Vijay’s wife was always complaining about his ascetic ways and all the time he spent spreading the message (for which Babaji had commissioned him) of the Maha Mantra and the time spent with his disciples–much like the wife of Babaji’s disciple, Lahiri Mahasaya.Īfter days and days of this fussing, as his wife was continuing on and on with her complaints, Vijay silently prayed: “Gurudeva, please free me from this misery!” Immediately his wife found herself in the Himalayas with Babaji and his holy band. Vijay and his wife were in Brindaban where Krishna lived until the age of twelve. I can tell you an amusing story about Babaji’s rescuing Vijay from his shrewish wife–at least for a while. He was of the Vaishnava philosophy and taught to his disciples and the public in general the continual repetition and singing of the Maha (Great) Mantra that is found in the Kalisantara Upanishad: The renowned Bengali saint, Vijay Krishna Goswami (also in the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna) was a disciple of Babaji. But there are two of his disciples whose teaching contradict this.

Furthermore, it is believed that Kriya Yoga is the only practice favored by Babaji.

What I have written here shows this is not true. It is assumed that he only had one disciple “in the world,” Lahiri Mahasaya. There is also a misperception about Babaji and his spiritual mission. When his even more famous son, Rabindranath Tagore, was in his teens Devendranath sent him to live with Babaji for three years. Mukherji that the famous Devendranath Tagore (see the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna), a Bengali philosopher and religious reformer, was a disciple of Babaji and spent quite some time with him in the Himalayas. Swami Purnananda stayed with Babaji more than one time in the Himalayas, sometimes for years. And though comparatively speaking few people stay with him, there is a small trickle of aspirants who come to spend some time with him. He does not just roam in solitude in the Himalayas with only a handful of disciples with him. That appeals to me the most.īabaji is not as inaccessible as many people think. Purnananda and many of his fellow-disciples of Babaji simply called him Babaji Brahmananda. In our conversations he told me some things that I gladly pass on.Īs 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. Mukherji, a disciple of Swami Purnananda who was a direct disciple of Babaji. “My” room was the free homeopathic dispensary in the daytime and my bedroom at night. 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. I will tell you what others told me in India about Babaji. To someone who wished I would write anything I might know about Mahavatar Babaji that is not in Autobiography of a Yogi.

An autobiography of a yogi