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| birth_place = [[Lingnoor (k nool)]], [[kolhapur]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2001|8|16|1905|4|23}}
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'''Shri Samarth Muppin Kaadsiddheswar Maharaj''' (April 23, 1905 – August 16, 2001) was one of the great [[guru]]s in the [[Navnath]] tradition of [[Hindu philosophy]]. He was a disciple of Shri Samarth [[Siddharameshwar Maharaj]],<ref>Maharaj, S. (1994), Shri sadguru Siddharmeshwar Maharaj's master key to self-realisation. Bombay: Shri Sadguru Siddharmeshwar Adhyatma Kendra.</ref> disciple of Shri Samarth Bhausaheb Maharaj,<ref>Deshpande, M.S. (1978). Sri Bhauseheb Maharaj : life sketch and nama yoga. Belgaum:</ref> disciple of Shri Gurulingajangam Maharaj (Shri Nimbargi Maharaj),<ref>Dabade, K.B. (1998). Sociology of religion: a case study of nimbargi sampradya. Mangalore: Mangalore Publications.</ref><ref>Mysticism In Maharashtra; (R D Ranade), {{ISBN|8120805755}} Year Of Publication : 1982</ref><ref>Deshpande, M.S. (1978). Sri Nimbargi Maharaj: his life and teaching. Belgaum:</ref><ref>Maharaj, N. (1975). Nectar of illumination: teachings of Shree Nimbagi Maharaj. (Gajendragadlar, S., & Bhagwat, S., trans.). Poona: Bhagwat</ref> disciple of the 22nd Shri Samarth Muppin Kaadsiddheswar Maharaj.

== Biography ==
Kaadsiddheswar was born on April 23, 1905 (Chaitra Sankashti day) in Linganoor village, [[Kolhapur]] district, [[Maharashtra]] state, India. His father's name was Shaigauda Patil, and he was named Jaigauda Patil.
His living descendant is Indumati Magdum (daughter of his real sister). Indumati is 85 and lives with her son Sanjeev, daughter in law Jayashree and grand daughter Krupa in Nagala Park, Kolhapur.

He was formally adopted by the 25th [[Virupaksha Kaadeshwar]] of the [[Kaneri Math]], [[Lingayat]] [[Parampara]], and invested as the 26th Mathadheepati of the (Siddhagiri) Kaneri Math, Lingayat Parampara, in 1922 at the age of 17.

He was a master in [[yoga]] and mastered all the difficult [[asana]]s, such as the [[Kumbhak]], which he could maintain for nine minutes. He would meditate for over ten hours a day, and from 1922 to 1935 he mastered all aspects of the [[Hindu]] spiritual tradition and philosophy.

He met his philosophical and spiritual [[guru]], [[Siddharameshwar]], in 1935. He was given a new outlook on the deep philosophical concepts and attained self-realization, or [[Gyan Drishti]]. He taught that concepts of sects and religions are an illusion and that everything is unified. To realize this unity is the simplest form of [[Vidnyani Avastha]].

== The Kaadsiddheshwar Parampara ==
{{Navnath Sampradaya - Inchegiri Sampradaya}}
Shri Samarth Revannath (c. 1112 CE), one of the [[Navnath]] Parampara (The Nine Teachers) in the Indian Teacher-Disciple tradition, is considered the founder and the first Kaadsiddheshwar. He established the Kaadsiddheshwar temple and [[Matha|math]] at Kanheri village in Karveer tehsil, [[Kolhapur]] district, Maharashtra state, India.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ourkolhapur.com/kaneri.php?hisp=1 |title=Kaneri : Shiva's holy place |publisher=Ourkolhapur.com |date= |accessdate=2012-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104021149/http://www.ourkolhapur.com/kaneri.php?hisp=1 |archive-date=4 November 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The Kaadsiddheshwar Peeth is also the main [[Kuladevata|Kuldaivat]] (Dynastic Gods/Teachers) of the Lingayat Shaiva community.{{Clarify|date=September 2012|reason=This is unintelligible. It simply isn't English.}} Shri Muppin Kaadsiddheswar Maharaj the 26th Mathaadheepati of this tradition from 1922 to 2001.<ref>http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/KOLHAPUR/people_lingayats.html</ref>

=== Siddhagiri Math (Kaneri Math) ===
{{See also|Siddhagiri Gramjivan Museum (Kaneri Math)}}

The Siddhagiri Math was established around the Moola-Kaadsiddheswar [[Shiva]] temple in the [[Shaiva]]-[[Lingayat]] tradition. It is a vast campus with the central Shiva temple, Adhyatmik Center, and a complex of halls for discussions, residential hostels for devotees, and adjacent farms. About 1200 villages in the area are devoted to the Kaadsiddheswar Parampara.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/folklorenotesvol032923mbp/folklorenotesvol032923mbp_djvu.txt |title=Full text of "Folk Lore Notes Vol. II Konkan" |publisher=Archive.org |date= |accessdate=2012-11-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://kolhapur.nic.in/KolhapurGazetteer/places_Kaneri.html |title=The Gazetteers Department |publisher=Kolhapur |date=1955-05-15 |accessdate=2012-11-07}}</ref>

===Inchegiri Sampradaya===
{{Main article|Inchegeri Sampradaya}}

Kaadsiddheshwar's guru Siddharameshwar belonged to the Inchegiri Sampradaya, a Navnath/Lingayat sampradaya which is strongly influenced by the [[Sant Mat]] and the [[Deshastha Brahmin]] caste,{{sfn|Boucher|year unknown}} to which the thirteenth century [[Varkari]] saint and philosopher [[Dnyaneshwar]] belonged, the 16th century sant [[Eknath]], and the 17th century saint and spiritual poet [[Samarth Ramdas]].{{sfn|Bokil|1979|p=18}}

== His Contribution to the Hindu Spiritual Philosophy ==
Kaadsiddheswar worked extensively with poor laborers and farmers. He gave extensive discourses on Hindu philosophy and the right way to live, which would lead him to Gyan Drishti and Vignayni Avastha. His main focus was to live his life fully while understanding that the world is an illusion, or Maya. Realizing this is considered Gyan Drishti, literally knowledge and vision, and living according to this concept is to be in Vignayni Avastha.

He renovated the Kaneri Math and renamed it Siddhagiri Math. He constructed a 42 ft tall idol of a meditating Shiva with an equally massive [[Nandi (bull)|Nandi]], built halls and [[hostel]]s for devotees, started a school with a hostel for poor, underprivileged students on the Math campus, and started an old-age home there.

He revitalized the [[pravachan]]s (discourses) organized in the Siddhagiri Math. These were organized on every full moon and on every major Hindu religious occasion, like the Sharavan Month, the [[Navratri]] and [[Ramnavmi]]. However, the largest pravachans were organized on the three-day festival around [[Maha Shivarati]] day (February–March), where over 50,000 lakh devotees have been recorded at the Siddhagiri Math.

He also established maths in [[Mumbai]], [[Mahabaleshwar]], [[Khopi-Pedambe]], [[Amurteshwar-Satara]], [[Pune]] and elsewhere. Discourses were organized in these centers of philosophy regularly. They were delivered in the Marathi language and were very simple to understand. They mainly focused on the concept of "Aham Brahmasmi" ("I am Brahma"). Brahma is a complex word with several layers of meaning, including universe, soul, eternity, timelessness and nothingness. His constant teaching was "Ghabru Nakos" ("Do not fear" in Marathi) and "[[Soham]]" ("That Itself is Me"). He propagated the ''Shrimad [[Dasbodh]]'', a book by [[Samarth Ramdas]], as the basic and simplest book on philosophy. During His discourses, he would often quote the [[Mahāvākyas]].

== Books ==

He wrote mainly in [[Marathi language|Marathi]].
*''Aachar va Parmartha'' (Behavior and The Right Way)
*''Parmartha va Japanustha'' (The Right way and the Chanting of Mantras)
*''Parmartha va Satkarma'' (The Right Way and Correct Actions)
*''Parmartha va Swadharma'' (The Right Way and Self Philosophy)
*''Dharma Parampara, Rudhi va Parmartha'' (The tradition of Right, Traditions and The Right Way)
*''Maza Europe cha Daura'' – (My Travels to Europe)

He also wrote several essays on philosophy, mainly for the quarterly magazine ''Siddhagiri Sandesh'' (Message from Siddhagiri), published from 1964.

== References ==
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==Sources==
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* {{citation | last =Bokil | first =Vinayak Pandurang | year =1979 | title =Rajguru Ramdas | publisher =Kamalesh P. Bokil : sole distributors, International Book Service| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zFoqAAAAYAAJ}}
* {{Citation | last =Boucher | first =Cathy | year =n.d. | title =The Lineage of Nine Gurus. The Navnath Sampradaya and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj | url =http://nisargadatta.net/Navnath_Sampradaya.html}}
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== External links ==
* https://web.archive.org/web/20090302135111/http://www.kolhapurbiz.com/Kolhapur/
* http://kolhapur.nic.in/Htmldocs/kanerimath.htm
* http://siddharameshwar.sr.lib.bz/{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* http://kolhapur.nic.in/Htmldocs/kanerimath.htm

[[Category:20th-century Hindu religious leaders]]
[[Category:1905 births]]
[[Category:People from Kolhapur district]]
[[Category:2001 deaths]]
[[Category:Inchegeri Sampradaya]]
[[Category:Marathi Hindu saints]]

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