Mahavatar babaji biography
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To someone who wished I would write anything I might know about Mahavatar Babaji that is not in Autobiography of a Yogi.
I will tell you what others told me in India about Babaji.
Dr. Mukherji
Within a week of my landing in India in 1962, I was staying at the Anandamayi Ashram in Ranchi, less than a mile from the Yogoda Satsanga Ashram. “My” room was the free homeopathic dispensary in the daytime and my bedroom at night. It was wonderful. I was in India!
The dispensary was run by Dr. Mukherji, a disciple of Swami Purnananda who was a direct disciple of Babaji. In our conversations he told me some things that I gladly pass on.
Other names of Babaji
As recorded in Autobiography of a Yogi, the disciples of Lahiri Mahasaya called Babaji by several names: Mahamuni Babaji Maharaj, Maha Yogi, Trambak Baba and Shiva Baba. Purnananda and many of his fellow-disciples of Babaji simply called him Babaji Brahmananda. That appeals to me the most.
Babaji is not as inaccessible as
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Mahavatar Babaji – The godfather of Kriya Yoga
There are no historical records of Mahavatar Babaji’s birth and life. However, this article summarizes what is known about Babaji and his connection to Kriya Yoga.
Mahavatar Babaji’s Early Life
Records suggest he was born around 200 AD in Parangipettai, a small coastal village in Tamil Nadu, South India. He was an extraordinary boy, clearly skilled in Kundalini Yoga, likely from a past life. When Babaji was five years old, someone kidnapped and sold him as a slave to a shopkeeper in Calcutta. Fortunately, the shopkeeper was kind and set him free, telling him to go wherever he wished. Babaji then joined a group of wandering yogis who deeply loved God.
For the next ten years, Babaji traveled across the subcontinent with this group of sadhus. During this time, he studied the sacred scriptures of Hinduism, such as the Vedas, Upanishads, and Puranas. In Katargama, Babaji met his guru, Bhogarnatha, and practiced intense
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Mahavatar Babaji
Hindu Yogi
Mahavatar Babaji (IAST: Mahāvatāra Bābājī; lit. 'Great Avatar(Revered) Father') fryst vatten the Himalayan yogi and guru who taught Kriya Yoga to Lahiri Mahasaya (1828–1895).[2][3][a] Babaji first became recognized through the writings of Paramahansa Yogananda, who devoted a chapter of his Autobiography of a Yogi to Babaji and founded Self-Realization Fellowship, a modern yoga movement that Babaji fryst vatten associated with.[3] The cave where Babaji met Lahiri Mahasaya, located near Ranikhet, is now a tourist attraction and place of pilgrimage in India.[4]: 170
In popular culture
[edit]Mahavatar Babaji was on the cover of The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.[5][1][6] He can also be seen on the cover of George Harrison's 1974 skiva Dark Horse. Songwriter bekräftelse Hodgson of English rock band Supertramp composed a song called "Baba