AUM BABAJI NAMA! - Kriya Babaji Nagaraj

Mataji: “Master, (entreatingly) I have glimpsed your plan. Why should you leave your body?”
Babaji: “Because it makes no difference to be visible or invisible.”
Mataji: “Guru-Deva, if it makes no difference please do not discard your form.”
Aum! The beloved Master consented to retain His physical body which will be visible to a selected
few only. Thus a first-rate crisis in the history of the Kriya movement was staved off through the
intervention of the holy sister. Jai Mataji!
After the conversation the great Master pacified the frightened Ram Gopal. Then the three Masters
levitated and left for their respective destinations. On returning to Gurdeswar Mohulla lodge, Ram
Gopal was surprised to hear that his Guru, who, fully aware of the night’s interlude, was also
physically present at home to discourse to the other disciples on immortality. He became aware of
Lahiri Mahasaya having attained the lofty state of being present in the different places with two
bodies at the same time.
One of the important disciples of this Kriya Guru was Swami Pranabananada who was able to unite
with Brahman through the intercession of his master. Later he attained the Universal Vision and
developed the Yogic power of being present in more than one body at different places. Finally, he
shuffled off his mortal coils at the appointed hour by second Kriya, and as already announced,
enjoyed a brief period of Bliss before being reborn. A few years after his new birth he joined the
immortal group of Kriya Babaji.
The Christ like life of Lahiri Mahasaya was drawing to a close. Kriya Mula-Guru chose Sri Yukteswar,
one of his foremost disciples, to carry on the Mission and make preliminary preparations for
spreading the Kriya Gospel of Happiness to the West.
Encouraged by Lahiri Mahasaya, Yukteswar was attending the Prayag Kumbha Mela in January, 1894
and getting disgusted with the noise and the assemblage of inferior sadhus who, he thought, were
wasting their lives, unlike Western scientists. Just then a strange Saint with bright yogic eyes and
circle of impressive disciples called and embraced him on the bank of the very low R. Ganga. This
Saint was Babaji Himself who did not reveal His identity to make the visitor quite at home.
He hinted that Sri Yukteswar will one day become a sanyasi 1 . As years rolled past this came true.
Then Babaji taught him to behave like the mythical swan (which drinks milk discarding the water)
instead of blaming the whole congregation of Mela Sadhus for the faults of the many.
Now the conversation drifted to the age long problem of mysticism: activity which is better known
as the East-West Conflict. Babaji, with His international mission, spoke with great emotion on the
need for the harmonious development of the Orient and Occident (Eastern and Western peoples)
through Kriya Yoga. He promised to send a disciple who will be the first missionary in the modern
age to carry the message of Kriya to the West and also asked him to write a small book on the basic
1 A saint that is absorbed into the Universal Soul, freed from the cycle of death and rebirth.
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