Babaji - The Unfathomable. Gertraud Reichel

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СКАЧАТЬ day of the cremation, an ashram work project happened to be taking place nearby and involved carrying big rocks over to a site where a stone rampart was being built against the anticipated monsoon floods. It seemed to me like a lack of piety to have all this industrious work going on around a dead body and it disturbed me enough to make me go to Babaji.

      "Babaji, there is a corpse down there and yet work continues on in the immediate vicinity. I think the dead man should be left in peace". Babaji: "Yes ... yes ... peace, peace ... Go and chop him to pieces!"

      Taken aback, I ran down the 108 stairs to the riverbed. Was I really supposed to chop up the body as is the custom in Tibet? No. Babaji was only joking...!

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      If a devotee wished to receive chandan from Babaji in His little room in the early morning, he/ she had to ask for permission the evening before. So I approached Babaji and asked: "May I please come to chandan tomorrow?"

      Now my English is not the best and a thought flashed through my mind: "to" sounds like "two".

      Babaji smiled and nodded saying. "Three-morrow". in other words, "Yes, for three continuous mornings".

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      It's our last darshan. Tomorrow we leave Haidakhan. So much has happened in three days. I don't want to leave yet. This place has taken such a hold of my heart. But there is no time to be gloomy over the departure.

      We have just finished the day's karma yoga - work in the ashram - and are getting ready for the evening Aarati, prayer chanting. I have been asked to assist in the preparation of a puja ceremony. Fresh fruit and flowers are being beautifully arranged on a shiny platter and other items are being brought together. We feel happy to be given the privilege to participate in honouring Babaji in this way. Now it's time to take the things over to the temple.

      Everyone has already assembled there. The bells are ringing. Babaji arrives. Out of Him radiates such enormous power, yet He moves nimbly and lightly, like the wind. His beauty is overwhelming; each time one sees Him, it is like a new delight. He sits on His asana and His power, love and acute concentration are evident.

      Immediately, as if drawn to a magnet. a stream of devotees queue for His darshan. His attraction is irresistible. A mere smile or movement of the hand suffices to fill the heart and soul totally.

      The chanting grows louder; the vibrations intensify. The first puja commences where light is offered to the great Light. Music fills the air and all mind chatter is extinguished. The offered fruit, now blessed, is served out as prasad. Sounds upon sounds (instrumental music, bells, conches, drums, damaru) pervade the clear night.

      Now another puja; this time performed by a couple whose marriage ceremony took place this morning. The atmosphere becomes even more intense and high and brings everyone into a sense of oneness.

      Babaji beckons one of His close, long-term devotees to say a few words. He, too, is filled with the effects of divine energy and extols in Hindi the greatness of the divine presence of Babaji in human form. How inadequate is our comprehension of a Mahavatar! Even when Rama. the hero of the Mahabharatas was on earth, little did the people recognise His greatness.

      At the high point of this event, Babaji stood up. It was the most powerful experience I've ever had in my life -- ­the revelation of Babaji as the almighty energy pervading all of creation, the original energy.

      The sense of unity became obvious when the speaker symbolically put out his arms, embracing some of the devotees standing beside Babaji. I was also drawn to them, as if from an inner impulse, and thereby received my farewell embrace. I didn't realise then that this was also to be my farewell, on the earth plane, to Babaji, the Avatar of the Kali Yuga.

      The next morning Babaji, seemingly unmoved, performed the sacred fire ceremony: Shiva beyond time and space. A farewell with joyful heart; I shall be returning.

      Five weeks later came the news of Babaji's Mahasamadhi. I was stunned. "I dwell in everything, in nature and in your heart". This was His message to me during that wonderful, intense time in Haidakhan, which totally changed my life. The time has come to put into practise the imparted knowledge: Truth. Simplicity and Love.

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