Reminiscences
Babaji and Bahin
Babaji and Bahin Many cows came to eat daily at Babaji’s ashram. Some of them belonged to the local villagers, some to ashrams and some were strays. It was not unusual for cows to give birth at the ashram especially in the winter months when they would lie...
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Babaji Doesn’t Think Anything
An American once came into the Dharmshalla and asked if I could translate for him. After looking around and asking me a few questions, he requested me to ask Babaji what Babaji thought of him. I translated the question and waited for the answer. There was...
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Leaving Mind and Intellect
One day when I was sitting with Babaji in the Dharmshalla a very simply dressed man came in and sat down quietly. After a while he asked Babaji a question. He asked, “In the scriptures it says that we should surrender our mind and intellect to Bhagwan. If...
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Answering Machine
One day I was sitting on the Math with Babaji when a large group of foreigners came. They asked Babaji many questions and I translated them to Babaji and translated his answers back to them. The questions were mostly good ones and Babaji very clearly...
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Empirical & Absolute Truth
When I first came to Babaji, he was very careful that I should learn all the rules and customs that were followed in traditional Indian society. This kindness allowed me to be more easily accepted in the group of devotees who lived with Babaji and for the...
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Babaji And Animals
Kani When I first came to Babaji there was a dog there called Kani as she only had one eye. She loved Babaji very much and whenever he went for a walk around the ashram she would follow him or walk along by his side and sometimes he would play with her....
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The Importance Of Guru
Babaji said that the guru has two hands, one to slap and the other to support. Babaji used both of these hands to teach and guide us away from our worldly egos towards a better understanding and towards Bhagwan. When I had been with Babaji for about one year a family...
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Significance of Self-Evaluation in Spiritual Life
Babaji’s teaching were often gentle and explanatory but sometimes when we failed to understand the first time then his teaching sometimes became short and pithy and as such really struck home. An example of these two ways of teaching can be seen in the...
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A Dying Woman Recovers: A Miracle
One day I was sitting with Babaji on the Math. It was a very hot summer’s day and Babaji and I were sitting in a tiny piece of shade on a rocky outcrop near to the cave where I did my sadhana. Babaji was being gracious enough to answer some of my sadhana...
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Equality Of All Living Beings
At Babaji’s ashram the straw for feeding the cows (gausewa) used to be kept on top of the dharmshala and inevitably some straw and even insects used to fall down into the dharmshala from the gaps between the sleepers which formed the dharmshala roof. One day Geli Mai,...
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