Desire is the beginning of separation and suffering.

God and Maya Are One

13 October 1983

Today I asked Babaji in what sense Maya, the Cosmic Illusion, exists...

and He answered,

"That 'what is existing' is the Projection we make on reality; our Dream exists, but it is just our imagination." He added a song: ‘God and Maya are One together. Nothing of what’s existing can be different from its Creator.

Shastriji, Babaji's High Priest, explained to me that things in themselves are not good or bad, because everything that exists comes from the Divine, even that which is apparently negative; it is an illusion to think otherwise, the result of ignorance, born out of our attachment.

Desire is the beginning of separation and suffering. In the Christian religion the concept of separation is symbolized by original sin and whatever meaning or significance we wish to give to the famous apple, it’s the symbol of a personal desire and a lack of surrender to Divine Will.
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~ Book: Fire of Transformation by Gaura Devi 'My Life with Babaji'

Haidiyakhandi Yoga Taught by Lord Babaji to Shastriji - ॐ (Part 3)

Lord Haidakhandi Babaji and Shastriji

 Haidiyakhandi Yoga Taught by Lord Babaji to Shastriji - ॐ (Part 3)
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Sri Shastriji at Siddhashram Schweibenalp, May 8, 1985

And when Sri Mahaprabhuji (Lord Haidakhandi Babaji) told me that He could tell me the Secrets of the Mantra "Haidiyakhandi" immediately, I was reminded of what had happened with Mahendra Maharaji years ago, when he had told me that, when Sri Mahaprabhuji appears, He himself will tell you the 'real meaning' of Haidiyakhandi.

And while explaining the meaning of this Great Name, Prabhuji (Babaji) told me that, when the actions of Yoga start in the body, they start First in the Muladhara Chakra (root chakra), from below. But this "Haidiyakhandi Yoga" is a very special Yoga which starts from the Sahasrara Chakra (crown chakra), from the top. And one by one, from above downwards, it will pierce all the chakras.

When I further questioned Him to explain to me more precisely, Sri Mahaprabhuji told me that there are Five syllables in "Hai-di-ya-khan-di." In the Sanskrit alphabet, each letter has a particular place in the body. Hai has a place in the throat. According to the rules of grammar, ai is mixed in Hai and pronounced from the talu (the throat). Each of the Five syllables has a letter both pronounced from the throat and belonging to the topmost chakra, so that in reciting these Five syllables constantly, one travels 'only in the uppermost chakras', purifying them.

This 'Haidiyakhandi Yoga', which gives everything to a human being who follows it, is a Yoga between Throat and Crown Chakra and has no connection with any of the lower parts of the body. It rules all the chakras from the sahasrara, from the top.

By constantly chanting the mantra Haidiyakhandi 'all the chakras' of a human being are pierced, and he/she becomes the owner of all the Siddhis (the great powers), which are known as the Ashta Siddhis (the eight divine powers) and the Nau Nidhis (the ninefold divine blessings). This is one of the 'most important points' of this Yoga which Mahaprabhuji showed to us.
(Continued in Part 4)
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Photo: Lord Haidakhandi Babaji and Shastriji (Babaji's High Priest)

Bhole Baba Ki Jai! ॐ

Lord Babaji as the Divine Father and Divine Mother / Japa on Haidiyakhandi Mantra ॐ - (Part 1)

Lord Babaji as the Divine Father and Divine Mother  / Japa on Haidiyakhandi Mantra ॐ - (Part 1)

~ Shri ShatrijiI Vishnu Datt Misra
at Siddhashram, Schweibenalp, Switzerland 1985

Many people offered prayers and did Aarati to Sri Mahaprabhuji (Babaji) as Sri Mahaprabhuji. But there were times, when people put a sari on Sri Mahaprabhuji, worshipping Him, offering aarati to Him as Mahamaya (Mother Goddess). And He proved it to us, that within Himself, Brahma and Mahamaya both resided together.

He proved to us that there is no need for us to do a separate sadhana, separate yoga for the male and female energy, for Brahma and Mahamaya. By chanting, or doing Japa of "Haidiyakhandi", we worship both together. For the universal good of humankind, Sri Mahaprabhuji has given us the 'Great Boon' of this Mantra. (To be continued in part 2)
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Haidiyakhandi Yoga Taught by Lord Babaji ॐ - (Part 2)

 Lord Haidakhandi Babaji and Shastriji reading

Sri Shastriji at Siddhashram Schweibenalp May 8, 1985

Now I will share with you the 'most secret aspect' contained in the Mantra "Haidiyakhandi" (Given to Sri Shastriji by Lord Haidakhandi Babaji)

With the Grace of Sri Mahendra Swamiji Maharaja (Sri Shastrijis family guru and chief disciple of Babaji), the book "Shri Sadashiva Charitamrita" was written and published in 1961. Within his lifetime, the criticism and interpretation of this book was also written, but was not published then.

A short while after Sri Mahaprabhuji (Lord Haidakhandi Babaji) appeared in 1970, He said to me, "In your house there is a written book ready. Please bring it here." And when I brought this book, "Shri Sadashiva Charitamrita," to Him, Sri Mahaprabhuji heard it from my own mouth from the first chapter to the end. And after having listened to the whole book, Sri Mahaprabhuji commented, "This is perfect. This is what I wanted." Sri Mahaprabhuji wanted that 'all religions should be united' and that there should be a book in which they were given a common base, a universal book.

And I requested of Sri Mahaprabhuji, "Now that you have appeared before the world, you should give some teaching on Kriya Yoga." For Kriya Yoga had not been given fully, so I wanted that Sri Mahaprabhuji should complete His teaching on it.

Sri Mahaprabhuji told me that now the time is not ripe for the world to know the 'secrets' of Kriya Yoga. When the time comes, He would open the Treasure of this knowledge and give it to the world. As you might have read in the "Autobiography of a Yogi," there is a mention of Kriya Yoga, and also in many other books like this. But there is no book in which there is a description of how Kriya Yoga should be done, or how it should be taught. Everyone was told to go to the master, to the guru, and find out what it was.

These disciples in search of masters, kept on wandering here, there, everywhere, and then would find a master who whispered something into their ears, telling them that this is how Kriya Yoga is done. But in our Vedic literature and all other religious books, nothing is secret, everything is open for everyone to interpret as they wish.

After my 'repeated prayers' to Sri Mahaprabhuji that He should tell me what I should write, He told me that I should compose a ninth chapter (of Sri Shastriji's book). For each chapter He would tell me what I should write. And whatever Sri Mahaprabhuji told me, I wrote. It was the complete description of Kriya Yoga in His presence.
Many times He listened to what I had written.

But when He had finished, I prayed to Sri Mahaprabhuji saying, "It will be impossible for the present mankind to follow this kind of Yoga, because today, at this stage, human beings eat all kinds of food which is not pure (as are vegetables, ghee, etc.). I mean all the kinds of chemical food, and this is why it is impossible for them to follow this deep and difficult Yoga."

So when I protested to Sri Mahaprabhuji that nobody would be able to do this Yoga of present mankind, Sri Mahaprabhuji laughed and said, "Shastriji, don't worry. This Yoga will be followed by someone who will be born -- there is no end to time, and there is no end to the universe -- somewhere, a human being will be born who will understand it and do this Yoga. Maybe, one person only, and maybe five persons, or maybe a few more will understand it and will be able to perform and Live this Yoga, and this will be sufficient to make it available to mankind, for it should no longer remain secret."

At the same time, Sri Mahaprabhuji told me, "If you are satisfied, if it makes you happy, I will teach to present mankind of this yuga (era), the Yoga of "Haidiyakhandi".

And as I was writing this literature on Haidakhan Babaji (in the 50s), Sri Mahendra Maharaja one day came by car to my house and told me, "Shastriji, all this time, we have been writing on Haidakhan, on Haidakhan Baba, etc., but now I have been given the permission by Babaji to tell the world the meaning of the name Haidiyakhandi".

So when I prayed to Sri Mahendra that he should tell me the 'secret mystery' of the name Haidiyakhandi, he said that at the moment it is all right to just explain what is Haidiyakhandi. Haidiyakhandi is the one who lives on the continent of Haidakhan. Just as we have the European continent, or America and Australia are known as continents, the same way in India in ancient times, the different regions were known as continents, and so Mahendra Maharaja said that this is sufficient for the world to know, that Haidakhan is the continent of Haidakhan Baba who lives in this continent.

Sri Mahendra Maharaji also said to me (Shastriji), "I'm revealing to you only a 'very small portion' of what Haidiyakhandi means, but when Babaji appears to you and the world, He himself will reveal to you the whole mystery of this Name." (To be continued in Part 3).

Jai Haidiyakhandi Bhole Baba Ki Jai!

Babaji's Wisdom on Fasting" Spoken by Shastriji ॐ `

Shastriji and Babaji

"Babaji's Wisdom on Fasting" Spoken by Shastriji ॐ

"To Purify the elements in the body, to find 'Oneself', to purify all five elements in the human body, it is necessary to Fast at least one of
seven days. If you are travelling a long distance with a car, after a particular mileage, one stops and opens the bonnet of the car to allow it to cool off. In the same way, if a human body is just being fed, fed, fed, there is definitely a danger that one day, this body will suffer diseases.

Sri Mahaprabhuji (Babaji) always used to advise people to Fast on Monday, for Monday is considered to be the day of Shiva. At the same time, the 'chief deity' of Monday is Moon (Chandra), and the people who do not have a sufficient balance of the Fire-element, He said to Fast on Tuesdays (day of  Hanuman, chief deity of Mars, Mangala).

Probably, you are aware that there is a religion called "Jainism." In Jainism, fasting has been given so much importance that they say, continuous fasting is the only way of reaching self-realization. In Islam also, one month in a year, in the month of Ramadan, for 30 days, a continuous fast is observed.

But this kind of continuous fasting is not good for the human
body. Because there is an immediate loss of energy, and other detrimental effects. That's why, if a man/woman Fasts once a week, once in seven days, it is much more healthy."
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~ Shastriji Vishnu Datt Misra
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JAPA NAMA (repetition of God's name)

JAPA NAMA (repetition of God's name)

Shastriji cited Babaji as saying ; 

"The only way to happily control the mind is to worship the Lord and remember His Name is unfathomable. Keeping it always in mind, the traveler on the path overcomes every obstacles.

"When the Name of the Lord, as His supreme power, enters the heart, happiness begins to pervade it. By remembering His Name, the Lord Himself comes to reside within the heart, and the devotee immediately reaps the fruit of all his endeavors. 

"The little self of man then begins to merge with the Divine self, and the Lord, most merciful, gives fearlessness to it. The constant remembrance of the Lord transforms the individual self into the Self Supreme..the self, by constantly remembering God, become like Him.

In one of His talks in november, 1982, Shri Babaji said: 

"of greatest importance is that is repetition of God's Name increases daily. On this way your heart and mind will be purified; only then will you find God in yourself.

"The mind can be purified only by jap. This is only medicine for the disease of the mind. While your mind and heart are impure, how can God live in your heart? The water to clean your heart is the Name of God. So teach everyone to repeat the Name of God - everywhere."

From the book " I am Harmony"

From "Shastriji: Voice of Babaji"

       Shastriji and Muniraji in Schweibenalp, after Havan, 1992

Sri Shastriji (Sri Shastriji Vishnu Datt) at Siddhashram Schweibenalp, May 10, 1985
Bhole Baba ki Jai

Ladies and gentlemen, and children You are all indeed very fortunate to be sitting in the court of Lord Haidiyakhandi, listening to the stories of His divine lilas.

Today I am going to throw some light on the incidents, on the background of how Lord Haidiyakhandi took human form and came on this earth for the good of mankind. Lord Haidiyakhandi is the absolute Brahma. To describe how He came to earth in human form is beyond speech, beyond the intellect of man. Thousands and thousands of people had His darshan, but there were very few to whom he revealed Himself, and they were the fortunate ones witnessing some of the things that happened.

To bring Him into a physical form on this earth was due to the prayers of a great saint called Mahendra Maharaja. Sri Mahendra Maharaja was born in the province of Bihar in India, in a small town called Manka. At the age of six, when Sri Mahendra Maharaja was still a child, he suffered from an incurable disease and to save him from this disease, Lord Haidiyakhandi appeared before him. And in the child's pure heart, the image of that saint remained inscribed. As he grew up, he kept thinking and meditating on the image of this saint in his heart. When he was nine years old, one day -- it was his birthday -- his mother asked him to go to a sweet-shop and buy some sweets. She gave him some money and when he went to the sweet-shop, he saw the same saint whom he had seen when he was a six year-old boy.

The saint, who was Sri Mahaprabhuji, blessed him and told him, "Son, here are some sweets for you. Go home. Today is your birthday. I give you my blessings."
When Mahendra Maharaja came home and gave the money back to his mother and also the sweets, she was very surprised and asked, "Who paid for them?"

He told her the story, that there was a saint who paid. She took the boy with her and went back to the sweet-shop, looking for the saint, but he had already disappeared. From that day on, Mahendra Maharaja's heart was very sad, as he always missed the saint, longing to meet him again. Mahendra Maharaja studied his maternal grandfather's books. His grandfather was a very learned man, and Mahendra received a lot of knowledge from reading his books. By the time he grew up, his intellect and consciousness had developed so much, that whatever he had read once, stayed with him indelibly as he had a photographic memory. After some time, he was not happy in the house, so he left home. But, he continued his studies always. He received his Masters Degree from Bhagalpur University. Then he came to Northern India and started to walk from Northern India to the West-coast of India. He walked to a place called Mount Abu where there is a famous Siddha pith, a sanctuary of the Divine Mother called Ambaji.

While in search of his master, whom he had met as a child, he kept on doing penance at Ambaji for 22 years, always searching for his master. After 22 years of penance, the Divine Mother Amba appeared before him, manifesting before Mahandra Maharaja, telling him, "My child, the guru you are looking for you will find in the Kumaon region, the foothills of the Himalayas. Go there and you will find your master. Mahendra Maharaja started walking, crossing one mountain top after another, always looking for his guru. The whole day used to walk and wherever he came to at night, there he used to rest. After walking for days, one day he came to a place called Shitlakhet. Night had fallen, and in this place there was a tea shop whose owner was a man called Shiromani Patak.

When he saw Mahendra Maharaja, he realized that this was a great saint, so he suggested to him, that since night had fallen, he should come to his house as his guest to spend the night there. But, Mahendra Maharaja replied to Mr. Patak, "I will not come to your house, but rather show me a place where I can spend the night in meditation and remembrance of the Lord. Mr. Patak said to him, "Mahendra Maharaja, there is a beautiful place down the hill, on the other side of the mountain, which is called Siddhashram. Spend the night in my house and tomorrow morning I will send my servant to take you there. You can live there as long as you want to."

When Mahendra Maharaja came to Mr. Patak's house, he went and sat down in a place where the old Haidakhan Baba in His former incarnation used to come and sit. When Mr. Patak saw that Mahendra Maharaja was sitting in the same place as old Haidakhan Baba had been sitting, he fell down, prostrating himself at his feet, and he started to cry. Quite overwhelmed, he said, "Mahendra Maharaja, I'm very happy and honored that today you are sitting in the same place as the old Babaji used to sit. All the memories are flooding back into my mind."

He was so overwhelmed by this experience that Mr. Patak started narrating story after story about Herakhan Baba to Mahendra Maharaja about what a great divine being he was, and about all the things that had happened during his presence on earth. He brought out all the literature he had written and showed it to Mahendra Maharaja. The whole night both of them spent talking about Babaji, and in the morning Mahendra Maharaja said, "Please send somebody, or you come and take me, to Siddhashram." As they were talking, suddenly they saw a man coming down from hills who shouted and said to Mahendra Maharaja, "I would have come most happily with you, but I just saw the pujari of Siddhashram who will accompany you there. I will come later and bring the foodstuff with me."

Mahendra Maharaja and the pujari went and when they arrived there, Mahendra Maharaja was very happy to see a most beautiful and peaceful ashram. There was a spring also next to the ashram. The pujari told him that, when old Haidakhan Baba first came to this ashram, there was no water there and because there was no water, they asked for some people who looked for water with a divining rod. But even with a lot of effort, they could find very little water. So one day, old Haidakhan Baba took a bowl of water with Him and went there. First He smelt the water bowl. Then He just started to dig in the ground with His hands and a strong spring welled up, wide like an elephant's trunk, and now there is a constant flow of water.

Mahendra Maharaja went to this spring and took some water, drank it and then took a bath also. There is a near-by very old Divine Mother temple (Vaishnavi Devi) where he offered worship. Mahendra Maharaja described all these incidents in his autobiography called "Anupam Kripa." After a while he started to meditate there, but realized that his mind was not in the meditation. He was not comfortable there, so he stopped and fell asleep.

He dreamt that the Divine Mother Vaishnavi Devi appeared before him, saying, "My son, I am hungry." So Mahendra Maharaja replied, "Oh Divine Mother, you are feeding the whole of creation. It is not you who is hungry, but this child of yours who has not touched any food for the last three days. That is why you have pangs of hunger."

When he woke up, he saw Mr. Patak coming with a man, bringing everything to prepare food. In a short while food was cooked and offered to the Divine Mother Vaishnavi Devi as prasad, and then they all ate. For two or three days, Mahendra Maharaja was quite content to be there, but on the fourth day he thought, "To live like this is no good. If by tonight my Lord and guru, the Supreme Divine Being, does not appear before me, I'll end my life here."

Around 1:00 am, he woke up. He saw the (star) studded sky, he became even more depressed. So, again he went inside the cottage and locked the door from inside. After a short while, when he looked up, he saw Sri Babaji standing in full human form before him. He offered his pranam at His lotus feet. Babaji said to him, "Brahmachari, what is it you want?" So Mahendra Maharaja replied, "Oh Divine master, the way I am seeing You before me, I want all humanity to have your darshan. Come and make the world happy." To which Babaji replied, "Your desires will be fulfilled."

Then Mahendra Maharaja was in seventh heaven, ecstatic with joy, and after some time, he left Siddhashram and went to Haldwani. In Haldwani he said to some people, "Now that the Lord is coming on this earth, I have to go and do some work. I have to prepare the ground for His arrival. I have to prepare some literature so that people will know about Him."

After that he lived in Vrindaban for some time or in Lobhan. In Vrindaban he used to stand in the queue for the beggars, begging for food, moving here and there. At night, he used to sleep on the roof of the Shiva temple in Vrindaban called "Gopeshwara." He kept on visiting one place after another on foot. But later on in life, he used to go also by cars and trains. Once, he was visiting a place called Bandikui in Rajasthan. In Bandikui, my younger brother was living who was a district magistrate. One day a lawyer friend of his told him that a great saint had come, so he should go and have his darshan. My mother had been suffering from paralysis for 22 years. Therefore, my brother always used to go to these saints and ask for a cure and blessing for my mother, but nothing had helped so far. After my brother arrived at Mahendra Maharaja's place and had his darshan, he realized that he was a great saint as well as a great man with much knowledge. My brother requested him to come to his house the next day. Mahendra Maharaja replied, "Yes, I'll see." The next day, early in the morning, Mahendra Maharaja came with one of his followers to my house.

My mother was totally bedridden and could not move at all. When Mahendra Maharaja blessed her, touching her, what did we see? The next moment, she sat up in bed by herself! My brother then requested, "Mahendra Maharaja, please cure her completely." But, Mahendra Maharaja said, "That is enough. Whatever had to be done, as much as she could be cured, I have done."

Mahendra Maharaja then talked to my father, asking him, "How many sons do you have?" Then he also asked about the family. My father replied, "I have two sons. My elder son I have taught Sanskrit. This is my second son whom I have taught law and he is a magistrate. We are a brahmin family of a town called Alwar and our family is the family of the "raja gurus" (teachers of princes, hereditary advisors of the royal family). They used to perform all priestly functions at the court."

(Shastriji belongs to this family of princely advisors. His father told Mahendra Maharaja that nowadays the maharajas were no more, so he worked and his son also worked, and that is how they supported the family.)

After some time, Mahendra Maharaja wanted to leave for Vrindaban, so my father, my brother, and some servants took him to the railway station. As luck would have it, I came by the same train from Alwar (Rajgarh). As I stepped onto the platform, I was surprised to see my father, brother and servants with a bearded saint -- obviously, the saints wear saffron clothes, so I understood him to be a saint. I wondered who was this man and quickly went to offer my respects to my father who said, "Son, here is a great saint. Bow to him." Without asking a single question, I fell at his feet to offer my pranams, but he just took me in his arms, embraced me and calling me by my name, said, "Oh, brother Vishnu, now I have met you!" So, as the train started to move, my brother asked Mahendra Maharaja when he would see him again. He replied, "After one month, when you both will be together in one place, I will come and give you darshan." Exactly on the 30th day, my brother was transferred from Bandikui to our native town of Rajgarh where I used to live. After that, I had many experiences and witnessed many miracles with Mahendra Maharaja. One day I will share them with you. Now I just want to speak to you of my first meeting with Mahendra Maharaja.

       (Shastriji's property in Rajgarh)
What has he not given me! One day in Rajgarh, Mahendra Maharaja just touched my head and from that moment onwards, I started composing poems in Sanskrit which is a very difficult thing to do -- but they just started to flow through me. He said, "Today is the eighth day of the new moon and the Divine Mother's grace is one you, so whatever you want to write, start writing." After that, whenever I would sit down to write, a kind of plate of written words used to appear before me, and I would just copy it and keep on writing. And within ten days, I wrote my first book called "Sadguru Kusumanjali." I took this book and offered it to Mahendra Maharaja in Vrindaban. And when Mahendra Maharaja had read the book, he said, "I'm very happy. You have written like the great old master poets of India, like Kali Das and all the others. Your language is as good as theirs, if not better. You have written everything I wanted the world to know about my Lord Haidiyakhandi." Then he wrote a letter to Mr. Vora, a publisher in Bombay, to publish this book immediately. Mahendra Maharaja made one comment. "Son, your Sanskrit poems are beautiful, beyond fault, but your Hindi translation is not as good as it should be. I would like you to write in such a manner that, after 450 years, the world will say that, "Yes, he was another Tulsidas."

After that I stopped writing in Sanskrit and concentrated on writing in Hindi. It just kept on flowing. Then, during the nine-day festival of the Divine Mother, Navaratri, Mahendra Maharaja sent someone to call me to come to Vrindaban. It was the night of the seventh day of the festival. When I went and offered him my pranams, he said, "Now the time has come when you can start writing poems in Hindi as well." So I asked him, "Please give me some outline for this book." He turned and took a small photograph from the shelf and that photograph was of the old Haidakhan Baba. It was covered by garlands. He removed the garlands and took that photo and gave it to me. He also gave me the garlands and said to me, "Now go back home and put this garland on your little daughter (whom he had named Saraswati). She will tell you what to write."

Saraswati was then four years old. When I had arrived, as I was instructed by Mahendra Maharaja, I put the garlands on my four year-old daughter Saraswati, and the moment I put the garlands on her neck (she could not walk, so I was carrying her), she felt for my pen. I took it out and from that time onwards, my daughter would just come, draw all kinds of lines on the blank paper that was lying there. Everyday she would draw all kinds of lines -- straight, crossed, or anything -- on several sheets of paper, and I would just fill up as many pages with beautiful poetry. As I would come to the last page (on) which she had marked and made her lines, she would come running from where she had been playing outside and say, "Give me the pen." She would again draw more lines on five or ten pages, so I kept on writing.

The whole of my family was amazed at what was happening. This was the happy period of my life, because at that time, Mahendra Maharaja visited my house at least 40 times. Whenever he came, he would say, "Come on. Write. Finish it off quickly, because when Sri Mahaprabhuji comes, when will you find the time to write? Finish it as quickly as you can. Don't be late!" My brother, who was a great devotee of Mahendra Maharaja, used to come and visit Mahendra Maharaja every Saturday and then go back to his work. He said to Mahendra Maharaja, "You make my brother write all these pages but without the presence of the deity, how will people understand who He is? There should be a murti (statue) deity about whom you are writing."
Mahendra Maharaja instructed my brother to go to Jaipur and there, my got three statues made and brought them to Mahendra Maharaja. The question arose where these murtis should be installed. A place called Kathgharia near Haldwani was selected and there a temple was built and the murti of old Haidakhan Baba was installed. According to the Christian calendar, this was in 1958. The night before the installation, thousands of people were there for this ceremony. A divine light was seen by all of them which had the form of Babaji. These thousands of people, - men, women, children -- all saw this with their own eyes, going into ecstasy on seeing this manifestation of Babaji appearing before them. Mahendra Maharaja called out, "He is here! He is here! The eternal form of Lord Shiva Lord Haidiyakhandi is here!"


In 1969, my brother died in Gangapur while he held the post of District Judge. I wrote a letter to Mahendra Maharaja saying, "Your servant and devotee, my brother, has died and I am without any support now." My brother left his body on June 10, 1969, and my letter reached Mahendra Maharaja on June 23, 1969. When he read my letter, tears started streaming from his eyes and he said, "When such a good devotee of mine is no more, what am I doing living in this world?" And he left his body on the same day. On June 23, 1969, Mahendra Maharaja left his body, and in 1970, Sri Mahaprabhuji appeared. On February 25, 1971, he was brought to Vrindaban. This date, February 25, is the 12th day after leaving His body (Sri Mahaprabhuji i.e. -- February 14, 1984).



For 13 years, Sri Mahaprabhuji kept on giving darshan sitting on His ceremonial seat in Vrindaban. He went and gave darshan in many places, but these were the two main places where He resided -- Haidakhan and Vrindaban.

Mahendra Maharaja used to keep on praying to Sri Mahaprabhuji, "Oh Lord, please come on earth and be involved with us, because when you are not involved with us, you are beyond the human mind, beyond the human race, and if you come down to this earth and you are with us, you can lift us up."

Sri Mahaprabhuji performed thousands of small yagnas, but His great yagnas were 171 in number, in which thousands of people participated and ate the bandharas. Hundreds of quintals of offerings were given into the sacred fires. Who has the capacity to bring down the Divine Supreme Being, the Divine Supreme Brahma, from up there to this earth? The great tapasya and self-sacrifice of Mahendra Maharaja could do this! For just a minute-manifestation, or for a minute-realization of the Supreme Divine Being, great sages have spent life after life in penance, in prayer. But, with the prayer of Mahendra Maharaja, Sri Mahaprabhuji was brought down to this earth, and we had the privilege and grace to see Him day after day for 13 years! When Sri Mahaprabhuji wanted to reveal Himself to someone, even though that person was very far away, He gave that person indications-- ' revealing Himself to him or her', but when He did not want to reveal Himself, even to those who were very close and lived with Him for 24 hours, (they) did not see anything. His sole purpose of coming here was to give grace to mankind. Every day, as long as He was here on this earth, He spent all His time, all 24 hours, to propagate "Om Namaha Shivaya", karma yoga, and the fire-ceremony, as you all have witnessed when you visited Him. In between His teaching karma yoga, the fire-ceremony and "Om Namah Shivaya", Sri

Mahaprabhuji often used to emphasize that very bad times were coming and that there would be a revolution. To counteract this great revolution, that it might (not) wipe us out, we should partake in the great spiritual revolution. The only way of not being wiped out by this great revolution is to participate in the great spiritual revolution by repeating the great mantras, like "Om Namaha Shivaya", (and) by doing puja (offering devotion and worship). These are the only three things which can save man from the catastrophe. Whenever Sri Mahaprabhuji used to come out of His rooms -- many of you who were in Haidakhan will have heard this call -- "BE ALERT! BE PREPARED!"

He has taught us that we must change our hearts for the better. Once the bad heart changes into a good heart, from individuals to nations, there will not be any war but (rather) peace among nations. If mankind is to be saved (Sri Mahaprabhuji appeared before and told us it is possible, since He had come to give us blessing and showed us the path), then we must change our hearts. We must take part in the spiritual revolution. Only then can we be saved.

(Shastriji has just quoted Mahendra Maharaja who had written that by a change of heart, the face of the earth can be changed.)

The change of the heart can change kranti (revolution) into shanti (peace). As great scientists are working every minute of their waking hours to create nuclear and other weapons to destroy mankind, the same way you should be partaking in this great effort of repeating "Om Namaha Shivaya" or any other great mantra that you want to recite, and with this force, change the course of annihilation into peace. For spiritual strength is much greater, thousands of times greater, than material might. Sri Mahaprabhuji appeared to us for the benefit of mankind, to give all the good mankind was lacking. He wanted harmony and for mankind to be one family, only that there should be no class or caste distinctions. He wanted all the world to live together I harmony.

Every country, all nations should be brothers. There should be no distinctions between colors, black, or white, or yellow. Everybody in harmony, unitedly, enjoying this beautiful creation of the Lord. As you all have gathered here and are doing this beautiful job in this most beautiful place, the same way, spread the message of Sri Mahaprabhuji, of truth, simplicity and love to the maximum amount of people, to all corners of the world and start gathering together in harmony, in peace, in love and truth and simplicity, to live in that manner and unite the world as one big family. At the end of every speech Sri Mahaprabhuji always used to say, "Be fearless and the moment that you become fearless, nothing on this earth can touch you. No catastrophe, no other adverse force can touch you!"

BHOLE BABA KI JAI!
JAI MAHA MAYA KI JAI!
JAI MAHAPRABHUJI KI JAI!
JAI VISHWA!

 

 

Αλήθεια,Απλότητα, Αγάπη
Verdad, Simplicidad, Amor
Truth, Simplicity. Love
 

 Om nama Shivay

 

Sri Shastriji speaks about mundan and the mantra Haidiyakhandi

Sri Shastriji at Siddhashram Schweibenalp, May 8, 1985

Today I would like to speak to you about mundan and the mantra Haidiyakhandi.

Indian culture is deeply associated with the Vedic culture, and when a child is born in an Indian home, until it dies, there are 16 stages of consecration which are performed on him or her. And these 16 Vedic sanskaras are not only part of the Indian culture, for the Vedas are the support of the whole creation, of the world, of the the universe, and that is why these 16 states of consecration are meant to be performed on each and every living creature.

The origin of the Aryan race is, as you all know, from Europe, but they wanted to explore the world and that is why they started to go outside of Europe. And with the passage of time they reached India, more precisely the Himalayas. And there, in the Himalayas, they discovered the holy rivers Yamuna and Ganga. Himalayan beauty enchanted them so much that, in the search for knowledge, they decided to settle down there. They became the great sages and the rishis of the Himalayas. While they lived there, they kept on coming and going between Europe and the Himalayas, and they kept up the contact. It is also a well-known fact that the origin of the Vedas and its criticism was from Europe. From Europe also we collected many things and took them to India.

In this continuation of giving and taking, the culture was preserved. The sages were very keen that the complete culture of the Aryan race should be shared by the whole world and that it should become one. But in those days, the coming and going was not so easy -- as the airplanes did not exist then. Therefore, because of these difficulties, it was not possible to communicate the Vedic culture to the entire world. Yet everything still depends on the Vedic culture.

I mentioned the 16 sanskaras; of the 16 stages of consecration. The first one is the stage of conception. When the child is conceived in the mother's womb, this is considered the sanskara, and when the embryo is 7 months old, there is another ceremony which is known as the simanta ceremony. When the child is born, and when the placenta is cut, this is considered the third one. And the fourth sanskara, the mundan sanskara, which is known as the jhaule sanskara, is performed in the sixth month. And this sanskara is necessary for every human being. Keeping this in mind, Sri Mahaprabhuji made it more or less obligatory in Haidakhan that everybody should have a mundan. Before the initiation is given, before the sacred thread is given, the mundan sanskara is necessary. At this point it was performed regularly.

In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna says to Arjuna that this human body is like the tree called pipul tree, the ashwata tree. I'm sure, many of you who have visited Haidakhan, have noticed that there are two ashwata trees near Sri Mahaprabhuji's kutir.

When Lord Krishna compared the human body with the ashwata tree, he meant that the roots of this tree are up above, and the branches face down so that it is not perishable, and that body is the ashwata tree. The wishes and desires of a human being are the leaves of this tree. Those who know this human body to be like the ashwata tree, are the real knowers of the Vedas. In the human body, the crown chakra (sahasrara) is the root of the body and from that root, the small twigs are the hair. And any good gardener knows that when he wants to plant a healthy tree, and wants that tree to be strong, he will dig a sizable hole. Further, from that small tree, he will try to cut away all the small unimportant roots and keep on adding fertilizers to make it stronger, so that when the tree grows, it turns out to be a really solid tree.

The same way as the twigs of the ashwata tree, if the master doesn't get the hair removed from the head, a man does [????????] (crown chakra) is the root of spiritual knowledge. The direct touch of the guru's hand on the head gives you the initiation of the shaktipat with which the kundalini energy is awakened. But if the hair remains on the head's crown and the guru touches it, the energy of power does not reach the sahasrara properly. And another thing, in a human horoscope, Saturn always tries to stop the progress of spiritual life and it is believed that Saturn lives in the hair. Until the hair is removed, Saturn keeps on pestering and impeding progress and is not pacified. The power of thought doesn't develop either, (not) as much as when you have mundan. I am sure you will have had the occasion to observe that in those places where mundan is not done, people's minds are not as developed as it is in many places where this ritual is being observed.

Bearing this Vedic culture in mind, Sri Mahaprabhuji had this ritual performed as a necessity for the spiritual growth of his disciples. And while He was here with His physical body, when ever anybody came and whenever He thought that a person needed it, Sri Mahaprabhuji ordered that His disciples went through the ritual of mundan. And with this ceremony the disturbing influence of Saturn was annihilated.

Now I will share with you the most secret aspect contained in the mantra Haidiakhandi.

With the grace of Sri Mahendra Swamiji Maharaja, the book "Shri Sadashiva Charitamrita" was written and published in 1961. Within his lifetime, the criticism and interpretation of this book was also written, but was not published then. A short while after Sri Mahaprabhuji appeared in 1970, he said to me, "In your house there is a written book ready. Please bring it here." And when I brought this book, "Shri Sadashiva Charitamrita," to Him, Sri Mahaprabhuji heard it from my own mouth from the first chapter to the end. And after having listened to the whole book, Sri Mahaprabhuji commented, "This is perfect. This is what I wanted." Sri Mahaprabhuji wanted that all religions should be united and that there should be a book in which they were given a common base, a universal book.

And I requested of Sri Mahaprabhuji, "Now that you have appeared before the world, you should give it some teaching on kriya yoga." For kriya yoga had not been given fully, so I wanted that Sri Mahaprabhuji should complete His teaching on it.

Sri Mahaprabhuji told me that now the time is not ripe for the world to know the secrets of kriya yoga. When the time comes, He would open the treasure of this knowledge and give it to the world. As you might have read in the "Autobiography of a Yogi," there is a mention of kriya yoga, and also in many other books like this. But there is no book in which there is a description of how kriya yoga should be done, or how it should be taught. Everyone was told to go to the master, to the guru, and find out what it was.

These disciples in search of masters, kept on wandering here, there, everywhere, and then would find a master who whispered something into their ears, telling them that this is how kriya yoga is done. But in our Vedic literature and all other religious books, nothing is secret, everything is open for everyone to interpret as they wish.

After my repeated prayers to Sri Mahaprabhuji that He should tell me what I should write, He told me that I should compose a ninth chapter. For each chapter He would tell me what I should write. And whatever Sri Mahaprabhuji told me, I wrote. It was the complete description of kriya yoga in His presence. Many times He listened to what I had written. But when He had finished, I prayed to Sri Mahaprabhuji saying, "It will be impossible for the present mankind to follow this kind of yoga, because today, at this stage, human beings eat all kinds of food which is not pure (as are vegetables, ghee, etc.). I mean all the kinds of chemical food, and this is why it is impossible for them to follow this deep and difficult yoga."

So when I protested to Sri Mahaprabhuji that nobody would be able to do this yoga of present mankind, Sri Mahaprabhuji laughed and said, "Shastriji, don't worry. This yoga will be followed by someone who will be born -- there is no end to time, and there is no end to the universe -- somewhere, a human being will be born who will understand it and do this yoga. Maybe, one person only, and maybe five persons, or maybe a few more will understand it and will be able to perform and live this yoga, and this will be sufficient to make it available to mankind, for it should no longer remain secret."

At the same time, Sri Mahaprabhuji told me, "If you are satisfied, if it makes you happy, I will teach to present mankind of this yuga (era), the yoga of "Haidiyakhandi". And as I was writing this literature on Haidakhan Babaji (in the 50s), Sri Mahendra Maharaja one day came by car to my house and told me, "Shastriji, all this time, we have been writing on Haidakhan, on Haidakhan Baba, etc., but now I have been given the permission by Babaji to tell the world the meaning of the name Haidiyakhandi". So when I prayed to Sri Mahendra that he should tell me the secret mystery of the name Haidiyakhandi, he said that at the moment it is all right to just explain what is Haidiyakhandi. Haidiyakhandi is the one who lives on the continent of Haidakhan. Just as we have the European continent, or America and Australia are known as continents, the same way in India in ancient times, the different regions were known as continents, and so Mahendra Maharaja said that this is sufficient for the world to know, that Haidakhan is the continent of Haidakhan Baba who lives in this continent. Sri Mahendra Maharaji also said to me (Shastriji), "I'm revealing to you only a very small portion of what Haidiyakhandi means, but when Babaji appears to you and the world, He himself will reveal to you the whole mystery of this name."

And when Sri Mahaprabhuji told me that He could tell me the secrets of the mantra "Haidiyakhandi" immediately, I was reminded of what had happened with Mahendra Maharaji years ago, when he had told me that, when Sri Mahaprabhuji appears, He himself will tell you the real meaning of Haidiyakhandi.

And while explaining the meaning of this great name, Prabhuji told me that, when the actions of yoga start in the body, they start first in the muladhara chakra, from below. But this "Haidiyakhandi yoga" is a very special yoga which starts from the sahasrara chakra, from the top. And one by one, from above downwards, it will pierce all the chakras. When I further questioned Him to explain to me more precisely, Sri Mahaprabhuji told me that there are five syllables in "Hai-di-ya-khan-di." In the Sanskrit alphabet, each letter has a particular place in the body. Hai has a place in the throat. According to the rules of grammar, ai is mixed in Hai and pronounced from the talu (the throat). Each of the five syllables has a letter both pronounced from the throat and belonging to the topmost chakra, so that in reciting these five syllables constantly, one travels only in the uppermost chakras, purifying them. This Haidiyakhandi yoga, which gives everything to a human being who follows it, is a yoga between throat and crown chakra and has no connection with any of the lower parts of the body. It rules all the chakras from the sahasrara, from the top. By constantly chanting the mantra "Haidiyakhandi' all the chakras of a human being are pierced, and he becomes the owner of all the siddhis (the great powers), which are known as the ashta siddhis (the eight divine powers) and the nau nidhis (the ninefold divine blessings). This is one of the most important points of this yoga which Mahaprabhuji showed to us.

Everyday I was reading the 'Haidakhandi Sapta Shati." One day while reading the last stanzas, I came across a sloka which I noticed immediately, for it contained these words, "By chanting constantly and repeatedly My name, a man obtains all the siddhis (all the powers of yoga)."

Then again, Sri Mahaprabhuji showed me another mystery. According to the grammatical rules, when you join two words, it becomes different. The same way Sri Mahaprabhuji explained, that the one who resides in 'Haidakhan" is "Haidiyakhandi." According to the grammar Panini, one of the most famous Indian grammarians of Vedic time, you have to add "i" to the name, whenever you want to change a male gender into a female gender. Then you have the feminine gender. Like "Shiva": Shiva is the male gender and when you want to make it female, it becomes "Shivani", by adding "i" to the last letter. Also, Yam-Yami, Indra-Indrani, and the same way, Haidiyakhandi. On this earth as it stands, there is not a single name in which has the male and female joined into one. Like "Sita" is the female and "Ram" is the male. They are two different names, but they become one by joining them -- but they are two different names. "Sita" is the shakti, the energy, and Ram is the brahma. "Radha" is the energy, Krishna is the brahma. That is why one who resides in Haidakhan is called Haidakhandi, that is, masculine energy. Then, who is the female energy? It is the queen, Mahamaya -- Haidakhandi, the female energy. She is also part of this name (Haidakhandeshvari).

Many people offered prayers and did Aarati to Sri Mahaprabhuji as Sri Mahaprabhuji. But there were times, when people put a sari on Sri Mahaprabhuji, worshipping Him, offering aarati to Him as Mahamaya. And He proved it to us, that within Himself, Brahma and Mahamaya both resided together. He proved to us that there is no need for us to do a separate sadhana, separate yoga for the male and female energy, for Brahma and Mahamaya. By chanting, or doing japa of "Haidiyakhandi", we worship both together. For the universal good of mankind, Sri Mahaprabhuji has given us the great boon of this mantra. And when I finished the 9th chapter, I closed the book, so Sri Mahaprabhuji laughed and said, "Well, now that the book is finished, and all is written down, what is the need for me to be here any more?"

BHOLE BABA KI JAI
SADGURU BAGHAWAN SRI HAIDAKHAND KI JAI
PARAMGURU SRI MAHENDRA MAHARAJA KI JAI
JAGDAMBE MATA KI JAI
HAIDAKHANDESHWARI MATA KI JAI
JAI VISHWA
SRI MUNIRAJI MAHENDRA KI JAI