Babaji is the descent of Divinity emanating from the Eternal Father,

the Ultimate Truth.

He is the Father of All and yet my only true Father.

He is the Triune Flame of Love, Truth and Power.

To Him I and the whole Universe bows and sings

OM NAMAH SHIVAYA, the prayer Glory!

What has been said about Babaji and what and who Babaji really is

cannot fully be described as Babaji is indescribable.

When I ask one of you to describe the twelve Universes, how would you describe them if you cannot even accurately describe yourself?

It is not the self that we are trying to describe here, but a consciousness that is super expanded and that encompasses the whole of this Universe and more.

~ Kriyaji

There are some texts in which His presence, appearance and embodiment is recorded first in history about 2,000 years ago.

Babaji has mostly been known as a Himalayan Yogi that lives still today in the Himalayas. He has been known in physical form as Babaji Nagaraj (the King of Serpents), the sixteen year old boy who attained Immortality during His lifetime through yogic practices. He descended in the body to show others that anyone in a mortal body could attain Immortality by the application of certain yogic practices. In that particular lifetime, Babaji Nagaraj was a student of Siddha Boganathar. He himself was a student of the great Siddha Agastyar, a great ayurvedic doctor who already had attained Immortality and that initiated Boganathar into advanced practices of Kriya Yoga. Boganathar himself then initiated Babaji Nagaraj. Boganathar inspired Babaji to seek the goal of physical Immortality and directed Him to seek His final initiation of certain advanced Kriya Yoga practices that could only be given by an Immortal one - the legendary Siddha Agastyar. Babaji travelled on foot to Courtrallam, Tamil Nadu, in Southern India, and arrived at a Divine Mother Temple where He made a vow to meditate until Siddha Agastyar came and gave Him the techniques required for entering Soruba Samadhi (Immortal samadhi).

Some other writings referring to Babaji are from Adi Shankaracharya (788 AD - 820 AD) who is describing Babaji His guru:

"Behold, under the banyan tree are seated the aged disciples around their youthful teacher! This is strange indeed. The teacher instructed them only through silence, which in itself is sufficient to solve all their doubts."

Another book, the Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda often refers to the great spiritual Master Babaji who for centuries has lived in the Himalayan mountains appearing occasionally to a fortunate few. Sri Yukteswar, Yogananda's Guru, said that Babaji's attainment was so great it could not even be conceived of.

Yogananda has stated that Babaji is a Mahavatar or Incarnation of God in human form.

Babaji has taken different human forms. He has been identified with Herakhan Baba in the latter part of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century. He is also identified with Haidakhan Babaji who appeared in a cave, aged about sixteen and having been discovered, started a now well known ashram on the banks of the Gautama Ganga river in Herakhan.