Osian's Auction Catalogue Indian Antiquities Modern Contemporary Fine Arts and Books | April 2017

52 | Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art 23 Late Mughal School from Lucknow Siddha Yogis (Members) of the Nath Sampradaya lineage with Saint and Mahayogi Goraksh (Gorakh) Nath (Founder of the Nath Order), Raja Gopi Chand and others as part of the scene Opaque pigments and gold on wasli paper, c.1800-10 / early 19th century 16.0 x 12.4 in (40.6 x 31.4 cm) Provenance Important International Art Collection; acquired from Christie’s, New York 20th March 2008 Auction: The Scholar’s Vision- The Pal Family Collection. Formerly from the Collection of Eminent Indian, Southeast Asian & Himalayan Art & Culture Scholar & Curator Dr. Pratapaditya Pal INR 4,000,000 – 6,000,000 USD 59,700 – 89,550 A Brief Note regarding Mahayogi Goraksh (Gorakh) Nath (Founder of the Nath Order) outlook: “He always remained away from creating too many theoretical conceptions, and even his most philosophical book S iddha Siddhanta Paddhati , counted by modern researchers as being only semi-philosophical work. This is not matter of big wonder, because he himself stated in the beginning of this book, that it is impossible to express Absolute truth by written words, yet with purpose to bring ideas of Enlightened Siddha Yogis in front of the masses by attempting to express them. In such a way, by stepping away from all possible future disputes, by accepting that from point of Absolute truth, all what he going to narrate, is only relative truth and only one of many points of view. He always insisted that Higher Spiritual reality can be realised and experienced only individually in proccess of Yogic practises and can’t be defined by debates.” – Rpt. in https://sites.google.com/site/ nathasiddhas/goraksh-nath