Takshak Naag - Fake Guru

In 2025, I went to the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj on my bike. About 50 kilometers before Prayagraj, the road was jammed with traffic. Since I was on a bike, I easily cut through and reached the Kumbh Mela.

This time, instead of Niranjani Akhada, I went to Juna Akhada. I went there as a devotee. I did not know any sadhu there, so no one accepted me. Everyone said, “Go to the tent of a sadhu you already know.”

I went to other tents and said that I wanted to become a Naga Sadhu. The first sadhu refused. The second one looked at me carefully and said, “I want to be absorbed in devotion. A disciple can become an obstacle in a guru’s devotion, so I do not need a disciple. But my guru needs one. I will take you to him.”

He took me to his guru and said, “Until you become a sadhu, serve the guru. Do not run away. If you run away, I'll find you wherever you are and I'll break your ass.” I was curious to know how the guru of a sadhu who was abusing and threatening me would behave. That sadhu guru shouted at his volunteer as if they were his personal servants. They had come to serve the sadhus without salary, only to earn virtue through selfless service. The guru made me wash utensils and wash his clothes. I showed him my religious scriptures and asked for his opinion, but he did not want to see them. He had no interest in understanding Dharma or sharing knowledge of Dharma. He kept telling all his followers, “No one has seen God, but you can see your Guru. Therefore, you should only serve your Guru. Keep repeating the one mantra given by the Guru, and there is no need to know anything else.”

A religious teacher is supposed to give knowledge of Dharma, but instead he was discouraging people from seeking knowledge and was only motivating them to serve the Guru. Seeing this, I realized that I had come to the wrong Guru. My original purpose was to gain knowledge of Dharma, and that was not possible there.

I told him, “I need devotion toward a guru, but I do not feel it here. I cannot cheat myself. I want to go.”
He replied, “Tomorrow is Mauni Amavasya. Tomorrow’s royal bath is very important. Join it, and then we will talk.”

That same guru later threw me out of his tent, so I avoided joining bhajan and kirtan and pretended to sleep. The next morning at 4 o’clock, the sadhus were applying bhasma and preparing for the royal bath when news came that a stampede had occurred at Triveni Sangam at 3 o’clock, and some devotees had died. The ghat was closed, and arrangements were made for people to bathe at other ghats.

We could not go to Triveni Sangam. So, the sadhu guru, two other sadhus, and I went to another ghat to take a dip in the Ganga. For the first time in my life, the news of the deaths of unknown devotees deeply hurt me. Even after bathing in the Ganga, the pain did not fade.

As soon as we returned, I told the guru, “I cannot stay here. Please forgive me and let me go.”

He said, “Bring the sadhu who brought you to me. You can leave after I speak with him.”

I went to bring that sadhu, but he was not in his tent. For a moment, I thought I might have gone to the wrong tent or that I had forgotten which tent belonged to him. Because of that, I started searching for him in all the tents of the Juna Akhada. While looking for that sadhu, I ended up losing track of my own tent as well. For a landmark, I had taken a photo of a hoarding on my mobile phone. By repeatedly checking that photo, I finally managed to find my way back to my tent.

I told the guru, “I couldn’t find that sadhu.”

The guru said, “Until I speak with that sadhu, I cannot let you go.”

Then the guru called the sadhu, and the sadhu himself came to the guru’s tent. When he arrived, before leaving, that sadhu asked me to press his feet. I thought, it’s better to press his feet for a while than have some sadhu beat the hell out of me, so I started pressing his feet.

Meanwhile, the guru and the sadhu started talking with each other. In the end, they understood that if they tried to stop someone who already wanted to run away the very next day, he might make a plan, loot everything, and then escape. So it would be better to let him go right away.

He said, “You want to go because you have to serve me. Until you serve your guru, you will not gain knowledge. You will keep wandering. Still, if you want to go, then go.”

I remained silent to avoid giving an explanation.

He asked, “Do you need any help?”
I said, “No, Guruji. Just give me your blessings.”
I took his blessings and left Juna Akhada.

Outside Juna Akhada, I sat on my bike and tried to understand his character. Whenever I sensed something strange or unusual in a person’s character, I would ask Ganesh about it. It felt as if there was another mind inside me—its name was Ganesh.

Kedi: Why was that Guru asking people to serve him instead of giving knowledge of Dharma?

Ganesh: He was Takshak Nag. You went to him carrying the scriptures of Dharma, and he turned a scripture writer into his unpaid servant.

Kedi: Takshak Nag existed in the Mahabharata. He was the one who bit King Parikshit, which caused the king’s death. How can he exist in the Kumbh Mela of the Kali Yuga?

Ganesh: Takshak Nag is a gan (a type of spiritual entity). He exists in every age. They are present in the millions. They enter the bodies of fake religious gurus and bite their devotees, destroying their original identity. Takshak Nag first made King Parikshit his devotee, then turned him into his disciple and erased his identity as a king. That is what is meant by “biting” or “devouring.”

Kedi: I also want to become a religious guru. Can Takshak Nag enter inside me as well?

Ganesh: Takshak Nag only enters the body of those who desire to become fake religious gurus, and he helps them become such gurus. As soon as Takshak Nag enters the body of a fake guru, that guru begins to bite his devotees and servants.

Kedi: Would Takshak Nag have bitten me as well?

Ganesh: You are already poor. No Takshak Nag would want to become poor by biting you.

Kedi: How can someone become poor by biting a poor person?

Ganesh: To bite or rob someone requires time, energy, and money. No Takshak Nag would want to waste his time and resources robbing a poor man.

Kedi: When I become rich, what should I do so that no Takshak Nag can bite me?

Ganesh: Through self-reflection, Takshak Nag will not be able to harm you. Self-reflection will help you realize whether Takshak Nag is robbing you or turning you into a servant. You will understand it yourself.

Kedi: Is serving a guru the same as becoming a servant?

Ganesh: When you willingly serve someone for free out of love, that is devotion. But when someone manipulates you into serving them for free, that is slavery.

Kedi: How many Takshak Nags might there be at the Kumbh Mela?

Ganesh: It is not necessary that every fake guru has a Takshak Nag within them. Some people lack the talent for it, so Takshak Nag does not enter them. They only enter those who possess at least some kind of talent. There is a total of eight types of Nag Ganas, and they transform people into eight different types of religious personalities.

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. Spirits that descend into human bodies and turn them into unrighteous gurus who promote conversion away from Dharma are called Kaliya 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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