MAHAVATAR BABAJI

BABAJI

Babaji was named Nagaraj (king of serpents) by his parents.  Nagaraj met Siddha Bhogarnathar and became his disciple. Nagaraj performed intensive yogic sadhana for long with him. Bhogarnather inspired Nagaraj to seek initiation into Kriya Kundalini Pranayam from Siddha Agastya.


Babaji is a great master of yoga living today in the Himalayas who is sometimes called Kriya Babaji Nagaraj, Mahavatar Babaji or Shiva Baba. His body has not aged since the age of sixteen when he conquered death and attained a supreme state of enlightenment.


"Babaji" simply means "revered father or grandfather," and many gurus and masters are called Babaji. But this Babaji is about 5,000 years old, a true immortal. In a moving scene from the book, Babaji promises to remain in a physical embodiment until the end of this earth cycle. He is called a "Mahavatar," the teacher of avatars.Much of the time Babaji dwells in the Himalayas near the pilgrimage town of Badrinath, India, with a small band of disciples. He is unapproachable physically, because to be with his immortal body, our own body would be "fried."Babaji, the immortal master of the Himalayas written about in Autobiography of a Yogi. About 5,000 years old, ever youthful, he is a great server of humanity. Babaji has every power: he travels by thought, and manifests anything needed from the air. He has promised to always stay in his physical body .


Babaji mostly works in obscurity, even while serving as a spiritual mentor to scores of masters. He has guided the destiny of India and her people, yet he is perhaps one of the most accessible of siddhayogis to walk in our midst in recent times. Over two millennia, Babaji has continued to nurture hundreds of accomplished disciples.Now retiring to a lonely Himalayan cave, he remained absorbed in intensive Yogic sadhana for years at a stretch, finally to emerge LAUGHING AT THE LIMITATIONS OF DEATH.

BABAJI AND 18 SIDDHAS

Shiva Puranas are filled with stories which describe how Lord Shiva, (the name for God among a major sect of Hinduism) has sat in meditation on Mt. Kailas, Tibet since time immemorial. He is worshipped by the yogis as Lord, and by all the gods as the supreme Lord. The history of the Siddha tradition begins millions of years ago with the story of Lord Shiva's initiation of his consort or Shakti, Parvati Devi, into Kriya Kundahni Pranayama (the scientific art of mastering the breath) in a huge cave at Amarnath in the Kashmir Himalayas (Ramaiah, 1968, p. 108). Later Yogi Shiva initiated others, including the Siddha Agastyar and the Siddhas Nandi Devar and Thirumoolar on Mount Kailas in Tibet. Agastyar subsequently initiated Babaji.

BABAJI'S CAVE

Like great yogis, Babaji can supposedly materialize, dematerialize and take on any form at will. He may choose to present himself as an old man, an animal or a bird. He once promised a devotee that he would attend a feast at the man's house, but seemingly did not. When the man later questioned him, Babaji replied: "I was there. I was the dog whom you fed the leftovers."

Babaji can travel anywhere in the universe. When he is too busy to do so, he sends specific instructions to his chosen disciples through birds. He's taught a chosen few how to discern birdcalls, and it may well be that the pigeon stridently cooing at your window is actually a messenger from the great seer!

Babaji mostly works in obscurity, even while serving as a spiritual mentor to scores of masters. He has guided the destiny of India and her people, yet he is perhaps one of the most accessible of siddhayogis to walk in our midst in recent times. Over two millennia, Babaji has continued to nurture hundreds of accomplished disciples.