Videos- Anniversary of Shiva Mahavatar Babaji's Mahasamadhi

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" Shri Haidakhan Babaji took Maha Samadhi on Valentine's Day, 1984

From Marge at babaji.net

 

 About Haidakhan and Babaji's Teachings on LOVE.... (from " I AM HARMONY " by

Radhe Shyam)

 

 It is the Presence of Truth, Simplicity and Love which draws rich and poor,

saint and sinner, the powerful and the strugglers to this place.

 

" You can only know Me through Love "

 

For a God of Love, Shri Babaji spoke rather infrequently about love. In

comparison to the talks about jap, karma yoga, changing the world, or

prophesies, there are few that place a direct focus on love. Yet love stirs

people into purposeful action - karma yoga, and karma yoga is what Babaji said

perfects love. Jap helps to purify the mind so love can be mind's controlling

impulse.

 

Everything Babaji teaches, everything He does in human form revolves around

love, expresses His love and is aimed at leading the devotee to the perfection

of love. But, in keeping with His desire for " practical human beings " to

populate the earth, He taught people to do things which stimulate the growth of

love, reflect their love, and perfect it through experience and constant

repetition in action until it becomes the only motivation for human activity.

Because He sees the Creation as One - all created things as manifestation of the

divine substance and energy - there is little or no distinction in His teachings

between a human being's love for God and love for created forms.

 

The love which Shri Babaji exemplifies was not a romantic sexual love; it was

not 'namby-pamby, ' meekly accepting whatever came His way. His love was clear,

rational, detached; He could as easily hit a devotee as He could touch in

blessing - depending on which was truly more helpful to His devotee at the

moment.

 

The giving and receiving relationship between mother and child is closer to the

love which Babaji expressed than that of lover and beloved. In India, and

elsewhere, The Divine is often worshipped as the Divine Mother; and Babaji was

seen by many of His devotees as 'Mother.' There is even a 'Mother aarati'

(worship service) which was often offered to Babaji. When He completed His

ministry, He left behind Him 'Haidakhandeshwari Mata (the Divine Mother of

Haidakhan),' as His Shakti (or consort), as the Energy and Love of God, in much

the same way as Christ spoke of the Holy spirit as Comforter and Guide.

 

His whole 'life' was one of loving service. When Gaura Devi came to Haidakhan

Ashram, Babaji told her, " Babaji means all people service. " His entire day was

given in loving, supportive service to His devotees - and not just to those

physically present in the ashram. He was patient - working at whatever pace was

possible - but He was also capable of jumping into any activity the had lost its

momentum and energizing it by drastic action. He was constantly giving -

material objects, spiritual blessings, needed knowledge. When He spoke about

love and service, it was from practical 'human' experience, as well as from the

Divine Wisdom in Him.

 

 Like many spiritual teachers, Shri Babaji used the phrases " God is Love " or

" Love is God. " He seemed to indicate that the formless God - Absolute, complete

in Itself - is nevertheless energized by Love. Love is the energy of God which

creates, maintains and enlivens the Universe with its pulsing vibrations or

waves, and which also stimulates the active, caring, purifying relationship

between God in Its many divine forms and the individual, embodied souls that are

struggling to recall their unity and oneness with God.

 

He saw love as the bond or the channel of communication between God and human

beings. " You can only know Me through love - Divine Love, love for God, without

any selfish purpose. " Love is also the unifying force among disparate human

beings: " live here with love for each other, like members of one family. Discard

jealousy and envy. Because you are all one, live here in peace. If you are in

peace, I am in peace; if you have problems, I have problems. "

 

Babaji took on many people's problems for them. Some found peace just by talking

to Babaji and leaving their problems with Him. Sometimes He solved a problem

with a gift, a word of advice, or by instructing another devotee to help the

person with a problem. There seemed to be no limit to what He would do for those

devotees who came to Him with problems. "