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Don Baba with Rajarshi Raghabananda at Banabira Ashram
In loving memory of Kriya Yoga Master Brahmarshi Dr. Raghabananda Nayak.
Many of you are sincere spiritual seekers and want to have a deeper experience of your own "divine self".
In this divine quest, we seek outside our...
Rajarshi Raghabananda at Banabira Kriya Yoga Ashram
During my first visit to Hariharananda Mission Banabira Ashram, while we were having a "chai tea" break, Rajarshi Raghabanandaji shared a very personal experience about being with Baba Hariharananda at Karar Ashram, Puri, India.
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Swami Hariharananda Giri in Karar Ashram
For twenty years, I heard Baba Hariharananda say “Nirvikalpa Samadhi" is the Certificate once needs, to be able to say one is a "Master of Kriya Yoga".
This means one can enter and exit at will, the "pulselessness-breathlessness...
Original painting of Mahavatar Babaji by Sananda Lal Ghosh
"I saw Babaji in Central Park." a New York Kriyaban told me excitedly, after entering the Sunday morning meditation class at Chuck's gallery.
"Just before coming to class I saw him in the park"
I asked him,...
"Love, Love, Love."
"You only want to hear me say one word: 'Love'."
Baba Hariharananda answered my phone call from his room in his residence, in sunny Homestead, Florida, USA.
"Don Baba, You only want to hear me say one word, 'Love', is it not true?"
Yes, it was...
Baba Hariharananda blessings
The first time I was blessed to get a glimpse of what type of Master, Baba Hariharananda Giri was, was shortly after I had received Kriya Yoga initiation from him in New York City in 1981.
At the end of one of the Kriya Yoga meditation class, in...
Baba Hariharananda NYC photo
One day, I took the overnight Amtrak train to Washington, DC to return with Baba Hariharananda the next day by train to New York City.
It was a half day journey and for him to travel alone in his advanced age, would have been challenging, so he...
Baba Hariharananda in Karar Ashram Garden, Puri, India
One day at Karar Ashram, the resident Brahmachari's came to Baba and told him:
"tomorrow we want sweets the whole day or we are leaving!"
Robinarayan (Baba) was the "Bramachari-in-charge" of the ashram at...
Peace, Bliss, Joy.
Just before sunrise, on the morning of December 3, 2002, Baba came to me in a dream.
He was sitting up on the bed, talking to me in Bengali or Hindi, as I sat on the floor at the side of the bed.
I could not understand what he was saying.
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Swami Hariharananda -Shambhavi Mudra
Baba Hariharananda often told the story about Arjuna's archery lesson.
The Five Pandava brothers were with their archery teacher Dronacharya.
The teacher ask the first brother what do you see?
'I see a tree in the field, with...
Anjali Ma with Baba Hariharananda
My first experience meditating with Anjali Ma from Hariharananda Kriya Yog Kolkata Dhyan Kendra, was during my first meditation class in Kolkata in 2010.
It was a small group of about 30 Kriyabans in a small room in Kolkata.
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Samadhi Master Baba Hariharananda
"Many are licking the outside of the coconut, telling how sweet the fruit tastes, having never actually tasted the fruit inside", a favorite saying of Baba Hariharananda's.
It is a very rare state of spiritual depth and only a few have mastered...
Baba Hariharananda
Starting at the age of 67, Baba Hariharananda started traveling all over the world, teaching the Kriya Yoga techniques and giving Kriya Yoga initiation to sincere seekers from all walks of life.
When Baba established his final residence in...
Swami Hariharananda Giri at Felix's NYC Apartment (photo by don baba)
The Yogis describe "Samadhi" as an "infinite ocean of peace, an infinite ocean of bliss, an infinite ocean of joy" beyond the world of the five senses, which can only be perceived and merged with in deep...
Yogacharya Don Baba with Baba Hariharananda, Homestead, Florida
In 1996, at Rafi's NYC apartment in Tribeca, a small group was sitting with Baba and myself.
To my left, facing Baba Hariharananda, were two male disciples, who each had family with children, and to my...
Baba Hariharananda New York City USA
In the late 1990's two sanyasi's came to Homestead, Florida, USA ashram to visit Baba Hariharananda.
Baba told them, when they arrived in Homestead to see him:
"If you don't go to New York City, your trip to USA is...
Baba Hariharananda was a scientist.
"Kriya Yoga technique is the scientific and mathematical way of changing the material body consciousness into Cosmic Consciousness"
He never stopped his inner exploration of Self-realization thru the practice of Kriya...
My favorite photo of Baba Hariharananda taken by don baba
One day in New York City, a few years after I became a Kriyaban, Baba Hariharananda asked me to find a pen for him.
This pen was a unique pen, as it had four different colored inks and it would let you choose one...
Nirvikalpa Samadhi Master Swami Hariharananda Giri
"Talk about Nirvikalpa Samadhi Baba"
One of the most powerful moments I experienced being in the presence of Baba Hariharananda was during his 95th birthday celebration at his ashram in Homestead, Florida.
It was his...
Swami Hariharananda and Don early 1980's at Chuck's Gallery NYC
God means different things to different people.
Baba Hariharananda would often say:
"Watch the 'Marvelous Power of God', which is formless, breathing and performing action."
Raghabanandaji...
