OM NAMAH SHIVAYA

Welcome to the Path of Babaji
Although Babaji lived in a Hindu -culture and usually is worshipped by Hindu rituals, He was not connected to any religion at all. It was his conception that all religions are one and each unique path will bring the true devotee to God. Babaji followers include Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews and Sikhs. Therefore Babaji always said: "Follow the religion of your heart".

As Jesus came on earth to redeem mankind from the evil by his personal suffering, Babaji also took human form. Babaji's path, however was different.  Wars fought to destroy evil are only the tip of the iceberg.  The basis of evil or illness within mankind is hardly disturbed by these conflicts between good and evil. 

Therefore Babaji's mission sometimes is summaries as the following: "The most important work that has to be done is to change the hearts and thoughts of mankind: only in that way can all living beings become happy". His teachings are summaries in three words :"Truth, Simplicity and Love".

This is what Babaji did during his stay on this earth from 1970-1984.  He selected a few people from different countries, cultural backgrounds and occupational groups. He taught them how to trust in God, to find the divine power within and let go of our ego and surrender ourselves completely to God.

Yogananda and Babaji: A Story of Two Masters

Babaji is a 10,000 year-old Immortal Being and Ascended Master whose mission is to bring about the evolution of human consciousness. Babaji's disciples think of him as the incarnation of Lord Shiva, and so believe that he is present everywhere.

Babaji is said to have spent centuries as a recluse in the Himalayas, performing intense penance and meditation  to attain enlightenment. Many of his disciples believe that he moves around in the interior recesses of the Himalayas accompanied by a group of highly evolved American, European and Indian disciples.

Seldom was Babaji spoken of earlier, because of his self-negating approach to enlightenment. Babaji pioneered Kriya Yoga, the form of yoga envisioned by krishna in the Bhagavad Gita. He believed that the yogi must allow his consciousness to expand to be ''undifferentiated'' with the Almighty who is the "Ultimate Reality''. Self-dedication is surrendering the ego and loving humankind. Selfless service is service performed with detachment, without expecting returns. To attain this, Babaji put forth five major kriya yogas: Hatha yoga,  kundalini pranayam, dhyanasana, mantra yoga and bhakti yoga.

Paramhansa Yogananda played a major role in popularising Babaji's principles worldwide through promoting Kriya Yoga. Yogananda came to America in 1920, and was the first of India's yoga masters to make his home in the west. He was a tireless lecturer, extolling the benefits of meditation and yoga to millions of Americans over the next 32 years. He taught the mystical, original teachings of Christ, and emphasized the underlying unity of all religions. He described his spiritual teachers in his Autobiography, including many remarkable details of the life of Swami Yukteswar, Lahiri Mahasaya, and Babaji, who instructed Yogananda to bring the ancient teachings of India to the West. Those teachings include Kriya Yoga and other techniques of meditation, breath, and energy control, which help calm the mind and develop inner, spiritual awareness

Kri means 'action' and ya means 'awareness". So kriya means action through awareness. Yoga unites the individual self with the cosmic self through expansion of consciousness. The yogi controls breath, channels his energy to revolve upwards and downwards around the six spinal centres and thus spiritually magnetises his body cells. Half-a-minute of kriya equals a year of a natural spiritual hug.

Yogananda mentioned that Babaji had initiated Adi Shankaracharya and mediaeval saint-poet Kabir into Kriya Yoga. A Kriya Yoga devotee is capable of taking various shapes - through the process of transformation - as a tree, a swan, a bird, an animal, or any other living thing. He can even become invisible. Life becomes a wilful expanse for the yogi and distance is not an eventual reality. Some Kriya Yogis transport themselves as beams of light.

The Kriya Yogi arrests the deterioration of body capacity by infusing an additional supply of prana (life force) through quietening of actions of lungs and heart. He neutralises decay and growth, and learns how the life force is controlled.

Krishna has depicted how desire, fear and anger can be banished through a sensory mode, gazing. The non-flinching gaze has magical effects. The guru's fixed gaze upon the middle point of eyebrows of the disciple will exude-de a tremendous healing force. This can also be attained by neutralising the current of prana and aprana (devoid of the life force) within the nostrils and lungs.

Babaji preached attainment of soruba samadhi.It is another form of high yoga in which an individual surrenders to the Divine Will and allows that Will to transform his human nature.

BABAJI BLESSINGS:

I AM NOT HERE TO CONVINCE YOU OF ANYTHING.
I AM NOT HERE TO BE RECOGNIZED.
I AM NOT A SHOW, NOT AN ENTERTAINMENT.

I AM ONLY HERE TO SERVE.
I AM ONLY HERE TO SHARE MY MESSAGE
OF TRUTH, SIMPLICITY, LOVE AND SERVICE.

I WANT YOU TO WALK ON THE HIGH PATH.
I WANT YOU TO BE INDEPENDENT THINKERS.
I WANT YOU TO FIGHT THE CORRUPTION OF FREEDOMS,
OF THE POOR, OF THE LAND, SEA, AND AIR.
I WANT YOU TO BREAK AWAY FROM THE LOWER SELF,
THAT PART WHICH DEMANDS MORE AND MORE,
ONLY TO BRING YOU MISERY AND DESPAIR.
I AM NO-ONE.
I AM NO-THING.
I AM ALWAYS WITH YOU.

BABAJI