Mahavatar Babaji

Who is Babaji?

Babaji is a descent of Divinity. The Flame of Love, Truth and Power. What has been said about Babaji and what and who Babaji really is cannot fully be described completely as Babaji is indescribeable.

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

Babaji is mostly been known as an 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 advance 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 advance kriya yogic practices that could only be given by the an Immortal one - the legendary Siddha Agastyar. Babaji travel 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 would come and give him the techniques required for entering Soruba Samadhi (Immortal samadhi).

Some other writings referring to Babaji are from:

Adi Shankaracharya (788 AD - 820 AD) describes 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 centuaries 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 famous ashram on the banks of the Gautama Ganga river in Herakhan.