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Retrato de Babaji de Autobiografia de um Iogue

Babaji é um mestre não ascenso dos Himalaias. Ele tornou-se conhecido no Ocidente por meio dos escritos de Paramahansa Yogananda. Babaji renunciou à ascensão, devido ao seu ideal de bodhisattva, o que significa que ele deseja permanecer na Terra até todos terem conseguido a sua liberdade. Ele vive num corpo de carne e osso, numa gruta nos Himalaias, mas pode desmaterializar esse corpo quando quiser e deslocar-se e aos seus seguidores a qualquer parte do mundo.

A Fraternidade Não Ascensa dos Himalaias

Babaji integra a Grande Fraternidade Branca e pertence à linhagem da Fraternidade Não Ascensa dos Himalaias. O seu nome significa “pai venerado”. O Poderoso Vitória descreve assim o serviço prestado pelos mestres não ascensos:

São almas não ascensas de semblante magnificente que têm permanecido com as evoluções da Terra, na qualidade de sábios. Ficaram para manter a chama que conforta a vida no nível etérico. Eles representam a consciência da ascensão, embora não tenham ascendido. Pode-se dizer que alcançaram o plano do samadhi, da comunhão eterna com a luz da Mãe, e dessa comunhão extraem até a luz dos planos nirvânicos, ancorando-a aqui embaixo. Eles são a perpetuação do Verbo. Estão aqui para enobrecer a raça.

Descrições do mestre

Segundo Yogananda, Babaji nunca revelou a sua origem familiar e o local ou data do seu nascimento. Ele fala geralmente em hindu, mas também conversa facilmente em qualquer língua. Yogananda diz:

The deathless guru bears no mark of age on his body; he appears to be a youth of not more than twenty-five. Fair-skinned, of medium build and height, Babaji’s beautiful, strong body radiates a perceptible glow. His eyes are dark, calm, and tender; his long, lustrous hair is copper-colored.... He has lived for many centuries amid the Himalayan snows.

Yogananda’s Sanskrit tutor was a disciple of Babaji who had spent time with the master in the Himalayas. He said of Babaji, “The peerless master moves with his group from place to place in the mountains.... Babaji can be seen or recognized by others only when he so desires. He is known to have appeared in many slightly different forms to various devotees—sometimes with beard and moustache and sometimes without them. His undecayable body requires no food; the master, therefore, seldom eats.”

Yogananda relates the following story about the power of a guru’s intercession:

Babaji’s disciples were sitting one night around a huge fire that was blazing for a sacred Vedic ceremony. The guru suddenly seized a burning brand and lightly struck the bare shoulder of a chela who was close to the fire.

“Sir, how cruel!” Lahiri Mahasaya, who was present, made this remonstrance.

“Would you rather have seen him burned to ashes before your eyes, according to the decree of his past karma?”

With these words Babaji placed his healing hand on the chela’s disfigured shoulder. “I have freed you tonight from painful death. The karmic law has been satisfied through your slight suffering by fire.”

His mission today

During a dictation in 1988, Surya explained that Babaji was present, “floating in the lotus posture, beaming intense and fiery love. Remaining at the interval and the nexus between the crystal spheres of the Spirit-Matter Cosmos, this unascended master of the Himalayas does come to demonstrate to you what is the victory of the Mother flame, how ascension’s flame as a buoyant fount of light may become the lotus pad.”

Babaji speaks on behalf of the Brotherhood of the Himalayas, urging his students to take up the path of the violet flame. He also asks us to find the students trapped in the false paths and false teachings of India. Babaji tells his students to not remove themselves into nirvana but to “get over the desire to be the removed one, set apart and in meditation and in unreality when there is a victory to be won and a battle to enter.”

He says:

I AM Babaji! I choose to speak by the authority of the Darjeeling Council on behalf of the unascended brotherhood of the Himalayas. For we come forth and we come to sponsor now true chelas of the Path who will wear the mantle of the ascension, white and bright.

I come in the person of Father as I am called. I come to pierce and penetrate the veil. I come to expose those false ones who have misrepresented us. They are named and their names hang with the sword of Damocles that is upon their head. I say, Let them be exposed! For we will have the victory of all chelas in the dispensation of the Great White Brotherhood....

Test me by my vibration! Ask me and I will come to your life! Don’t you dare deny me or my messenger until you have demanded proof and more proof! For I will give it! I will come! And I will growl with Himalaya until you know that the God Star Sirius is my home also. And I am with the legions of the mighty Blue Eagle and I am here. And I will not take “no” for an answer! If you are of the light, you may first fight with Babaji. And when I have fought and won, I will teach you how to defeat the demons.

So I have come. I have broken the silence. And all of the masters of the Himalayas gather with me....

Now you who hear me: Go find those souls trapped in the false paths of the false gurus of India! And let them hear my message; let them hear my Word! Do not fear to show them the face of the messenger or the sound of my voice. Then let them choose. And do not leave them without the light and sign of Astrea.

I AM Babaji. I AM here because I AM not anywhere else, but everywhere.

See also

Yogananda

Sources

Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Masters and Their Retreats, s.v. “Babaji.”