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In the Kumaon foothills of the Indian Himalayas, the

birthplace or home of India's great saints of the past
and present, there resided Shri Haidakhan Wale
Baba (also spelled Herakhan Babaji). To those who
asked, Haidakhan Baba acknowledged that He was
the Shiva Mahavatar Babaji, known to many
thousands in the West through Paramahansa
Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi. A mahavatar
is a human manifestation of God not born of woman.

In 1970 Shri Babaji (Shri means holy or revered; Baba is a term used for a
renunciate, or saint, or father) appeared in a cave, that has been holy for
thousands of years, at the foot of the Kumaon Mount Kailash, across the sacred
river Gautama Ganga opposite a remote village called Haidakhan. He had no
known parents or family. He appeared as a youth of 18 or 20, yet he displayed
great wisdom and divine powers from the start. The Haidakhan villagers saw him
as an old man with a long white beard, as a young man with a long beard, as a
beautiful young man with no beard. Two men who spoke to him at the same time
described him di!erently. He was seen at di!erent places at the same time. He
knew the scriptures, yet there is no evidence of his having been educated. He ate
almost nothing for months yet his energy was boundless. In September 1970, he
climbed to the top of Mount Kailash, seated himself in yogic fashion at the small
temple there without leaving his seat for 45 days and nights, mediating most of the
time, talking occasionally, and started teaching the message he has brought to the
world.

His coming had been foretold, both by ancient scriptures and by the preachings
and prophesies of a twentieth century saint called Mahendra Baba. As a child,
Mahendra Baba was healed by a vision of Babaji and the Divine Mother. He saw
Babaji again on a birthday, when Babaji appeared to him and gave him candy.
When he graduated from high school, Mahendra Baba met Babaji, in one of his
previous forms, and was taught yogic knowledge by Babaji for six days and nights.
When Babaji left him, Mahendra Baba renounced the world and went searching for
his guru -- walking through the Himalayas.

Mahendra Baba then spent years at a temple in the Indian

state of Gujarat and developed a reputation as a great
saint. Only after 25 years was he led back to the Kumaon
hills where Babaji appeared to him again, in a locked room
in a remote mountain ashram. After this appearance of
Babaji in the flesh, Mahendra Baba began his mission of
preparing for Shri Babaji's return to the world in human
form.

For many years Mahendra Baba went around India preaching that Babaji would
return to transform the world. He described what Babaji would look like, including
the scars on his right leg and left arm. He said that Babaji would come in 1970.
Mahendra Baba restored old ashrams and temples, built new ones, and prepared
the worship service now used by Babaji's devotees.

Mahendra Baba told his followers that Shri Babaji has been a divine presence on
earth since man first learned about religion. Babaji has taught gurus and religious
teachers throughout man's history, and eras, He has appeared to teach people,
manifesting a body for each appearance, rather than coming by human birth.

There are books in Hindi, written about the previous

manifestation of Haidakhan Baba, which lasted from about
1800 to 1922. He appeared to villagers not far from
Haidakhan out of a ball of light, and in 1922 before a handful
of followers, he disappeared in to a ball of light. There are
many recorded miracles: healing people, raising the dead,
being in several places at the same time, feeding multitudes
from a small portion of food.

But mostly people flocked to Babaji because they experienced him as a divine
loving Being far above the human level. Mountain villagers, educated and
uneducated Westerners, English bureaucrats and Indian intelligentsia, people of all
religions came to him. There are still people, in Haidakhan and elsewhere in India,
 who remember Old Haidakhan Baba and acknowledge this manifestation as the
same Being. There are evidences of earlier manifestations of Babaji. Tibetan
monks came to Shri Babaji in 1972 and hailed him as Lama Baba, who had lived in
Tibet about 500 years ago. There are stories of his appearance in Nepal, as well as
India and Tibet. Most of Shri Babaji's followers experience and worship him as a
true ageless manifestation of God. The big and little miracles He performed and
still perform daily in the lives of His followers, His reading of and responding to
their inner thoughts before they are uttered, His healing, His guidance, His
teachings were and are at a level beyond even advanced human ability. Most of
His miracles occur in the minds, hearts and lives of the followers – miracles of
understanding, responses to unspoken thoughts, guidance, teachings, and support
when and as needed, whether in Haidakhan or far away. Shri Babaji said that
humanity is in great danger. He prophesied widespread physical destruction and
death. He said our salvation is to worship God and repeat God's Name (particularly,
Om Namah Shivaya), and that we will create a new, loving, humanitarian society of
people who are focused on God. Babaji said to build ashrams around the world
where people could go for spiritual nourishment.

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