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H-M synthesis: Before the Rise of Hindutva, Gorakhnath Mutt of Yogi Adityanath Nurtured Muslim Yogis
by Guest Wed Mar 29, 2017 11:54 pm
In eastern Uttar Pradesh, dozens of villages are inhabited by Muslim yogis who, like members of the Nath sect, wear saffron gudri or kantha and wander through villages singing folklore on their sarangi, narrating how Gopichandra and Raja Bharthari became sanyasis under the influence of Gorakhnath. Villagers offer them food and money and passionately listen to while they glorify Gorakhnath in their songs.
Who are these yogis and how are they related to the Nath sect influenced by Gorakhnath? Few people know about their history. The Muslim yogis once used to be a common sight. Not any more....
There are Muslim yogis even today who call themselves devotees of Gorakhnath and Bharthari, and associate themselves with the Nath sect. They live in villages of Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Devaria, Sant Kabir Nagar, Azamgarh and Balrampur. But under growing pressure from within as well as outside the community, they are now leaving their traditions. Amidst rising communal violence and sectarianism, the yogis feel uneasy donning saffron. The young generation looks down upon the practice and view it only as a form of begging. On the other hand, the Hindutva brigade looks at them as a threat because these Muslim yogis practice the philosophy and ideals on which they have based their politics of hate.
In 2007, when I started research on Muslim yogis, I met a Sant Kabir Panth follower who informed me about Muslim yogis living in Gorakhpur’s Badgo village. We reached there and met several young men outside the village. When we asked them about the yogis, they expressed their disdain at the fact that the yogis wore saffron clothes despite being Muslims. They wished that the yogis would leave this practice. They were all Hindu men, some of whom were members of the Hindu Yuva Vahini.
https://thewire.in/119102/before-the-rise-of-hindutva-gorakhnath-nurtured-muslim-yogis/
Who are these yogis and how are they related to the Nath sect influenced by Gorakhnath? Few people know about their history. The Muslim yogis once used to be a common sight. Not any more....
There are Muslim yogis even today who call themselves devotees of Gorakhnath and Bharthari, and associate themselves with the Nath sect. They live in villages of Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Devaria, Sant Kabir Nagar, Azamgarh and Balrampur. But under growing pressure from within as well as outside the community, they are now leaving their traditions. Amidst rising communal violence and sectarianism, the yogis feel uneasy donning saffron. The young generation looks down upon the practice and view it only as a form of begging. On the other hand, the Hindutva brigade looks at them as a threat because these Muslim yogis practice the philosophy and ideals on which they have based their politics of hate.
In 2007, when I started research on Muslim yogis, I met a Sant Kabir Panth follower who informed me about Muslim yogis living in Gorakhpur’s Badgo village. We reached there and met several young men outside the village. When we asked them about the yogis, they expressed their disdain at the fact that the yogis wore saffron clothes despite being Muslims. They wished that the yogis would leave this practice. They were all Hindu men, some of whom were members of the Hindu Yuva Vahini.
https://thewire.in/119102/before-the-rise-of-hindutva-gorakhnath-nurtured-muslim-yogis/
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