International

Haidakhandi Journal

March 2014

Bhairava

Lord Bhairava
Bheru Baba
Kalbhairav
Page No.

Babaji the Unfathomable

Shri Munirajjis words
Bhairava

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Exerting Ourselves ~ 17th Karmapa

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News from Around the World

USA - by Maheshanand and Ramloti
Russia - The Drozhzhino Ashram Project
Italys newest Bhole Baba centre
Berlin by Elizabeth
Australia and France
Estonia courses in the Art of Conscious Change

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Haidakhandi Samaj - News from India

Spring Navaratri invitation and Chairpersons Messages
Messages from the General Secretary
Medical Camps and Hospital Reports

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Letters and Articles sent to the Journal

On Prayer, Meditation & Contemplation by Raghu
Regarding Hospital Activities - by Bipin Agarwal
On Babajis Samadhi Day - 30 years on - by Lok Nath
Babaji Disciples Undercover - by Kamini, Germany
In Memoriam and Shri Sadashiva Charitamrit
Gurupurnima Schweibenalp Switzerland - July 2014
Editorial
by Rob and Gaby
Photos of Haidakhan friends

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Never doubt My love, not even when I send you

challenges and tests, both inside you and in the outside
world, because everything is for your highest good and for
your inner growth.
Always, whenever you call Me inwardly, I am already
there, waiting to draw you into My heart.
Be always ready for anything and My blessings will have
no end.
Babaji The Unfathomable

Shri Munirajji
It is normal to have difficulties, always difficulties come and difficulties
go. The difficulties make us stronger; they always teach us something.
When people really love Babaji and really have this connection with
Him, they can never really have difficulties or problems. When they
have devotion and love for Babaji, they can never be really in trouble.
As far as I understand, things will change but nothing like a total end
of the world scenario. Change is part of nature, but there wont be
anything final or total. People should not worry, they should get on
with their work and repeat Gods name. Change is the law of nature.
As in politics, within minutes someone can lose their cool with serious
consequences, but this is not in our hands, therefore do not worry.
There is no need to fear anything or be afraid of anything that will
happen in the future. Mans duty is to do his work, because if he does
his work in all sincerity it becomes the duty of the Divine to look after
him.
Extracts from various interviews between 1986 and 2012
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Bhairav Baba and His association with the Caduceus

Bhairava (Sanskrit:
, ("Terrible" or
"Frightful") is the
fierce manifestation
of Lord Shiva
associated with
annihilation

In the late 1970s one day, Malti brought a wooden caduceus from Findhorn.
Babaji kept it with him for fourteen days and everybody had to bow to it.
Babaji said that it was the symbol for Bhairav Baba who is the true healer. It
was clear that the caduceus image was His sign.
Sometime later Nila had a caduceus stick made in bronze for her sacred
garden near Lake Konstanz. After some time there was a big fire which
burnt down the entire garden temple, including the temple bells. The only
item that survived was the bronze caduceus, from which a distinct blue
colour arose, the colour of a heavenly blue flame, which apparently is the
colour associated with Bhairav Baba. Nila reports that this indicated to her
that the whole event was a divine showing. This was fully confirmed by the
events that happened after the inferno: the arrival of many divine beings in
the magic temple garden of Quell des Heilens (Source of Healing). Amongst
them a clear vision of Christ, Babaji and the Divine Mother.
To read the whole story see Nila Caddys Book: Encounters with Babaji page 154.

Nilas story tells of divine interception and the transformational power of

destruction that can lead to a more expanded state of consciousness. Her
burning temple and the appearance of Bhairav Baba resonates with the
famous 17th century haiku poet Mizuta Masahide:

The barn has burnt down

Now I can see the moon
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Bhairav Baba by Kharku

I felt that Babaji came in the form of Bhairav. When Babaji left his body and I
was trying to understand the form of worship we were practicing here, a
devotee used an image to explain to me the deities beginning with Ganesh,
and then Bhairav and Hanuman who each flanked the Mother and Father at
the centre. The Mother/feminine principle represents all creation and
everything we experience; the Father/masculine principle represents where
or what we go to beyond human experience. Ganesh is wisdom and the
remover of obstacles and Hanuman is our breath of devotion, he marries the
feminine and masculine sides within us. Finally Bhairav is the form of Shiva
that removes the dust of ignorance and clears our fears of uniting with the
divine. He is the fearless side of Shiva who accepts no nonsense and he can
appear violent as he cuts through ignorance. In reality he is our healer, and
as young Bhairav he runs beside the divine Mother who is on her tiger, with
Hanuman running on the other side. As he runs he carries the peacock
feather representing energy healing.
Bhairav Baba: honour him at twilight
Shastriji said that we should honour Bhairav Baba every evening, best at
twilight. His day of honour is Sunday. Sunday starts on Saturday evening, so
the best time to connect with him is then, Saturday evening at twilight. To
make your appeal bring him some sweets, or even better: a whole cake !
Bhairav Baba by Peter Dawkins, Quell des Heilen's 1992
I am Bhairav Baba; I am the deep rich ruby red wine of human love
The fire of love in which nothing that is not love can exist
I burn away everything that is not love as I am only love
I am tender, sweet and kind
I'm not to be feared
But many fear my fire of love because they dwell in their impurities.
Only that which is impure has fear of me
for I am like a roaring lion
devouring the meat of poisoned tongues and evil minds
But to those who love I am like a rose that opens her eyes to the sun
I am like the ground on which she sighs with her lovers moan
I am love beyond love
He who knows me, knows all

Kala Bhairava is Shiva in the form of Time. He is the Guru of the planetary
deity Shani (Saturn). Also known as Kalbhairav he is seen as a mendicant
(beggar) with a begging bowl in hand. The begging bowl was not just any
vessel; it was the skull of Brahma's fifth head. He is depicted ornamented
with a range of twisted serpents, which serve as earrings, bracelets, anklets,
and sacred thread (yajnopavita), He wears a tiger skin and a ritual apron
composed of human bones. Bhairava has a dog (Shvan) as his divine vahana
(vehicle). Bhairavi is also seen as a fierce and terrifying aspect of the Devi
who is virtually indistinguishable from Kali. His temples or shrines are
present within or near most Jyoti lingum temples, the sacred twelve shrines
dedicated to Shiva across India, including Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Varanasi
and the Mahakaleshwar Temple at Ujjain, where at the Kal Bhairav Temple,
he is worshipped by the Kapalika and Aghori sects of Shaivism. There are
Bhairavnath temples in Uttarakhand at Kedarnath, Bhairon Ghati before
Gangotri, Bageshwar, Devprayag and finally Eight Bhairava Temples in
Almora.

Om bum batukaya apadut haranaya

kuru kuru batukaya bum om namaha shivay
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German Housewife wants to meet Bhairav !

14 years ago I visited for the first time the Babaji Ashram (in Germany) with
my family and I realized that Babaji had led me there. Shortly afterwards, I
had just been for a week in the ashram, being home again I read a book about
Indian Gods, because I knew nothing about Hinduism. There were a few
sentences written about Bhairav. They said that Bhairav leads us to love by
burning away everything that is not love. I could hardly find any love in myself
or in the world. But everything else the whole pain and sorrow I had
more than enough. Suddenly a desire rose up in me. I thought: This one I
want to meet! --- Where did that thought come from? Little German
housewife wants to meet Bhairav? Are you going crazy? Thats impossible!
Therefore I didnt think of my wish any more.
Two weeks later I took part in a sound bowl seminar, which my husband had
just attended. He immediately led me into the big hall. There was hanging a
huge picture of Bhairav on the wall, painted on canvas, about six meters high.
It came from the Bhairav Temple in Bhaktapur. The temple-painter had
brought it to Germany with his tankas for an exhibition. Full of
astonishments, I looked at it. In the evening there was a concert with a tabla
player, who heals people with his music. When finally everybody had gone
to bed, I thought: I will creep into the hall to have one more look at
Bhairav. I wanted to worship him, but I didnt know how to do it. Then I
recognized that Bhairav was standing on a little human being and dancing. I
knew at once what to do: I lay down under the picture and looked up to this
god dancing in the fire. It was a tremendous feeling! My mind tried to calm
me, but my heart was beating wildly. So I lay there for a long time, very
awake and quite anxiously. Finally I went to bed.
After about an hour I woke up, clear as glass in my head, and heard once
again the concert with every single tabla beat. There was no one playing
music there, but nonetheless it was in the air. Then something happened,
which I had never experienced before. I didnt know how to cope with it. I
was in the same bedroom, but it sort of became transparent and another
reality showed itself. There was a huge triangle, about six meters high, its top
pointed up, a lively shimmering white, and it had the same presence as the
picture of Bhairav. I was so afraid! This really couldnt be. I closed my eyes, I
opened them again, I pinched myself, I went out of the room and back again,
but the triangle stayed there. When I couldnt stand it anymore, I even went

into another room for a few minutes to write in my diary. When I went back,
the presence was still there. So I accepted that I couldnt flee and just lay
down in my bed again. Now something like a film went through me: a whole
lot of pictures mixed with memories and strong feelings. It was all about
being born, giving birth to a child, having a mother, being myself a mother,
even despairing because of an abortion, and at last being operated on at the
cervix (if you translate the German word for it directly, it means `mouth of
the mother`). When the pictures vanished, there stayed a white ray of light
starting from my cervix. All this just happened to me.
After some time I became very calm and saw myself suddenly in the dhuni in
the ashram. The photo of Babaji, where he sits at the dhuni pouring oil onto
the fire, merged with the picture of the dhuni, so that he himself was sitting
at this dhuni. Being very exhausted I sat down at the fire, looked into the
flames and thought: It is over now. Suddenly I saw a plate of rice on the
ground before me. I took a handful of rice and threw it into the fire and
together with the rice I flew myself into the fire. The last thing I remember is
flying through the air. Then my consciousness wasnt there anymore.
The next morning I heard the alarm clock ringing and felt completely
refreshed. I could remember every detail of that night and I remember
everything even after 14 years. During these years Bhairav has burned away
a lot of my pain and sorrow. The last pain was a very big and deep pain.
First it dissolved on the level of the thoughts and emotions, but it took a
whole year, until it dissolved at last on the level of the body. Shortly before
Gurupurnima 2013 the doctor had told me that it would take about another
six months to get all the poison out of my body. But after Gurupurnima a
test showed that I was completely free from the illness and healthy again.
One more thing: I dont feel I have to DO anything to have love in
my life: it comes quite imperceptibly and completely by itself as soon as I
make space for it. What I have learned is this: the moment I disidentify from
my pain and sorrow and create even the tiniest bit of space, love enters into
that space imperceptibly and naturally and on its own accord. All I have to
do is make space for it.
Thank you Bhairav !

Thank you Babaji !

Bhole Baba ki jai !

Exerting Ourselves ~ 17th Karmapa ~

Formal practice, as important as it is, needs to spread into our daily life.
Sometimes people treat the practice of Dharma as though its a form of
relaxation or entertainment. Dharma practice is not done for fun. People say
to me that theyre busy and tired, and theyre looking forward to their
vacation. During their vacation, theyre going to relax by practicing Dharma.
They talk about it as though its like going to a spa or getting a massage or
going to a park. I think this is a mistake.
Dharma practice is not supposed to be fun; it is an intensive exercise, like
military training. It is gaining the ability through difficult practice to
experience difficulties without great hardship. It is gaining the ability to put on
the armour of fortitude that enables you not to make a big deal out of
suffering. So its exertive, much in the same way that physical exercise is
exertive. When we engage in physical exercise, we dont think of it as fun in
the conventional sense. We are sweating and huffing and puffing. In the same
way as exercise, Dharma is mental exercise, and it makes us sweat mentally.
(From Every Virtuous Thought Brings Us Closer To Our Future Buddhahood. Session Four
of His Holiness the Karmapas Teaching at KTD, July 19, 2011; Translator: Lama Yeshe
Gyamtso; Transcriber: Jeanette DeFries)

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News from Around the World

My Vision Quest to Crestone (CO) USA - by Maheshanand
16th December 2013 - 1st January 2014
In 2012 the ashram Sada Shiva Dham from Holland organized an auction for
fundraising for the new Babaji temple. Ramloti of the Haidakhandi Universal
Ashram in the USA donated a trip for two persons to several spiritual
centres around the small village of Crestone, Colorado. Bhaskarananda from
Holland was the lucky guy who won this auction prize, and in the fall of 2013
he invited me to join him on this trip. Our plan was to travel in the last two
weeks of 2013.
Early 2013 I had travelled in Tibet; so I was totally surprised to find a kind of
landscape in the USA with a lot of resemblance with the Tibetan landscape.
The altitude was about 2500m, where Lhasa is situated at about 3500m. In
Tibet there is almost nothing growing there, and here - in the San Luis Valley
- it looked the same. Later I realized that it was the snow which gave me this
impression! Nevertheless we were asked to drink a lot of water, just like in
Tibet.

The resemblance even goes further: in the 19th century gold diggers were
active in that area; so there must be gold in the ground, just as in Tibet; and
there must be monasteries all around. Of course in Tibet I visited several
temples and monasteries; and here in and around the village of Crestone
several Tibetan and Bhutanese centres are situated, beautiful temples are
springing up and Stupas of various sizes are erected, high in the mountains.

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So, there is an obvious magic in the place, situated in this sacred valley once
reserved for vision quests by the Native Americans. But the magic is not
limited to the Native Americans or the Tibetans: there are also Japanese,
Christian, Muslim, Hindu, and Zen centres and temples, among others.
In the late seventies, a mountain man visioned it this way: many of the
worlds great religions and great truths would gather and begin working for a
better future for the world and mankind, and that the region would be the
laboratory of the future. In 1988 the Manitou foundation came into being to
provide land grants and financial support to religions, environmental and
educational projects in the Baca Grande area and beyond. At present, the
population of the Crestone/Baca area continues to grow and people seek the
small-town atmosphere, the breathtaking beauty of the mountains, and the
sanctity and cultural diversity of the area.
The goals of our travel schedule were as follows:
1. Getting information about energy and water supply
2. Personal puja training
3. Information exchange with a small group of devotees
4. Travel plan to spiritual centres.
1. Energy and water supply
We learned that water and energy, heating and warm water supply, were a
crucial factor in the design of the Babaji temple and chalets in Sada Shiva
Dham ashram; both from a technical as well as financial point of view. In
Holland we had calculated that a geothermal system would be optimal, but
after running it for a year it turns out that the system was costlier than
expected. So we were very interested in the solution of solar energy in HUA.
What we learned was that there are big differences in the natural ecological
conditions of both ashrams. In Crestone the sun is always shining and the
water supply is costly. In Holland only sometimes the sun shines brightly. So
in Holland we would need a solar energy storage capacity, but this is not yet
available with its, as yet, unproven technology. So, for future development of
our energy systems here in Holland we need better technology than is
currently available.
2. Personal Puja training
In one of the early days of the visit I was invited to support the pujari with
her work on the daily puja of Maa and some other Murtis. At that time I had
only limited knowledge about the puja ritual and mantras. My knowledge had

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been based on the brochure "The use of Murtis as worship aid and
meditation device", published in 1996 by the Sada Shiva Dham ashram in
Holland. I already was familiar with the short form of puja; now it became
time to train in the long form of puja. Rita, the pujari of HUA, was coaching
me and she did a wonderful job! She performed her tasks with so much love
and patience! The puja to the Mother was especially impressive for me. In
Babas kutir it happened that I became an assistant-pujari: I was allowed to
bring Babas padukas to the temple !
Hooshaar, Savedam

Start of the Havan in HUA.

The Temple is behind with Babaji's kutir on the left

3. Exchange of communication with small groups

The visit turned out to be a great opportunity to communicate with other
small Babaji groups and individuals. Gurupurnima in Europe and the Indian
celebrations provide an initial a basis for networking; but small scale
exchanges of information between groups have additional advantages. This
type of contact should be encouraged and social media websites can be the
medium. Meeting all those spiritual people at different places, combined with
my puja training, brought me in contact with the old principles of vision quest
inherited from the original Native Americans. The purpose of such a vision
quest is - simple to find your path in life.

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4. Travel plan to other spiritual centres

It is too much to describe all those impressions and contacts with all those
lovely people. It was like a warm bath: we were heartily welcomed
everywhere we went. It was overwhelming, and cannot be described in this
journal.
From the bottom of my heart I want to thank the members of the
Haidakhandi Universal Ashram staff, Rita, Prem and Jonathan, who made this
tour so special. A special thank is of course for Ramloti; without her love,
initiatives, network and inspiration this tour would not have been possible.
Last but not least I would say "thanks" to my spiritual guides on this track
where a call by the Mother became manifest for me.
Travelling with Babaji - by Ramloti, Haidakhandi Universal Ashram USA
When Shri Babaji travelled from home to home He would bless His devotees
with His Divine Presence. There was always so much anticipation and
preparation before His arrival, so much excitement as He arrived, and finally
such deep devotion when He was there. Although the physical form that did
all this left our mortal view thirty years ago, this tradition still continues
around the world.
The padukas (the wooden sandals that He wore) carry His Divine energy. In
the temple here in Crestone, Colorado (as in most temples of Baba around
the world) they receive daily pujas and aaratis and are taken from the temple
to His kutir (Babajis room) each night. When they travel around the country
with representatives from the Ashram, the same anticipation, preparation,
excitement and devotion are elicited from the devotees as when He was in
physical form. In each place we have travelled in the past we have been
received with such love. From one person we received a thank you that said
it was one of the most important days of her life. Another in preparation for
His visit wrote that it was the answer to a lifelong prayer. It seems that
everyone wants to be part of these magical tours and so folks fly in from
Washington, Canada, New Mexico, St. Louis, Colorado, DC and other parts
of the country to travel with us doing fire ceremonies, paduka pujas,
presentations, aarati, and chanting.
The sacred padukas are a physical symbol of Babajis presence but His true
presence is in every exchange of love that we make in this world.

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Is it Time for Our Lords Return? By Ramloti

Something is happening and I feel it is big. I have led tours around the
country since the early 1980s and never before have the gatherings been so
full of Shri Babajis energy and love. Miracles abound and the time between
seems to have diminished. In an hour or two people experience His
presence and come to know Him, sometimes for the first time. A few fire
ceremonies bring rain to a drought area and people report other healings.
I delight in the emails and phone calls telling me about flowers that last for
weeks on Shri Babajis padukas after we leave an area. Or of the florist that
felt he met Babaji in his shop after donating 108 roses to the fire ceremony.
Another speaks about a new level of innocence in her teaching, realizing that
although she must do her part in conveying the knowledge, there is
something much bigger at work in the process that she must just surrender
to. For another, she looks forward to the gathering once a year as it is a
battery charger for her and she listens to our CD almost every day and
remembers the glow. Another says: One thing that lingered in my mind as
we met new people, sang and offered together was, This is what love looks
like.
On this tour I was inspired to bring with us Shri Babajis turban or Taj, for
people to wear when they were meditating. How many faces glowed like
they do after a week or two in Haidakhan just by wearing it for 10 minutes
or so. Here is one report:
Time stopped as we all felt the tangible
presence of Shri Babaji and Shri Muniraji bathing us in love, oneness
acceptance and bliss. My personal experience was deep and exquisite as I
felt my thoughts being rearranged by Baba for more clarity, and patterns and
beliefs no longer useful being erased and replaced by Babas compassion,
kindness, sweetness and bliss
As I write this on the 30th anniversary of Shri Babajis Mahasamadhi, I know
He is close. It is an important time to come together as devotees to
celebrate His Presence and share our stories and experiences that are
happening right now. There are enough modalities sharing the material and
negative aspects of life, so much so that many think that this is the only
reality. Sharing our miracles and love helps us all remember the larger
picture, that we are all part of the dance of our manifested Lord
Sambasadashiva.

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Russia - The Drozhzhino Ashram Project

We had a beautiful and strong start in summer 2013. I spend 3 happy
months there.
With a team of devotees: Durga Das, his son Artiom,
Jamuna, Ingala, Gautami, Gaudhavri, Katya Laksmi, Amrita and about 15
visiting devotees, we renovated the old home, cleaned up the land, built a
Dhuni on a great spot overlooking the Ugra river and planted many flowers,
bushes and trees. The house has gas, electricity, water and a toilet outside.
We have a woodstove to keep us warm and we are now moving the summer
kitchen inside. So it was a joyful, inspiring start with much happy KarmaYoga and daily Aarati's, sometimes Havan, and daily bathing in the great Ugra
River. And there is an abundance of berries, mushrooms, apples, plums,
herbs and firewood all around us. So its a small miracle to move from
almost nothing to a comfortable and lovely Ashram Home on a great nature
spot at the most beautiful corner of the village.
With the help of Giriraj, we are in the process of registering as a charitable
organisation and have a strong wish to buy a neighbouring property, with a
house on it, so we can grow the ashram-project without disturbing the
village. If you can/want to help with this please contact, Durgadas, Jamuna or
me. We still need about $50,000 to make it happen. Many possibilities open
up for the ashram-project once we take this step. We will then have three
joining plots of land with 2 houses.
Slowly we have made many good relations in the village, and some villagers
were very helpful to us, and thanks to the help and work of a great man from
the village (and with the constant support of Durga Das) our house is also
being built. So the first phase is done, with a temporary roof, next year part
two.
Now getting ready for winter, there is work to be finished and we would
like to make a small Dhuni inside.
Phuro - be inspired. It is great to see
how the inspiration of Muniraji and Babaji is working though this group to
create an ashram. There is a Facebook page:" Hairakhandi Group in
Drozhzhino", and you can become a member of this and see many pictures
and stories.
With great Love and Thanks to All, Pujari and Anjani

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Italys newest Bhole Baba centre

CENTRO YOGA IL LOTO BLU
www.illotoblu.it Verbania Intra, Lake Maggiore, Italy
After a series of dreams and spiritual readings, which gave me the
opportunity to know Shri Babaji, in 1996 my life completely changed. Until
then, I had concentrated above all on my career in the administrative and
executive sphere; but from that moment on, the door of the spiritual
dimension opened to me. I felt in my heart without any doubt that Shri
Babaji was the Guru who could inspire my personal growth.
In Milan I met an Indian teacher of Hatha Yoga (Swami Gurupooja Saraswati).
She trained me and was my source of inspiration in the ancient yoga
tradition. At the same time I often visited the Asti ashram Villa San Secondo
where I learned Herakhandi Yoga. Then during my first journeys to India I
encountered the sadhana of Shri Babaji, staying several times at the ashram in
Herakhan, where I was fortunate to meet Shri Muniraji.
In 2001 during my meditations in Babajis cave I had some intuitions which I
told to Shri Muniraji and with his approval and his blessing I decided to leave
my job at my company and dedicate my life teaching Hatha Yoga and open a
centre in Italy in order to spread Shri Babajis teachings. Pietro, my brother,
followed me on this adventure and thanks to his financial and moral
support the Blue Lotus Yoga Centre was born, first as an association
organising yoga courses in different areas around Milan, and then in Verbania,
the town where I was born and where in 2004 I came back to live.
Since then the yoga centre has developed and has spread yoga teachings and
our Gurus message about Truth, Simplicity and Love. In 2012 a small
group of my students, devotees of Herakhan Babaji, and I started the
association of social work The Blue Lotus, whose aim is to take part in our
community through volunteering - Karma yoga. We have raised funds for
humanitarian aims; we have organised yoga courses at school for children in
our town; puja in our Mandir; mantra yoga activities; the study of Sanskrit and
much more. Our association is a member of the Italian Samaj. In 2013 we
opened a new centre in a much larger space in order to welcome a great
number of students and to hold activities with the hope that we can see
them growing thanks to our Gurus blessing.
- by Grazia Ugazzi

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Berlin:
Haidakhandi Spiritual
Unity Centre
By Elizabeth

In February 1983 Shri Babaji gave order to write a letter with the following
text to seven devotees in Germany, one of them was Elisabeth from Berlin.
"Babaji has asked that an organization, affiliated with the Herakhan Samaj, be
established in Germany ... it is that you help serve Babaji in this capacity. Its
purpose is to spread out the Message of Herakhan Baba ... and we must keep
this organization focused on that...." All of the seven devotees had to inform
Babaji, whether they accept this responsibility or not. In July 1983 Elisabeth
and her husband Ramananda decided to establish a Babaji Center in Berlin.
Due to Babajis wonderful guidance, Elisabeth and Ramananda could purchase
a house in Berlin-Spandau. With the blessing of Shri Munirajji (he gave the
name:"Haidakhandi Spiritual Unity Center") the ceremonies take place in the
temple since January 1990.
Ramananda passed away on 2 April 2003.
Since October 1991, there are three murtis in the temple (Haidakhandeshvari
Ma, Durga Devi and Shiva Nataraj), all of them have been inaugurated by Shri
Munirajji. In May 1992 Shri Munirajji and Shri Shastriji came and spent four
days in Berlin. As this was a special occasion for us, we celebrated a Yagna and
Aarati in a place called "Zitadelle" in Berlin. It was a real "highlight" for the
Berlin Center! Moreover, two years ago Shri Munirajji blessed our Ganesha
and in April 2012 he inaugurated a Kalbhairav murti for our temple. In the
Center, Puja and Aarati are performed on a daily basis. Once a month we have
the ceremony of Havan and a Ganesha Puja and weekly we perform Aarati
together with the devotees. Over the years, our spiritual practice and the
number of devotees that come has been growing.
We are very grateful for Babajis guidance, protection and blessing in all these
years.

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Australia
The Ashram in Australia goes on with regular Havans and Puja and in the last
year we have celebrated the Navaratris with nine day programmes and also
Gurupurnima with a three day celebration. The work to convert a large old
building at the Ashram to a Temple and Kirtan hall goes on slowly as time
and money permit. A small but flourishing flower garden provides blooms for
the pujas. The monthly Havans and Pujas have been attended by between
approximately 12 and 20 people each time and we often see new faces.
A nine day programme is planned for the upcoming Navaratri at the end of
March and all are welcome. The Ashram is located on 16hectares (40 acres)
of forest on the slopes of Mumbulla mountain which has been a sacred place
for the indigenous people since time immemorial. From Nan Singh
Our contact details are babajiaustralia@gmail.com T: 0264953450

France
As you know perhaps, we are planning for many years to build an ashram in
France and as you know perhaps, its not done yet things go very slowly
here When Munirajji told us to make an ashram together in France, he
clearly emphasized each time the word TOGETHER rather than on the word
ashram and thats the direction taken by the Samaj in the last years. So we
are trying to bring harmony within us, and very slowly, things get better, the
last annual meeting of the Samaj was more harmonious and more easily
focussed on a together ashram and actions but how is it possible to
describe this in a journal ? Before it becomes a strong and big tree, the plant
of togetherness is so delicate: it needs a lot of constant effort, support and
nourishment as trust, respect, and love from everyone its not always easy
for any of us, and even when this plant has become a tree, it can be cut so
quickly
So we now put more of our attention on TOGERTHERNESS than on an
ASHRAM and I have no doubt that if we succeed in the first, the second will
show up very quickly.
From Mukundi mukundi@free.fr

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Estonia
Haidakhandi Shiva
Dham Ashram

The founder of Estonian Haidakhandi Shiva Dham Ashram, Ingvar Villido

(Ishwarananda) has taught people since 1992, how to become aware, how to
orientate in ones inner world and how to make conscious changes in life.
In 2008, he started to offer The Art of Conscious Change I-V courses to the
general public. In 2014, the courses will take place in Estonia, Germany,
Austria and Macedonia, plus there are invitations to give courses also in
Holland, Luxemburg and Finland.
THE ART OF CONSCIOUS CHANGE I-V
Course I: Me, My Inner World and the Five Body System
Course II: Releasing Emotions that Disturb My Life
Course III: Annulling Concepts that Disturb My Life
Course IV: Mastering Awareness, Intuition and Inspiration
Course V: Mastering Life By Conscious Use of Information, Analysis and
Action
Students gain personal experience and insights with active participation. The
acquired techniques can be immediately applied to changing your life in the
desired direction. The techniques are simple and precise. The more you use
them, the more effective they will become. While applying awareness, you
will start to experience wholeness that is complete - a sense of nondependent well-being on all levels of your existence.
Change yourself and the world will change!
Further information: lilleoru@lilleoru.ee, www.lilleoru.ee
http://www.haidakhandisamaj.org/ashrams/estonia-lilleoru-talu/

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Haidakhandi Samaj - News from India

Our chairman of the Samaj Shri Alok Banerjee would like to invite you to
the Chaitra Navaratris Celebrations of 2014 at Herakhan Vishwa

Mahadham from 31st of March to the 8th of April.

It would be highly appreciated if you could come a few days before to share
in the setting up and and afterwards for packing up - this makes these
glorious Navaratris accessible to so many people. It also gives you a chance
to enjoy the beauty and power of Babajis home in this marvellous nature
setting.
If Herakhan is too far for whatever reason do please make an effort to visit
your local ashram to contemplate and celebrate the presence of the Divine
Mother in our lives. More and more people are often present in Ashrams all
around the world and it is important to realize that we all carry Babaji in our
hearts and when we celebrate together there is more of Him present which
makes your experience uplifting and divine.
If you are unable because of work, family or sickness etc to visit the ashram
then do make the effort for a daily extra incense, flower, prayer and an extra
mala. She is Universal and is with you everywhere.
Looking forward to meeting you at Her holy Lotus feet.

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Messages from Shri Alok Banerjee:

Ashwin Navaratri 2013 at Chilianaula was concluded well and happily. For
the organization and the solid service team it was also quite challenging. In
the first days there were very few people from abroad, but as the days went
by the number swelled to 90 people from 17 countries. Another 150 people
came from around India and with that a good crowd had gathered.
Wonderful pictures with recordings of Havan with Ramayana readings and
evening Aarti can be viewed on Lal Baba's website:
http://www.planetbabaji.com/navratri_chilianaula_2013/Archiv.html
Now it is well over a year that Shri Muniraj is no longer physically present at
Navaratri and knowing that as well as the financial crises which grip the
western world probably explains the low numbers from abroad. In the void
that Shri Muniraj left there was also some readjustment in the organization
which created some upheaval but we hope that is all behind us now. When
we celebrate Navaratri as stipulated by Babaji and organized so well for
almost 30 years by Shri Muniraj, something amazing happens with the Divine
presence in such days.
This darshan, this shift in energy that happens is beyond Babaji's or Shri
Muniraj's physical presence. We hope and pray that we can keep on
celebrating it for many years to come together as brothers and sisters in
great numbers. When we are many gathered together with Babaji in our
hearts there is more of Babaji' presence which is so enormously uplifting in
these challenging times. Shri Muniraj gave his life to organise this for so many
years, and so it is now our turn to do so for others to keep the wheel
turning for future generations. We are looking forward to celebrate with
you in Herakhan for Chetra Navaratri - 31st March to 8th April this year.

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MAKAR SANKRANTI is celebrated on 14th January each year. It is a major

harvest festival celebrated in various parts of India. According to the lunar
calendar, it is when the sun moves from the Tropic of Cancer to the Tropic
of Capricorn or from Dakshinayana to Uttarayana, in the month of Poush in
mid-January. It commemorates the beginning of the harvest season and
cessation of the northeast monsoon in South India. The movement of the
earth from one zodiac sign into another is called Sankranti and as the Sun
moves into the Capricorn zodiac known as Makar in Hindi, this occasion is
named as Makar Sankranti. It is one of the few Hindu Indian festivals which
are celebrated on a fixed date i.e. 14th January every year.
Makar Sankranti, apart from a harvest festival is also regarded as the
beginning of an auspicious phase in Indian culture. It is said as the 'holy phase
of transition'. It marks the end of an inauspicious phase which according to
the Hindu calendar begins around mid-December. It is believed that any
auspicious and sacred ritual can be sanctified in any Hindu family, this day
onwards. Scientifically, this day marks the beginning of warmer and longer
days compared to the nights. In other words, Sankranti marks the
termination of winter season and beginning of a new harvest or spring
season. To Hindus, the Sun stands for knowledge, spiritual light and wisdom.
Makar Sankranti signifies that we should turn away from the darkness of
delusion in which we live, and begin to enjoy a new life with bright light
within us to shine brighter.
Om Namah Shivay - Alok Banerjee

Messages from General Secretary - Shri Uday Chatterjee with the help of Mr
V.R. Rao our Administration Manager:
Christmas in Haidakhan and free Woollen Sweaters distributed
Christmas Celebrations for which Shri Alok Banerjee, myself, Sandeep
Tandon, Vijay Bhatiani were present has become a great and happy occasion
for the local with people coming from far off places and we had a big traffic
jam. There were about six thousand people who joined the Bhandara !
As with every year during Christmas celebrations 2013, woollen sweaters
were distributed to children of Aanganbari and Govt primary schools, in
Haidakhan. Sweaters were also distributed to staff of Haidakhan Ashram and
Hospitals at Chilianaula. In total 355 sweaters were distributed free in
Haidakhan. (See photo below).

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Samadhi Diwas celebrations at Haidakhan on 12th February

It began with Akhand Path, a nonstop recital of the holy book 'Shri Sam
Sadashiv Charitamrit' by Chandra Mani Belwal and Madan Belwal on the
morning of 11 Feb 2014. Akhand Path was completed on the morning of
12th. Babas Samadhi was decorated with Rangoli made of flower petals. This
followed with the recital of 'Shri Divya Kathamrit' by the devotees from India
and abroad with great devotion and reverence. This is the first time that
foreign devotees were able to participate in reciting due to availability of 'Shri
Divya Kathamrit' in English. Aarti of Shri Samb Sadashiv Charitamrit and
Babas Samadhi was followed by Bhajans till 12.00 noon. Bhandara was
hosted by Col Bhagwan Singh Rana and Devi. It was enjoyed by more than
150 including people from local villages and school children.
Paduka Puja at Ludhiana December 2013
Shri Susheel Khanna invited Babajis padukas to Ludhiana, Punjab. Paduka Puja
was performed at his residence on 4th, 5th, & 6th December 2013. Susheel
Khanna has the honour of performing Paduka Puja since 2002 except for two
years. All rituals including Abhishek, Chandan, Aarti & Ma Jagdamba Yagna
was performed on all the three days by Shree Mayapati Acharya ji and Vinod
Acharya ji. Paduka Puja was performed with great devotion, love and
reverence by devotees from India and abroad. Mr. Ramesh Kapoor had a
vision of Babaji during this event. Among other wonderful visions he
recounted: Your Bhole Baba ji had the form of Lord Shiva and Lord Krishna at the
same time. The most astonishing thing I came across was that Lord Shiva was
offering Pooja to Shiv Lingam. I have never come across such a phenomenon in my
life". Devotees are grateful for the comforts and delicious meals hosted by
Khanna family. The Samaj thanks Khanna ji for hosting Paduka Puja and the
wonderful hospitality extended to all the guests.

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Monthly Medical Camps 20th February 2014. by V.R.Rao

I am happy to report that from this year, we are holding monthly medical
camps in Chilianoula. We have already had our first camp in January and
today we have had the camp for February. It has been a bright and sunny
day, with clear skies and warm weather. More than 300 patients turned up
from all over this part of Uttarakhand. The entire staff from both the Shree
Baba Haidakhan Charitable & Research Hospital and the Bhole Baba
Ayurvedic Hospital joined in the preparations, organizing and attending the
patients. Their devotion and enthusiasm paid rich dividends in terms of the
turnout and appreciation from each and every patient. All the physicians,
including Dr. M.M. Gupta, Dr. Sandeep Kaur, Dr. Mittal and Dr. S.S. Misra,
were in continuous consultation from early morning. More than 69 patients
were treated at the Ayurveda outpatients department alone, and in addition
some of the patients with aches and pains were given a free massage. With
the response and participation of everyone, we hope and will be able to
conduct an improved and better camp next month 20th March 2014.
Medical Camp at Haidakhan on 8th and 9th March 2014 Col. B.S Rana
Haidakhan and beyond is one of the remotest areas of the Kumaon Hills of
Uttarakhand. The area is massively under-developed and road connections
are very poor. People from more than 30 villages have to walk more than
15Km to reach the tarmac road, and there is no public transportation. Shri
1008 Haidakhan Baba established a charitable hospital here at Haidakhan in
1980. Today, a general physician (Ayurvedic) and a dental surgeon provide
treatment and distribute medicines free of charge.
People from
approximately 60 -70 villages benefit every year from these services. Locals
suffer from many ailments and treatment is often beyond their reach. For
these reasons the Haidakhandi Samaj has decided to run two
Medical Camps every year at Haidakhan. The First Camp for 2014 has
been planned at Haidakhan on 8 & 9 March 2014.
Availability of Specialists: The President of the Indian Medical Association of
Haldwani was approached regarding the availability of doctors and has agreed
to provide specialists for the camp from Haldwani Hospitals as follows:
Ophthalmology, Gynecology, ENT, Pediatrics, General Surgery, Dental

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Surgery, Pathology and Ayurveda. In addition 4 skilled staff and 16 general

duty staff will be provided from Chilianaula and Haidakhan. The Camp will be
conducted under the supervision of two members of the Samaj Executive
Committee: Mrs Meena Chandra and Mrs Kirti Prem Chand. The area is
large, underdeveloped and with a huge population. Therefore we expect the
number of patients might well be over one thousand. Doctors and Staff
from Chilianaula and Haldwani will be provided with appropriate
accommodation and meals in the Ashram. A report on the entire Medical
Camp will be forwarded to Executive Committee by 20 March 2014.

Resident Eye Surgeon:

Dr Sinha our Resident Eye Surgeon who had served our hospital for nearly
ten years has left to pursue his own practice. But we appreciate his services
and during his tenure our hospital achieved a reputation as a very good
hospital. We wish him a very good career. We have a new Eye Surgeon
now and we are planning a lot of exciting expansions to our current scope of
services.

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Bhole Baba Ayurvedic Hospital - Progress Report

There has been a consistent increase in the number of outpatients and
Panchakarma treatments over the last 10 months, and our revenue has
increased by almost 30% compared to last year. We have started a training
program for Ayurvedic Therapists concentrating on local women and the
response has been overwhelming.
We have carried out renovations of the interiors of the Panchakarma Unit
and treatment facilities. This year we have inaugurated our new guesthouse
NANDA for accommodating Panchakarma patients, with nice, clean and
spacious rooms. They are equipped with western style facilities and have
Solar panel invertor backup. Our American house has been rechristened as
TRISHUL (the Trident of Shiva). And so we are expanding our marketing of
our Ayurvedic Hospital with the help of our satisfied clients across many
countries around the world.
In addition we have introduced new ayurvedic medicines into the Pharmacy,
and successful ayurvedic treatments are being carried for diseases like,
insomnia, stress, obesity, multiple sclerosis, hair loss, arthritis, etc. using
ayurvedic formulations and Panchakarma treatment.
On 20th of every
month, we are providing free Ayurvedic consultations, medicines and
Panchakarma treatments as part of the Medical Camps for impoverished local
villagers at out Hospital.

Shree Baba Haidakhan Charitable & Research Hospital

I may just summarise by saying that in the last six months we have focused on
serving more people through free health Camps in Chilianaula and Haidakhan.
It is also our plan to increase the scope of services offered in our hospital to
cover more disciplines.
It is a matter of happiness that this has been
achieved without creating any financial burden and achieving operational
break-even. The credit for this goes to all the wonderful team we have that is
working to actualise the vision of selfless service. Babajis blessings and
inspiration will continue to drive us to greater and higher levels of service in
the years to come.

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Letters and Articles sent to the Journal

PRAYER, MEDITATION and CONTEMPLATION by Raghu
Prayer, meditation and contemplation are the holy trinity of the spiritual path.
While prayer can be seen like talking to the divine, meditation is listening to
God and contemplation is bringing the unfathomable to our awareness at our
present level of consciousness. As we let go of our preconceived notions,
limiting thoughts, attachments, fears and earthly obligations for even a
small period each day, we create a vacuum that draws to us our
hearts deepest longing. In this sacred space of divine harmony, we attune
our consciousness to the vibration of love, and are given insight, guidance,
clarity, and direction.
Babajis in His public speeches did not particularly promote making time for
this on a daily bases. In the daily program He advocated however, a
considerable part of the day would be dedicated to this. Shri Muniraj was a
living example and as his life progressed he always increased his reading of
scriptures, his japa and his days was filled with silent contemplation.
Most of us are not yogis and have busy lives dedicated to work and family.
The spiritual centred person in India has a steadfast discipline in setting time
apart for dedication to the divine. For those from outside India where this is
not part of the culture, these disciplines are needed to be learned with all the
challenges such lifelong commitments may have. Shri Muniraj was inspiring
many of us to keep up this discipline. This message is to inspire you not to
forget Shri Munirajs commitment to our spiritual upliftment.
Once I asked Shri Vishnu Datt Shastri what he did all the time sitting in the
small kutir with Babaji. He answered that he was reading his daily scriptures
of Durga & Haidakhandeswari Saptasati. What was Babaji doing while you
did that ? I asked and he answered: He was listening of course. Every
day ? I asked again with great surprise. Yes of course he said, Who do
you think is listening to your recitals and prayers when you do them every
day ? There and then I realised what I had somehow always taken vaguely
for granted but never so literally. This realisation brought the divine a lot
closer in my prayers from then on, knowing that He really always listens.
By daily dedicating space in our day to focus on the divine by our
various practices, we are affirming our relationship with IT, which will shine

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through all we do, until separation will melt away and IT will shine through
us.
In this process we experience clarity, inspiration, peace of mind
and guidance on how to grow and thrive. We find harmony in what we do,
in what we love, in how to proceed and we are fully opening ourselves to the
boundless beauty of the Divine.
There are no new gurus, mantras or practices which can bring you salvation
from the outside. You have everything already inside of you. As you are
reading this I can assume you have come to Babajis door, and it is now your
faith and your practice which will invite you inside. Welcome Home !

Letter to the Indian Samaj regarding the Report on Hospital

Activities 22nd February 2014
This is an amazing accomplishment. Thank you for doing it. Being able to
serve people is the biggest gift we can give to society. Congratulations to
your team. One of the activities that have been very effective is the outreach
program where a van with a Dr or Nurse travels to village and delivers care
on a monthly or weekly basis. This also helps identify people who need
care because lot of villagers do not even know that they need care
until it is too late. Benefits are harder to measure because people are not
motivated to take care of their health, but the service you and your team is
doing is not about measurement only. I do not know the financial support
this effort receives but that is a good cause for all the ashrams to support and
contribute money, people, volunteers, etc.
Love and Peace, Bipin Agarwal

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2014 Babaji Mahasamadhi 30 years on!

By Lok Nath

One Christmas I asked for a basketball, everyone in the neighbourhood had

one, and I got a soccer ball. When I complained, my mother airily said
something like Well, soccer is important too. For years I carried a
festering sense of WHAT * ! - Cant I have what I want? Then it occurred to
me that the soccer ball was one mothers way of saying: Dont just follow
the crowd, what is life expecting of you? Experiment - discover.
By February 1984 Id decided that I wanted to live in Haidakhan for the rest
of my life: I had a resident visa, a room in the Ashram, and I felt set. On
February 14th my/our world fell apart. I went into shock. Babajis samadhi felt
like a lot more than just not getting what I wanted.
Over the last 30 years we all, new and old devotees alike, have lamented in
countless ways the absence of Babajis physical presence. Some pray daily
for his return. Some embrace his absence as a gift, a way to live ones own
light and presence: a way that would be encumbered if we focus on looking
outward on a presence as dazzling as Babaji, rather than looking inward
toward the presence that wants to be expressed through us.
So now, looking forward to the next 30 years, what can it mean for us as
individuals and a community to live on a life path without the living Master ?
For me, there is an incredible richness to what Babaji bequeathed to us.
Everyone will have their own list and it is a list to have conversations
about. My list includes:
- Hospitality (we are a welcoming community that is free of bigotry or
judgement around the issues of inclusiveness and human sexuality).
- Open Initiation (we openly initiate all who come with Om Namaha
Shivaya and the community practices).
- Wonderful worship (our sung Aarti and fire ceremonies have the added
quality of being free of doctrine).
- Earth based Celebrations (the rhythms of Navaratri, Guru Purnima and
many more festivals, seek to honour).
- Good stewardship (we care for relationships and the earth, and all who
dwell on her, to make a better world for all).
With all of this richness and more, what can our future look like? What
would it be like for us to name that we have a shared mission: to perpetuate
the experience and teachings of the Haidakhan Baba lineage and create the

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next generation of teachers and practitioners? Is that what we are already

doing ? Can we pledge to continue to provide opportunities and facilities for
practitioners to connect with, learn from, and follow in the path
of the Haidakhan Baba tradition? Can we grow to respect, and work to
understand, other cultures, traditions, and communities while we strive to
practice and live in harmony in the Babaji linage? In the spirit of karma yoga,
can we be caring stewards of this lineage and culture, appreciating that our
stewardship extends equally to the land, water, animals, and the places of our
Ashrams and Centres?
I was thirty five when I met Babaji. This year I will turn seventy. I will not see
another 30 years, nor will most who knew Babaji in his physical form. I for
one do not want to go to my death bed having been touched by the
wonderful richness of Babaji and not work with others to make that wonder
available to the future.
TSL - Truth, Simplicity and Love a Koan for Life
The first time I heard or saw this expression was at Haidakhan. Memorably,
someone stitched the letters TSL and the words Truth, Simplicity and Love
on a piece of cloth, framed it and hung the words next to one of the temples.
Time and again, Babaji seemed to say that if there was a central teaching of
his that could be put to words it was: do Japa (repeat Om Namaha
Shivaya), karma yoga (dedicate time and work to God), and practice
truth, simplicity and love. With the first two I could at least follow along.
Truth, Simplicity and Love was different. It has a nice ring, sounds profound,
easy to say - simple. But what does it mean? Babaji, in my experience, never
said. So for me it became something of a koan - a kind of inner inquiry where
I let the words rest over a meaning that wanted to emerge from a deeper
level of my consciousness than my busy mind. These days during my morning
practice I say a prayer asking that my thoughts, words and deeds be a
radiance of truth, simplicity and love. Over the years the saying has meant
different things. Whether my daily prayer is answered gets to be a daily
experiment. Babaji himself embodied truth - which is the simplicity of love
that includes all of creation and everyone and everything within it.
You may be reading this as a Samaj member or an interested friend.
Whatever - maybe these simple words can be life giving to you.
Great peace, Lok Nath

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Babaji Disciples Undercover

by Kamini - a German medical doctor.

I want to tell you about a class of Babaji supporters that can easily be
forgotten as most of the time they remain invisible. They love Him and his
karmayoga teachings but have no connection to Hinduism. They might have
other reasons or issues that make them unable or unwilling to practice the
Haidakhandi devotee lifestyle. They try to be righteous and work in His
spirit, but normally won't easily call themselves devotees; they might even be
unsure of being on the right path. To keep faith under such circumstances is a
hard thing. I would like to tell you my story, not to make myself special, but
as an example of how an undercover Babaji-supporter might live. I am sure
there are thousands of people like me in Germany alone. My idea for your
Samaj would be to deliberately seek out people like me and testimonies like
mine and to publish them in your Journal. It would be a wonderful satsang.
I was brought up Catholic and my great aunt, a Franciscan nun, taught me
Catholic karma yoga and bhakti yoga in a true and simple way. I now revere
her as an unrecognised saint. But as I could not accept every dogma taught
by the Catholic Church, I left it in the 1980s. Up until then I had no image of
God apart from the Catholic image, so I felt lost as, if I had lost God Himself.
After some confused years, I met with some Babaji devotees in 1988 and
became a regular visitor to Rieferath. In 1991 Lal Baba lent me his kutir in
Germany to live in for the winter. It was after this that I made my pilgrimage
to Haidakhan. On return I started my first doctor job in a mountain village. I
arrived there bald headed; with a mark on my forehead from a skin
infection, and with a limp from an infected wound as a result of my climbing
Mount Kailash. The villagers, old-aged most of them and utterly
conservative, all shook their heads when they saw me. One year later when
my contract ran out they had stopped shaking heads and were greeting me in
the street...
I was photographed in my room during that time, May 1992, sitting beside a
table on which a Babaji photo stood. When I showed that photograph of
mine to a devotee one year after, she said with some astonishment: "Oh
look, don't you see how much you and Babaji on the photo resemble each
other, you two have got the same expression on your faces!" That is why I
dared to write this article. I believe that even undercover devotees like me
can become like Babaji and most of them won't know it themselves. It must
be told to them by others.

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But I had no affinity with Hindu rituals, although I had managed to do Japa
one hour a day from 4am to 5am during the winter in Lal Baba's kutir, in a
room which was unheated, in order to be prepared for Haidakhan, which I
thought to be the Capital City of Austerities... but then this was not the
case, in fact I felt life there to be less difficult and less ascetic than my own life
during the years before. I could not imagine a future of the whole of
mankind characterized by constantly prostrating oneself before human demigods, complicated pujas and lavish burnt-offerings, to be a good future. It
seemed to me a nightmare, not a dream. I thought: "This Haidakhan game is
no better than the Roman Catholic game" - and so I left the Herakhandi
community in 1995 - broken-hearted again.
The only thing I fully adopted was the karma yoga ideal. Its fruit was my
writing three thousand pages (3 volumes) of a Homeopathic Materia Medica.
During all those years I suffered inner torment as to who has the right
religion? Hindu idolatry is called sinful and demoniacal by Christian dogma as
well as by the Islamic faith. Bowing down before some mortal human, calling
him a deity, is forbidden in Christianity, and yet Hindu bhakti and Catholic
bhakti are very similar. It seemed to me that it would be against all logic, and
against all justice, to believe that God, who is the God of all humans, would
ignore prayers of non-Christians. In my prayers I use the names from the
Christian gospel alternating with the Indian deity names, and fervently call out
to God again and again, aloud or in thought: Father in Heaven please lead
me the right way.
Shortly after Christmas 2012 God finally sent me a solution to this problem:
I saw, just for a second, between sleep and waking, an image of
Jesus Christ and Babaji. They stood beside each other, holding
each other's hands like brethren, and were of the same physical
size. They both smiled, in a friendly and somewhat humorous way,
similar to boys after having won some sporting game together.
Since that time I know for sure that these two Mahavatars are working
together, and that the old religious fears of not being taken to heaven or
even going to eternal hell if one is not Christian at ones time of death, really
are wrong. God knows all languages of Earth. I also recognized that they
smiled because they were contented with the path they had led me.
In memory of Sri Muni Raji, the King of Under Cover Agents of God.

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Responses to Babaji Disciples Undercover:

Babaji spoke about the Sanatan Dharma, and as we all know, it is not a

specific religion. It is not made only for Hindus, but for all humanity.
The sanatana dharma has to be understood as a spiritual law which
shows people the way. All religions exist to show a way. The sanatan
dharma has to be understood as the basis of all religions. In the Vedic
tradition, scholars, rishis and holy men made huge efforts to research
this holy law, to discover and live it. We are all children of these rishis
all of us. Some people think we follow the Hindu path, but it is not
so. We are open to people of all religions. Babaji has directed his call
to people of all religions. Babaji said that everyone should follow his or
her own religious path. This way everyone learns how to use their
religion as a tool for their personal path.
Muniraj
In addition: Paramahansa Yogananda in his book Autobiography of a Yogi
described Babaji as the Yogi-Christ of modern India. (Ed.)
In the UK we have a fellowship of people who are undercover agents of
Babaji, 90% of whom have never performed Hindu puja nor been to any
ashram anywhere. A number of us meet 8 times a year on the solar festivals
under the guidance of Peter Dawkins. Peter has always said he sees our
Teacher Babaji/Christ as the one great Being of the universe.
(Ramachandra)

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In Memoriam
Mrs Shakuntla Mehta, an old devotee of Babaji has passed away in 2013. We
offer our condolences to her husband Mr J.L. Mehta, also an ardent devotee
with his family. Mr Mehta wrote from Ludhiana: Im very sad to inform you
that my wife Shakuntla Mehta passed away on 14th February 2013, the same
day as the anniversary of when Babaji left his body.
Om Namah Shivay.

Shri Babajis - Sadashiva Charitamrita

A book by Mahavatar Babaji (Autobiography of a Yogi) for the new Golden

Age. It was revealed in a vision to his first disciple, the saint Mahendra
Maharaj. By the grace of Mahendra Baba the book was written in Avadh,
Hindi and Sanskrit and published in 1961.

Shri Babaji said that everyone should have this book at home, because
blessing radiated from it. In 1983 after the 9th chapter was dictated by Babaji
himself and written by Shri Vishnu Datt Shastri, Babaji pressed our present
chairman Alok Banerjee to get it published very quickly and widely
distributed. Babaji emphasized the great importance this book has for the
world and for personal spiritual development. The translation is a very big
task which should involve all of us as we need to collect funds of around
100,000 Euro's. The German Samaj is going to oversee and collect the funds
for the translation in English and German. We humbly request for help in
realising this project that Shri Babaji has requested of us 30 years ago.
Below are the banking details : Bank No: 370 502 99 Kreissparkasse
Kln Account No: 303 13 33 Funds for: Sadashiva Charitamrit IBAN:
DE83370502990003031333

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10th European Gurupurnima Meeting

9th 13th July 2014 Schweibenalp, Switzerland
With joy we invite you for Gurupurnima 2014 to the old Siddhashram at
Schweibenalp. Gurupurnima is a season for celebration and renewal and
maybe a vision of the future for us personally and our spiritual family. And as
usual we will follow the daily Haidakhandi program.
Our two great teachers Babaji and Munirajji have left their bodies and,
although omnipresent in spirit, their direct physical guidance is no longer
available. So we feel that it is paramount to meet, reconnect and reorient
regularly as a family. Our first European Gurupurnima meeting was in 2004
with Sri Munirajjis blessing. People came from Australia, America, India,
Russia, Europe and Asia. We were 220 people from 22 nations and we all
marvelled how strong the presence and blessings of Sri Babaji were. Since
then we met every year. One of the reasons we began this programme was
to further the cooperation between and within national centres, ashrams and
individuals.
Today our central questions are: How do we continue to
disseminate Babajis teachings? What is our vision? Are we stronger
individually or collectively? How to cooperate between our different
countries? What are our social activities and our outreach? How do we
communicate within the smaller and the larger networks? How is our
intergenerational development between elders and the next generation?
We propose to encourage as many of our youngsters and kids as possible to
come also to this gathering. If wished they can come together in separate
meetings to discuss their own issues and/or share with us their views and
vision.

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For more information please go to:

http://www.schweibenalp.ch/PDF/Homepage/2014/Gurupurnima_E
nglisch.pdf

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Editorial
This Edition, dedicated to Lord Bhairava, is about doing our duty, our
sadhana rigorously, letting go our attachments to what we want or what we
think we know, and to surrendering the results of our actions to the will of
the divine. As Kharku says: Bhairav clears our fears of uniting with the divine.
So in reality Bhairav is our healer. Or as Bhairav says in the poem: I burn
away everything that is not love as I am only love.
About this Journal: as was stated in the last edition, we call this a Journal
because we want to invite your articles and letters and to stimulate
discussion/satsang. Please also send us your country news. For the next
editions we would particularly like our Indian devotees to tell some
stories of encounters they had with Babaji. Maximum 400 (1 page) or
800 words please. If you find the Journal improvable, be bold and let us
know! So if you want this to be an international journal, choose to be cocreators! Thank you to those of you who contributed articles and letters for
this edition. Oh yes, and lets all continue to support Lal Baba in his work
see the website www.planetbabaji.com
Next Edition: SUMMER 2014 (copy date 26th July 2014). We will include news
from Gurupurnima in Schweibenalp and we hope for the Journal theme to be
on Vision Quest. So why not write now and let us know your thoughts
and experiences of this theme. Choosing this theme has been inspired by
Maheshanands visit to Bacca on pages 11 to 14 herein; when he chose to
approach his trip there as a Vision Quest. Traditionally a Vision Quest is a
dedicated wilderness time to re-visioning ones individual path in life. Maybe
acting as a seer or elder (and an elder can be of any age), we could choose to
go into the wilderness to re-vision the future for our tribe or community.
The responsibility for the content of the IHJ lies with the Editors, with the
support of their Editorial Board of Alok, Lok Nath, Gayatri Devi, Raghuvir
and Kharku who assist us in approving the content and style of publication.
The Editors do not take responsibility for individuals stories or articles. We
often need to edit information sent to us, for the purpose of shortening the
length of articles or improving written English or presentation. Love to all,
Rob and Gaby. Contact Editors on info@oxford-transpersonal.co.uk
This Journal is printed in India by the Haidakhandi Samaj, Regd Office: 54
Hanuman Road, New Delhi -110 001 Regd No. Delhi S-1455

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Bhairava has a black dog (Shvan) as his divine vahana.

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