Yogi In The Making

Transmutation from Seed to Fruit: The making of Yogi and Mukti (Liberation). Tirumantiram Verse 2869.

2869. வழுதலை வித்திடப் பாகன் முளைத்தது

புழுதியைத் தோண்டினேன் பூசணி பூத்தது

தொழுதுகொண்டு ஓடினோர் தோட்டக் குடிகண்

முழுதும் பழுத்தது வாழைக் கனியே. 4

2869: Abnegation of Desires Leading to Liberation Through Yoga

I sowed the seed of brinjal

And the shoot of balsam-pear arose;

I dug up the dust;

And the pumpkin blossomed;

The gardner-gang prayed and ran;

Full well ripened the fruit of plantain.

Transmutation from Seed to Fruit: The making of Yogi and Mukti (Liberation). Tirumantiram Verse 2869.
2869. வழுதலை வித்திடப் பாகன் முளைத்தது
புழுதியைத் தோண்டினேன் பூசணி பூத்தது
தொழுதுகொண்டு ஓடினோர் தோட்டக் குடிகண்
முழுதும் பழுத்தது வாழைக் கனியே. 4

2869: Abnegation of Desires Leading to Liberation Through Yoga
I sowed the seed of brinjal
And the shoot of balsam-pear arose;
I dug up the dust;
And the pumpkin blossomed;
The gardner-gang prayed and ran;
Full well ripened the fruit of plantain.

This verse is cryptic, and needs explanation. 
The Seed becomes a Plant. The Plant bears a Flower. The Flower becomes the Fruit. The seed, the Plant, the Flower, and the Fruit are of the same class -species-specific in nature.
When these four parts are of different classes (species), that is an anomaly of nature. 
Eggplant seed grew to a Bitter Gourd Plant (1st anomaly). Bitter Gourd Plant bore a Pumpkin Flower (2nd anomaly). Pumpkin Flower yielded Plantain Fruits (3rd anomaly).
How do you explain these serial anomalies transiting from one species to an entirely different species?
This is called Transmutation. At every level, there is transmutation. 
Take the Tree of 40 Fruits - from a single tree by grafting differing species on the original tree.
The "Tree of 40 Fruit" is Van Aken's creation, a single tree that can produce 40 different stone fruits, or fruit with pits, including peaches, apricots, plums, cherries and nectarines. 
Becoming a Yogi is behavioral Transmutation as follows at each stage.
1. First he undergoes physical 'transmutation' -Shaving the head, carrying a stick, a water pot... The smooth surface (Shaven Head) of Eggplant.
2. Changing external appearance is not enough in pursuing his goal. 
He must negate the world: Give up the ways of the world. 2nd Transmutation. Bitterness of Gourd (Plant) = World Negation. 
3. To become the Yogi, he had to disown the Body Tattvas and make a retrograde involution, absorption of all physical Tattvas: Asuddha, Suddha-Asuddha Tattvas. That is the 3rd Transmutation. This is the Pumpkin Flower coming out of Bitter Gourd Plant.
The gardener-gang prayed and ran = The Yogi in making abandoned sense organs. 
In technical terms he must ascend from Turiya to Turiyatita (Ambrosia) to Paraturiya (Jīva becomes Para)...His Āṇava Mala is erased. He is one with Siva. 
4. Once he goes up this ladder of Transmutation, he attains Mukti and Merger. That is the Fruit - that of Plantain. The plantain seeds are inviable black specks. 
The Yogi Starts from a live Seed and ends up in a Banana of Liberation with non-viable Seeds of Banana (No more birth: Mukti, Liberation). He merged with Siva.

Let us see how a Seed Yogi in the making progressed to a fruit from Bitter-Gourd plant to Bitter-Gourd Fruit; from Pumkpin Flower to a Pumpkin; and from Eggplant seed to Bitter gourd plant to Pumpkin flower to a Banana.
Pointers: If he followed the natural evolution, the following would have been the outcome.
1. The Seed. The Eggplant-Seed-Yogi. This Non-Yogi would be a Yogi in name only with bald pate.
2. The Plant. Bitter-Gourd Yogi was the product of bitter experiences in the world. Dust to Dust Yogi: He came from dust and became dust after death. 
4. Pumpkin Flower Yogi: This is the carotinoid Fat 'Yogi' wearing Ochre clothes. 
5. Banana Yogi: The True Yogi with no viable seeds, sweat, fragrant and liberated.
All along the true Yogi undergoes sexual transmutation: Urdvaretas (Ascending flow). It means it is not expended in the usual manner but conserved, reabsorbed and transmuted to Ojas and Tejas - Vigor and splendor. The Yogi goes from phenomenal to Noumenal. He goes from Pasu to Divya.

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