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Haidakhandi International Journal Embodying Babaji ? Haidakhandi International Journal Incorporating the Indian Haidakhandi Samaj News Autumn 2017 - Journal 16 - www.hi-journal.com Embodying Babaji ? 1 CONTENTS Embodying Babaji Contributions by 12 devotees 4-22 Gurupurnima in Rieferath A delightful Gurupurnima celebration 23-24 Why is Gurupurnima Celebrated - by Sanjeev 25 Next Generation Gathering - July 2017 26 Havan speech - Rieferath by Raghuvir 27 Satsang at Rieferath 28-29 News from India Alok Banerjee 30 Navratri at the Haidakhan Ashram - by Sanjeev 31-32 9 New Publications by the Haidakhandi Samaj 33-35 Chilianaula Ashram Temple Repair - by Vijay 36 Festival dates 37-38 Invitation to Havan Training in Chilianaula 38 Notes from America – by Loknath 39-40 A story of Babaji by Raghuvir 41 Divine Recipes 42 Editorial 43 2 Be firm like a rock, deep and serious like the sea. Think of the earth as a mother. This is one earth. Don’t be divided by thinking of yourselves as belonging to different countries. We belong to one earth. Proceed with this in mind. Look to the future with a vision of good1 deeds for the whole world, not just one country. Have great courage and patience. 7-4-1983 Embodying Babaji From Alok Banerjee : My feeling is that Babaji is our focus and Love is our way. This is my fundamental understanding, whether it’s with what you call our whole sangha or in this group here for Gurupurnima at Rieferath. Whatever we are doing, such as our practices on the spiritual path or service for the community, our focus is Babaji. And we should not lose sight of that. When I say focus, I mean that we all know He’s not in His physical body here, but it His energy which is making it all happen for all of us. That’s what is keeping us together – His Energy. We talk together about what He gave us and how He makes Himself, His presence, felt all the time. And there are different ways He has shown us how to practice, for instance, singing aarti together, in satsang and at the havan – and these are helping us to be together. These big functions, like each Gurupurnima in the West and attending the Navratris in India, etc., it’s all His Energy, and we are all concentrated and all focused on Him. Also in our community services such as in the hospitals in Ranikhet – the centre, our focus is Babaji. I come from India; you are from England, another from Australia. Why are we coming together: to feel Him in us and to share our feelings together. That is the biggest gift He has given us – that is His blessing. It’s such a big family He has made and, as in our own families, we can have disagreements and misunderstandings. But we can all come back to Babaji. He shows us the road forward, for example what you are doing through the Next Generation Gatherings. Our focus is always the same. Without that focus we can go haywire. The Next Generation Gathering is a wonderful opportunity you are creating. It’s a platform to guide and show the younger generation a path forward. As Babaji said: I have shown you the way and also have given you free will. If you follow me I am there with you and I will show you the way. 4 It’s such a wonderful opportunity He creates for all of us to come together, whether we are in harmony or not. He has shown us the way, He says: I am Harmony. That’s how I see Babaji, His spiritual teachings: if we focus our energy on Him, He is always with us and there to guide us. This is what keeps me going. Who am I ? I am nothing: a humble servant of Babaji, to serve Him as best I can. I have my limitations, I have my faults, but beyond that it’s Babaji who guides me. And I want to share with the whole family whatever little I‘ve learnt in the last 30 years, that I have experienced Babaji. Editor: You have the most difficult job of all of us, leading our international family. I don’t find it difficult except for my physical abilities. Whenever I ask for His guidance He has always been with me. Also Munirajji was a great guide for me, like my elder brother and my teacher. Though I was initiated by Babaji, I have learnt all the practical things from Munirajji. He initiated murtis and taught me how to do that and the havan mantras, and he helped me in many other ways. He was a wonderful guide for me. At times we would get frustrated ! But his Patience is what I learnt from him. And I would not advise, but can share with all our brothers and sisters that when we are in difficulties if we can have our trust and faith in Babaji, He will guide us. Have faith. It’s not always easy but it’s the only way we can be together, growing together sharing our problems and our love, to have our focus on Babaji. There are many challenges in India too like in the ashrams, it’s not always easy. Ultimately He helps. Sometimes I go wrong, we are all human beings but if I’m driven by an idea or motivation to do something in a particular way, it’s His force, His energy, and it’s beyond us to solve our own problems. Ultimately you come back to Him. We are all a molecular part of Him. What is our common feature? It is Babaji. 5 Sanjeev Sarna: The last five days for me here at Gurupurnima is the search for how to follow Babaji. It’s the only answer and direction for me these days. There was once one teaching: ‘I will make the lion and the goat drink from the same pond’. So how to can we take ourselves, guide ourselves, in this direction? Yes we are all not the same, all Indians are not the same, so can we find a way where we can enjoy our differences and not build walls between those differences. Difference is not bad. The great saint Swami Vivekananda said that each human being is a seed with infinite potential and is different from each other. Therefore it is each individual’s responsibility to think very carefully to create harmony. Culturally we are all different. However my observation is that all human beings are born with the seven sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth), but our intellectual, emotional and spiritual needs are the same. We all want to be accepted, we all want to be loved and most importantly we all want to be respected. We have a huge opportunity in the Babaji family to find the common goals for the larger good of the community and the world. Each Babaji devotee when he walks in any geography should radiate love, warmth of heart and respect for each and everyone. There was a time in India when there was a belief that there are 330 million gods and goddesses, in reality there were not 330 million Gods and Goddesses, but 330 million human beings in this world. Each human being is born divine and is divine. While we don’t respect and love the subjective divine in each one of us, we will not be able to find the absolute divine that is Babaji. The teacher of Swami Vivekananda was Paramahansa Ramakrishna. Ramakrishna said there is no one way to the divine. He further added: ‘Yatha Mat Tatha Pat’ – as many paths, as many minds – no way is better than the other. They are all good. Never commit the sin of saying that my path is better. The way I have embodied Babaji is by the way of first serving my fellow brothers and sisters, then the rest of the world. Serving unconditionally has helped me to sublimate my own ego and my limited self to this service. Twenty-two years back when I was full of myself and 6 hated each and every Babaji devotee, Babaji gave me a vision that the path to Him is to love everyone. He very clearly told me: ‘Until such time that you can love each person that you meet in your life, you will not reach Me’. Over the last five days in Rieferath, He has time and time again told me: ‘Love and Serve everyone with complete acceptance and do not use your own mind’. Question: Do you think our sangha can or is embodying Babaji? We are all work in progress, all on the path. We are here in the Babaji sangha because of many past lives we had and it is our good fortune to be part of this family. This path has no destination, with awareness of the tenets of Babaji’s teachings; we have to keep walking together. What we need is a complete awareness of what Babaji said: I Am Harmony. We have to find harmony with each other. Walter just said that: ‘I may completely disagree with you, yet I will always protect your right of expression.’ When someone thinks differently from us, he is not against us, just different, and we can compromise with other people: maybe we are angry about each other’s thoughts, but we can start serving them. By sacrificing the currents of our mind it enables us to sublimate our little ego, which is the path for transcending our limited self.
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