Rishi Dushat Daman
The Yogi of This Mountain
Rishi Dushat Daman — The Primal Sage
One extraordinary yogi of the Himalayas is Rishi Dushat Daman. Puranas, the oldest manuals of human history, mention him with great reverence as the primal sage, and even the Devas – the forefathers of the human race, longed for his presence. His abode in the Himalayan mountain range is known respectfully as Siri Hemkunth Sahib, the 10th gate of Mother Earth. It’s a Tirath, a sacred space which has powerful charged fields of consciousness. We do not know the exact date, but what Rishi Dushat Daman left there is still vibrantly alive today.
On the mountain peak of Siri Hemkunth Sahib, his energy has been reverberating for many centuries. Wherever anybody has become enlightened, there are certain vibrations that remain. Even if thousands of years have passed, vibrations still reverberate in that space –for example in the trees, in the stones, in the lake, in the mountains and other surroundings. You can still feel some strange kind of presence of that being. That individual may not be there, for example the singer may have left, but the record is still there and you can hear the voice again.
According to Sri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan, Rishi Dushat Daman in his radiant body meditated on this mountain for 3.5 billion years. He mastered all forms of yoga known and unknown to humanity. His presence was so radiant that his aura extended 25 miles. Many seekers would come just to be in his presence.
His very presence would bloom their hearts and give them an experience of the Universal Mind. He spoke very little as he was always in Samadhi – a state of being where the sense of the personal self has dissolved into the universal self.
Much of his teachings were conveyed in Shunya - silence.
He attained complete union with the divine and broke the cycle of birth and death. After full realization is attained, it is not necessary that one takes another birth, but out of compassion he took another birth to guide humanity to their truth within. Under the Universal Will, Rishi Dushat Daman reincarnated in kaliyuga, the present iron age, as Guru Gobind Singh to revive the Dharma and to guide humanity to the truth within. Born fully enlightened, Guru Gobind Singh was 9 years old when he was recognized as the 10th Guru in the lineage of enlighten masters which started with Guru Nanak.
According to Yogi Bhajan, Guru Gobind Singh was the most perfect man, creator has ever created. Guru Gobind Singh was the Master of radiance, a true Guru, Warrior, householder, Poet and a Yogi.
Guru Gobind Singh - In His Own Words
Guru Gobind Singh himself wrote of his own past life at this mountain:
Now I shall narrate my own story.
While in deep meditation
I saw where Mount Hemkunth is,
with the seven peaks standing in glory.
That very place, I performed intensive meditations (tapa),
merged the Mahakal and Kalka — the two polarities — within.
While performing these meditations, my duality ended.
I became one with the totality.