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Date Posted: 06:10:18 10/23/05 Sun
Author: H - 27 Aug 2005
Subject: Re: Babaji Truth or Myth?
In reply to: H - 27 Aug 2005 's message, "Re: Babaji Truth or Myth?" on 06:09:15 10/23/05 Sun

There are other discrepancies too. Purana Purusha, as far as I can recall, emphasizes that the sadhu was NOT a handsome young man.

Another fact is that in the 19th century Benares was the leading center of yogic instruction. Everything that Lahiri Mahasaya taught he probably could have learned there. He had contact with yogic people and practiced some yoga before he met the sadhu, and he was apparently one of the most educated men of those days in that area.

On the other hand, Purana Purusha is not always reliable. Ashoke tries to construe a story in which Sai Baba of Shirdi was a disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya. To me this seems pointless; probably it goes back to Satya Charan who in the foreword claims that Lahiri Mahasaya was the only enlightened yogi in modern times and all others since the time of Kabir merely posers. I am glad that Ashoke - who at least has retained common sense and a minimum of respect for spiritual teachers outside the Lahiri family - wrote the book and not Satya Charan, as was originally intended.

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