Shiva Mahavatar Babaji

© Copyright 2006 Pola Churchill.

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Contents

NOTES

FOREWORD

CHAPTER I      MY EXPERIENCE OF BABAJI

CHAPTER II      HAIDAKHAN WALE BABA

CHAPTER III      WHO IS BABAJI?

CHAPTER IV      BABAJPS TEACHINGS

CHAPTER V      THE TRANSLITERATION OF THE AARATI

CHAPTER VI      DREAMS, VISIONS, AND ENCOUNTERS

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RECOMMENDED FURTHER READING

HEALING TESTIMONIALS.

BOOK REVIEW: SHIVA MAHAVATAR BABAJI By Pola Churchill.

DECEMBER 1997-WHOLE LIFE TIMES-LOS ANGELES.

There are few books that can take you on a journey to faraway places and also offer amazing insights. Shiva Mahavatar Babaji, by Pola Churchill is one of those books. Within the pages of this short, concise narrative, the reader is taken on a journey into the Himalayan mountains, ‘Where great saints and yogis of the past and present have made their ancestral homes since the beginning of creation’ Shiva Mahavatar Babaji, is the incredible story of adventure of spiritual awakening and spiritual awareness. Testimonials from people who knew Babaji are fascinating and at times extraordinary. If one is unfamiliar with Babaji, this is an excellent book to provide information on who He was, and what He taught. And, if one is already acquainted with His teachings, the book offers other insights central to His message.

This book is a great introduction to Babaji. Babaji is the source of all healing.

LEONARD ORR-Founder Of Rebirthing Breathwork and author of twenty-nine books including BREAKING THE DEATH HABIT.

This powerful book about Babaji is an invitation from life to go to the realm of the true and the God Zone. It is a very special book.

SONDRA RAY, author of seventeen books on Rebirthing and healing including her latest book PELE’S WISH.

A great book about the Yogi Christ Of India. Babaji is the master of physical immortality.

MONY VITAL, immortal being, author of the books, AGELESS LIVING and LIFE UNLIMITED. Creator of ENERGETIC BALANCING.

Mahavatar Babaji contains powerful and thought provoking information oncerning the wonderment of Babaji. Pola Churchills’ authentic search for the truth about an Immortal Avatar is both intriguing and engaging.

JAMES A.SINCLAIR-Executive Producer/ Host The Good News TV Show-Alberta, Canada.

Pola Churchill has written a book about Shiva Mahavatar Babaji. Pay attention! Babaji has directly inspired her writing-no small accomplishment, and Pola knows the spiritual territory well. Let the Sat Guru whisper in your mind the highest truths as you tune your mind along with Pola’s, to the Divine Mind which has inspired her to write about Babaji. What is the highest truth you are to learn? God is your spirit is forever safely One with that Source,and everything else is Maya."

Let Pola’s great adventure inspire you to continue your Divine Mission of waking up from the dream of Maya.

WILLIAM EVANS, M.D.

Exeter, NH.

SHIVA MAHAVATAR BABAJI by Pola Churchill is one of the most popular books in our Maha Lakshmi Shop at the Ashram. The stories of Babaji are riviting and the book also includes His teachings which are so timely and important in this age. His primary teachings were to be good human beings, live lives of truth, simplicity, love, and to serve others while keeping the name of the Divine in your heart and mind. The book is concise, but full of many important things and worthy of every one’s reading.

RAMLOTI, President of the Haidakhandi Universal Ashram. Editor of new addition I AM HARMONY. By Radhe Shayam (book on Babaji).

Crestone, Colorado.

Pola Churchill’s beautiful book on Babaji is insightful, sincere, and inspiring. A must read for anyone on the spiritual path.

FRANC TAUSCH, Phd. Healing Practitioner at Agape Church /Actor and TV-Host-Beverly Hills, Ca.

A very simple and beautifully written book about Mahavatar Babaji. The dreams and visions stories are inspiring, and the photographs of Babaji transmit a strong energy.

REV. JAMES SIA.

Los Angeles-Ca.

The Book Shiva Mahavatar Babaji radiates the Devotion and Faith of his devotee.

TARA CHANDRA NATH, Babaji devotee.

Sedona, AZ.

Pola’s book has been a popular seller at the ashram gift shop over the years. It is a simple, straightforward introduction to Haidakhan Babaji and His teachings of Truth, Simplicity, Love and Service. Om Namah Shivaya.

MARGE DEVIVO, Former Director of Babaji ashram (Nebraska) and present coordinator of www.babaji.net

There is beautiful light flowing from the writing style and content of this book. It touches the soul.

CLAUDE CHARLBOIS-photographer-Canada.

Many blessings and acknowledgments to:

Cover oil painting by Paolo Polli. Used with permission.

Author photo by Clauss Wickrath.

Cover designed by Joseph C. Cavella.

Logo on first page, Haidakhan Shiv Temple by the Haidakhan Samaj.

All photographs are courtesy of the Haidakhan Universal Ashram. Used with permission.

Quotation from A Course of Miracles, p. 80 is from the preface, published by the Foundation for Inner Peace, Inc., P.O. Box 598, Mill Valley, CA 94942 © 1975. Reprinted with permission.

Quotation from Shedema Goodman, Meeting with Truth at Haidakhan Vishwa Mahadam, self published, © 1986, 27 Tanglewood Drive, Livingstone, NJ 07039, U.S.A. Reprinted by permission.

Quotations from K.L. Jand, Babaji and His Immortal Lilas, self-published in Ludhiana, India. Reprinted by permission.

Quotations from Gunnel Minnet, Babaji, Shri Haidakhan Wale Baba, self-published in Stockholm, Sweden, © 1986. Reprinted by permission.

Quotations from Leonard Orr, Angel of the Lord, self-published, Inspiration University, Route 3, Box 88, Afton, VA 22920, U.S.A., © 1994. Reprinted by permission.

Quotations from Leonard Orr, Physical Immortality, self-published, Inspiration University, © 1980. Reprinted by permission.

Quotation from Sondra Ray, Inner Communion, published by Celestial Arts, P.O. Box 7327, Berkeley, CA 94707, 1990. Reprinted by permission.

Quotation from Sondra Ray, Interludes with the Gods, published by Celestial Arts, © 1992. Reprinted by permission.

Quotations from Radhe Shyam, I Am Harmony, published by The Spanish Creek Press, P.O. Box 9, Crestone, CO 81131, U.S.A., © 1989. Reprinted with permission.

Quotation from Christine Thomas, In Tune with the Soul, published by Chela Publications, 977 Seminole Trail, Suite 308, Charlottesville, VA 22901, U.S.A., © 1992. Reprinted with permission.

Quotation from Swami Nikhilananda, The Upanishads: Abridged Edition. Originally published by George Allen and Unwin Ltd., London, © 1963. First Harper Torchbook edition published by Harper and Row, New York, © 1964; reprinted by permission of Ramakrishna, Vivekenanda Center of New York.

First printing, July, 1996.

Manufactured in the United States of America.

White as camphor, compassion incarnate, essence of the universe,

Garlanded with snakes, ever residing in the lotus of my heart;

To Shiva and the Goddess Mother together, I bow.

I offer light to the Holy Supreme Guru, Lord of Mercy,

Abode of truth, consciousness and eternal bliss.

Thou art without all, but always residing in the heart.

Thy image is full of compassion and so beautiful.

Repetition of thy name dries up the ocean of the world’s misery.

May there be only pure devotion at thy holy feet.

My only desire is to be attached to thy form.

Thy form is of extreme beauty and gentleness,

Beyond form and formlessness,

At the same time, filling the mind with bliss on seeing it.

Gods, men and sages all say Hail, Hail to Haidakhandi.

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