Karkotak Naag - Tantrik Guru

The next morning, after reaching Varanasi, I started walking toward the ghats. I wanted to explore the city on foot. As soon as I arrived at the ghats, I began searching for tantrics. I spotted one in a black dhoti named Giri. I told him I wanted to become a Tantric, and he replied that he did too. So, we teamed up to search for one together. He wasn’t wearing slippers; he was a priest at a Kaal Bhairav temple elsewhere. His guru had sent him to Varanasi barefoot to learn tantra first. He had vowed to either become a tantric or choose death—nothing else interested him.

Around 11 a.m. at Harishchandra Ghat, we saw a tantric performing a puja. We stood watching, and he gestured for us to join. A householder had commissioned the ritual to resolve some problem. The tantric had lit a small fire, offering rice grains and camphor, then placed six eggs into it. My attention was fixed on those eggs—I wondered if they would burst, or if something mystical would happen, or perhaps we’d receive them as prasad afterward.

When the puja ended, I told the tantric I wanted to become one like him. He said, “I’m heading home now—follow me.” Giri and I took an auto and reached his house. As soon as we entered, he had us sit while he lay on the bed. Giri whispered, “We should serve him—you massage his right foot, and I’ll take the left.” So, we began pressing his feet.

After a while, the tantric spoke: “To become a tantric, you need to study. Can you read and write?” Giri was completely illiterate—that’s why he sought tantra—while I needed it to write the tantra chapter for my book on Sanatan Dharma. The tantric asked about my education. I said, “I’m a B. Com graduate with a degree in astrology.”

He handed me a tantra book and said, “Read one paragraph and explain it.” I read it, but one unfamiliar word threw off the entire meaning. I started searching for it on my phone. Noticing the Goddess, he said, “Guru Purnima is in 10 days—give me this phone as guru dakshina.” I refused outright. He immediately said, “Then both of you leave. Buy a good red dhoti and return after Guru Purnima to learn tantra vidya.”

As soon as I stepped out of that tantric guru’s house, I started thinking, how can any guru ask for a mobile phone directly in the very first meeting? I needed an immediate answer. So when I returned to the ghat, I began to reflect deeply and started asking Ganesh. Inside me, there is another mind whose name is Ganesh.

Kedi: Why would a tantric guru want to take my mobile phone as guru dakshina in the very first meeting?

Ganesh: He was Karkotak Naag. He was trying to enchant you through tantra and put you under his influence. But your attention was on the eggs, so you did not fall under his spell.

Kedi: Karkotak Naag existed in the Mahabharata. How can he exist in the age of Kaliyuga?

Ganesh: Karkotak Naag is an immortal gan. He exists in every age, and in Kali Yuga too there are countless Karkotak Naags.

Kedi: What does Karkotak Naag do?

Ganesh: Karkotak Naag performs tantric rituals to invoke other gans, and then he loots his own devotees or distorts them.

Kedi: Why did that Karkotak Naag try to loot me? Why didn’t he try to loot Giri?

Ganesh: You had a mobile phone in your hand and a bag on your shoulder. You were wearing a new yellow dhoti. Your face was practically shouting, “I am innocent and naive—come and loot me.”

Giri was the complete opposite. He was wearing just a dhoti. He had no pockets, no mobile phone, and no bag. Whatever money he had, he had kept inside his loincloth. And in his eyes there was the hunger of a tantric who wanted to loot others. No one could loot Giri even if they tried.

Kedi: Are all tantrics Karkotak Naag?

Ganesh: No. Some tantrics are fake; Karkotak does not enter them. The one who dedicates his entire life to tantric practices—Karkotak Naag enters his body and makes him a tantric guru. Without Karkotak Naag, anyone may become a fake or ordinary tantric, but no one can become a true tantric guru.

Kedi: Do real tantric gurus also loot people?

Ganesh: Every institutanal businessman in the world wishes to become rich by extracting money from his students and customers. In the same way, every tantric guru chooses this path with the intention of extracting money from clients and students. Tantric practice is also a business.

Kedi: But in Kamakhya you had told me that I could become a tantric without doing tantric rituals.

Ganesh: I said that you can understand tantra without becoming a tantric—you can become a knower of tantra, not a trader of tantra.

Kedi: Are all tantrics guru bad?

Ganesh: Just as not all teaching service providers are bad, not all tantric gurus are completely bad either. After all, tantric gurus are also service providers.

Kedi: When I used to provide massage services, one female client told me that if the service was not good, she would take compensation. She deducted 200 rupees saying I had scratched her with my nails. Can a client also demand compensation from a tantric?

Ganesh: That female client demanding compensation from you was wrong. You were naive, so she talked about compensation. In every service, customer satisfaction does not necessarily matter. Even in tantric services, customer satisfaction does not matter. Therefore, compensation is not involved in this profession either.

Conclusion: Parmeshwar First Ganapati has created 8 forms of Naag Gana on earth. The definition of the word 'Naag' is a species of spirits who descend into the human body and make them religious; spiritual, fake, and unreligious teachers are called 'Naag Gana'. Shesh, Vasuki, Padma, Mahapadma, Karkotak, Takshak, Shankha, and Kaliya—these are 8 forms of Naag Gana. Species of spirits who descend into human bodies and make them religious tantrik gurus are called Karkotak Naag.

Note: This chapter is part of 'Kedi Kand' — a 108-chapter living scripture authored by Kedi Ganapati, documenting real encounters with 108 ancient spirit beings (Gana) in modern India.

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