Saraswata-line and Babaji-vesa

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SrI SrI Guru Gaurangau Jayatah

 

Camp: Minsk, BeloRussia

DaNDavats Dear bhakti vikash swami. Jaya Krishna BalarAma!

Please accept my respectful obeisances. All Glories to Sreela PrabhupAda..

 

Thank you for your letter.

 

FYI I was there in chicago july 10, 1975 for my second initiation and I can

testify that he (audolomi) was given babaji at the same initiation on that

date (not as the vedabase dates it so it should be corrected) and that later

on "babaji" went to wash DC and found out he had medically a chance to live,

and so he blooped, hooked up to his former wife (as SDG mentions in his

Prabhupada booklets) and left Iskcon. SDG rightly says there, "babaji should

of died in Mayapur".

 

> Babaji Initiation

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> Chicago, July 11, 1975

> Prabhupada: ...I am accepting this dress following the footprints of other

> acaryas. This dress was accepted by Rupa Gosvami, not ordinary person. The

> six Gosvamis, they accepted. It is called paramahamsa stage, sannyasi's

> highest stage. Sannyasi has got four stages: kuticaka, bahudaka,

> parivrajakacarya and paramahamsa. Kuticaka means when he takes sannyasa,

> he is not accustomed to beg; therefore he makes a small cottage outside

> the village, and the foodstuff comes from the home or somebody sends. In

> this way, when he is little practiced, then he goes door to door, begs,

> bahudaka. Then he is more practiced: parivrajakacarya, he travels all over

> the world. And after that, when he is fully mature, he can chant one place

> Hare Krsna. He has no more business. So this is the last stage of mature

> sannyasa. But because you are thinking that you may not live many years,

> so you simply sit down, go to Mayapur. You have no other business. Simply

> go on chanting Hare Krsna mantra, and whatever little prasadam available,

> you take. And the rest of your life simply engage in chanting. That will

> be success.

> Tamala Krsna: Is he supposed to get a name, Prabhupada?

> Prabhupada: Name is the same.

> Brahmananda: Audolomi dasa Babaji?

> Prabhupada: Ah, Audolomi dasa Babaji. That's all. Hare Krsna. So this is

> the first time in our institution: a babaji. So it is not to be imitated.

> It is the paramahamsa stage when one is very mature in sannyasa life, for

> that, not for ordinary person. Don't request, "Give me sannyasa. Give me

> babaji." Don't do that. It is not a fashion. It is a stage of realization.

> That's all. (end)

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> >>> Ref. VedaBase => Babaji Initiation -- Chicago, July 11, 1975

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> I heard that he was awarded babaji status after being reported as

> terminally ill, but that he recovered and thereafter left Krishna

> consciousness.

 

TridaNDi BhikSu, Bhakti Visrambha MAdhava