AUM BABAJI NAMA! - Kriya Babaji Nagaraj

symbol of God on Earth, for the elaborate Persian rituals including animal sacrifices. In the Gathas of
Zarathushtra, stress is laid not on ritualism, but on conduct and its moral motives, such as
Vohumano, Asha and Aramaiti 1 . Ahura Mazda is the supreme benevolent Providence, the good and
great God. Zarathushtra gave to mankind the ideal of fighting alongside God and against Evil. The
Zoroastrian ideal is the ideal of the fighter. By the force of his will and deed of sacrifice, man should
achieve haurvatat, welfare in this world, and ameratal, immortality in the other.
“And then for Christianity in a nutshell. Jesus Christ, whose advent marks the commencement of the
Western era, was born in Bethlehem of the Virgin Mary. Even as a boy He struck the wise men of his
time as one commissioned to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. His fame spread far and
wide and there followed him great multitudes of people form Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from
Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan. His Sermon on the Mount is so unique that it
will go down in posterity as something momentous.
“And, last and not least, you should know that Mohamed, the great prophet of Arabia, abolished all
the Gods of the Arabian Pantheon, except their chief Allah Ta’Alah, God the Most High. And, under
that ancient and well received appellation, He established the Oneness of the Origin, the
Government, and the life of the universe. Islam, the name by which the Prophet’s religion is known,
means peace and resignation to God’s will. The soul of Islam is the declaration of the unity of God.
Its heart is the inculcation of an absolute resignation to His will. The Quran, the Sacred Book of
Islam, contains the words which came to Mohamed in his state of trance. Because the angel of Mt.
Hira bade him ‘Read’, and insisted on his ‘Reading’, though he was illiterate, the Sacred Book is
known as Al-Quran, ‘The Reading’, a meaning which is similar to the term ’Sruti’, ‘what is hear’, by
which the Veda is known.
“And, as this should be sufficient for your present book, ‘Mysticism Unlocked’, let me finish up with
a few words for you and your other half, two in one and one in two and leave you to get on with the
book.”
V.T.N.: “But, Babaji, how can I get on unless you…”
Babaji: “No buts! Listen, my child, carefully. I have chosen you and it is my duty to see you through.
For the present, be satisfied with that. And now, get me clearly, sit silent in an easy and comfortable
posture. Let thoughts burst forth with all their forcible swing for the mind. Do not check them.
Watch silently and unattached. Do not follow them. Do not dog their steps and wrench yourself.
Merely watch and be the ‘witness’.
“The physical discomforts or the unkind treatment of others should not ruffle the serenity of your
mind. Let there exist not a trace of melancholy in your presence. The ups and downs in life are the
order of nature. They chasten your character and smoothen its angularities, leading it ultimately to
perfection.
1 Vohumano: Good thought, Asha: righteousness, Aramaiti:devine wisdom
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