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Kaula-jnana-nirnaya he is also mentioned as Macchaghna, which means the 'killer of fish'.
So Matsyendranath, Minanath and Luipa are identical and known under different names, in different sources.
The Doctrines of Luipa and Matsyendra
We have mentioned above that Luipa and Matsyendra flourished at the same time viz. tenth century A. D. and that they are identical. In the list available from Tibetan sources we find Luipa's name in the very beginning. His name in Sanskrit would be Matsyantrad or Matsyodara, which is associated with the intestines of a fish. Luipa is described as a Buddhist sage, originally belonging to the fisherman caste. While Luipa is considered to be the first Siddhacharya (preceptor who has attained perfection). Matsyendra was accepted as the first Natha Guru.
The Siddhacharyas wrote the Caryas or verses which Shastri discovered in Nepal arrd published them as being “thousand years old Bengali verses". Luipa is known to be one of the earliest of these verse-writers. Luipa wrote another book conjointly with Dipankar Srijnana, from whose date we can fix Luipa's date as the second half of the tenth century, and the date of composition of this book as the beginning of the eleventh century.
Bagchi has published some MSS. with Kaula-jnana- nirnaya by Matsyendranath and has proved that these were composed in the eleventh century.
The doctrines preached by Luipa in these old verses and by Matsyendra (Minanath) In the Akula Vira Tantra under the collection named Kaula-jnana-nirnaya, both relate to the ways of attaining supreme bliss of sahaja samadhi' (i. e., easy fixation of the mind in the Supreme Bliss). It is curious to note that Matsyendra of the Natha cult has been deified in Nepal as Avalokitesvar, and is still honoured as such. We can only repeat therefore that Luipa and Matsyendra were one and the same person.
The doctrine of Luipa as found in the Caryas is as follows:- Luipa says that the mind is solely responsible for creating the illusory world. The world as seen by human beings is
