring of Lassi started coming out taking the shape of a pond and the place came to be known as "Shaha Talai". On Babaji's stance for going away from Shaha Talai, Ratno Mai repented for her ignorance. On seeing all this, BabaJi lovingly told Ratno Mai that he would worship in forestland and she could see him there. He established His "Dhuna" below a "Gurna Jhari" (a thorny bush) about half kilometer from Shah Talai. A half hollow structure has been prepared to symbolize the "Hollow of banyan Tree". Nearby is a temple having the images of Baba Balak Nath, Gugga Chauhan and Nahar Singh Ji.
Interaction with Guru Gorakh Nath
One day Guru Gorakhnath along with his disciples came in the same area where Babaji was. Then, Guru Gorakhnath came to know about Baba ji and he reached where baba ji was. Babaji joined his hands to give respect to Guru Gorakh as he was an avtar of lord Shiva himself. Guru Gorakh decided to test the powers of babaji. Guru Gorakh asked Baba ji to provide them seats and food. Baba ji spread his mrigshala and Guru Gorakh with his followers took the seats on that and a large part of that was still unoccupied. Then babaji called a non milking barren cow which gave milk by the magic of babaji and then babaji served it to Guru Gorakhnath and his disciples.Finally, Guru Gorakh ordered his one of follower to fly his i.e. followers mirgshala in sky and asked babaji to bring that down, baba ji threw his firetoung to do so. It came down by the magic of babaji. Guru gorkh was so impressed. Reaching to deoth sidhh and cave: Next day, some disciples of guru Gorakh tried to put the earings in the ears of baba Balaknath. As the disciples of guru Gorakhnath ji tried to split the ears of balak nath ji, then the milk started coming out from the ears of baba balak nath and he escaped from their hands and came to another place which is now known as Deotsidh and cave.
The Temple of Baba Balaknath is in Deotsidh, Himachal Pradesh. Babaji kept his foots in this place for first time where charan paduka temple is built now. From "Charan Paduka", BabaJi went to a cave on the hill. A demon came out of the cave and warned BabaJi to go away. Babaji, by his "sidh-shakti" forced the demon to vacate the cave for BabaJi's meditation. The demon understood the state of affairs and went away. Then BabaJi settled there for meditation. Bhartrihari also settled for meditation near that cave. One day, a Brahmin named as "Banarasi" from the nearby village Chakmoh came to that area for grazing his cows. BabaJi appeared before him and interacted. Brahmin told Babaji about his barren cows. Babaji asked where his cows were. Surprisingly only lions and tigers were there. After seeing the stunning posture of Brahmin, Babaji asked him to call his cows. Astonishingly, as the Brahmin called, his cows surrounded him. Seeing the miracle, Brahmin became the devotee of Babaji. Brahmin continued to see Babaji. One day Babaji told him that he would disappear one day and asked the Brahmin to continue the tradition of "Dhuna" and worshipping. Brahmin followed the point and maintained the tradition. A lamp remained lighted near Babaji whose light spread away in the nearby villages. Thus people had started calling Babaji as "Baba Deot Sidh" and later on the place became famous as "Baba Balaknath Gufa Deotsidh ".
Movie
His tale was made Shiv Bhakta Baba Balak Nath 1972 movie, starring B. M. Vyas, Babloo, Jayshree Gadkar, Mahesh Desai, Anuradha Guha, Awtar, Baboo Raje, Radhe Shyam, Sulochana, Sulochana Chatterjee & Suresh Divekar.
Temples
There are many temples of Baba Balak Nath in India and some abroad.
Himachal Pradesh
- Gufa Sidh Baba Balak Nath, Deotsidh , Hamirpur district
The main temple of Sidh Baba Balak Nath is south of Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh in Deotsidh Forest. The temple is situated on Dhaulgiri hill and is just 4 km from base city Shahtalai.
His temple is very big and women are not allowed to enter the main DARBAR which is the cave and Idol of Baba Balak nath ji has been placed and believe that Baba Balak nath did his spiritual practice for many year in the cave There is a different way to seek blessings from the same idol by women but at a distance. Many people with their desires come to this temple. Baba Balak Nath is the son of lord Shiva.
- Baba Balaknath Mandir,Deonghat, Solan, Himachal Pradesh
- Garkhal: There is Sidh Baba Balak Nath Temple in Garkhal on way to kasauli from Dharampur, Himachal Pradesh India
- Khrooni,Bangana and many more.
Delhi
- Sidh baba balak nath ji mandir, Guru shri krishan kant, uttam nagar, mohan garden,Nanak Pura, Moti bagh, Laxmi nagar, Shakarpur, madipur colony and many more.[1]
Punjab
- Sidh Peeth Baba Balak Nath Ji, Baba Balak Nath Kunj,Near Phatak Number 24, Patiala, Punjab, IN-147001
- Sidh Baba Balak Nath ji Mandir Near new grain market, Lalru mandi distt.mohali Punjab
- Sidh baba balak nath mandir,Dilbag Nagar, Basti Guzan, Punjab
- Sidh Baba Balak Nath ji Mandir, Guru Dera, Sector-65A(Kambali), Mohali https://www.facebook.com/KambaliDhaam/
- Mandir Sidh Baba Balak Nath v Durga Mata, Prem Nagar, Ghumar Mandi, Ludhiana
- Baba Balak Nath Temple, Bhanowal, Hoshiarpur district
- Sarav Sanjha Darbar Sidh Shakti Sh Baba Balak Nath Bibi Satya Devi Satsang Bhawan in Banga, Punjab near Nawashar district
- Sidh BABA BALAK NATH Mandir, Bhuchran Mohlla Musapur Road, District Nawanshahr
- Sidh Baba Balak Nath Mandir, Dhuri Line, Murad Pura, Nr Kwality Kanda, Gill Road, Ludhiana
- Bawa balaknath mandir phagwara & goraya.
- Sidh Shri Baba Balak Nath Mandir, Near Bus Stand, Village — Maloya, Chandigarh - 160025
- Sidh Shri Baba Balak Nath Mandir, M.E.S Quarters, Nalwa Road, Jalandhar Cantt-144005
- Sidh Shri Baba Balak Nath Mandir, Bheem Street no. 22 Neela Gumbad, Anarkali, Lahore
Uttar Pradesh
Philippines
- Sri Sidh Baba Balak Nath Hindu Temple- 1607, 12 Market Ave, San Miguel, Pasig, 1602 Metro Manila
Walsall,UK
- Mandir baba balak nath ji, 96A Caldmore Rd, Walsall WS1 3PD, United Kingdom
References
- Famous Baba Balak Nath Temples in Delhi - https://www.bhaktibharat.com/list/baba-balak-nath-temple-in-delhi
- Sidh Baba Balak Nath Mandir, Noida Sector 71
- https://www.google.co.in/maps/place/Shri+Baba+Balak+Nath+Mandir/@28.668853,77.416648,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x50b3b234a5ced05c!8m2!3d28.668853!4d77.416648