Siddharameshwar Maharaj is the bridge figure between the founder of the Inchagiri Sampradaya, Bhausaheb Maharaj, and his famous students Nisargadatta and Ranjit Maharaj. Born in 1888 in Pathri, near Sholapur in Maharashtra, he met Bhausaheb in 1906 and was given the I-am-Brahman mantra to investigate. Nine years of investigation followed before his recognition stabilised.
His systematic teaching is known as the four-bodies method: the gross body, the subtle body, the causal body, and the supracausal body. The student is led through each layer in turn, finding what is true at each level and then setting it aside as the inquiry continues. Beyond the supracausal lies the parabrahman, the absolute that cannot be reached because nothing has ever left it.
The Inchagiri lineage descends through him to Nisargadatta Maharaj and Ranjit Maharaj, and through them to a wide circle of contemporary Western teachers.
