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Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

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This book is a marvelous collection of anecdotes and teaching stories from the devotees of Neem Karoli Baba, a true "Avadhoot" (one who has "shaken off" the world, to exist as a wandering vessel of God) of the Hindu tradition, but who transcended all traditional spiritual paths. He was impossible to classify or pin down. Maharaji, as he was lovingly called, would simply wander into a village and stay awhile, while people offered fruits and sat at his feet, then he would abruptly disappear into the jungle. He would laugh, scold, hug, talk briefly, or just sit. Miracles occurred often in his presence. Maharaji's only teachings seemed to be love, serve and see God in everything. No one could keep him in one place, not even police or jail cells. When the time came to leave a place, he just left. He was simply an old man in a plaid blanket, full of humor and love, who shone the Light of Eternal Consciousness.

What can I say, when you read the stories of Maharajji, it moves you on the deepest of levels. Grace and love are the messages of this great saint. I cried and and laughed, and am still laughing 7 years later. He is a wonderful teacher, and will play with you if you get to know him. Blessings.

I thought this book was really interesting. I didn't know a lot about Neem Karoli Baba before I read this - now I wish I was old enough to have traveled to India and met him myself. The book is broken up in individual stories so it's easy to read a little at a time ( a great boon to anyone who is busy!)

Powerfully told from the perspective of numerous students and devotees. Shows the many sides of this amazing teacher.

Of the greatest spiritual teachers in living memory, Neemkaroli Baba was the essential teacher of unconditional love. This love and the deep devotion it inspired shines through all the short stories of this book, all gems of simplicity, immense kindness and of an abolute mastery of life.
If you want to be inspired by this great soul and connect with your own purity of heart, then this book is for you. Today, as in the past, Maharaji touches many directly in profound and life-changing ways. This book has been a vehicle to allow many people to make this connection.

This collection of anecdotes and remembrances by devotees captures and radiates the wisdom, love, and sublimely joyous blessings of a Saint.
Just open it where you will and darshan from this extraordinary being will shower your heart and mind. This is one of the great, great books in the spiritual literature.
Robert Leverant

What life is like around a God-Realized Being: miraculous, transformative, sublime, awesome, humbling, not always understandable, and worth every minute of it...and then some.

"Miracle of Love" truly is a miraculous book. To read its pages is to experience the presence of Neem Karoli Baba.
My thanks to Baba for his blessings, and my personal thanks to Ram Dass for collecting, writing and editing this treasure. "Miracle of Love" served as an inspiration for writing "Divine Play, the Silent Teaching of Shivabalayogi", as well as "Swamiji's Treasure, the God Realization & Experiences of Shivabalayogi."

Neem Karoli Baba has been my guide since I first began reading the books of Ram Dass, starting with Be Here Now. He had been comming to me in dreams for many years, unrecognized,(once on a speeding green and white dirt bike, blanket flapping, bursting through a small room I was trapped in,grinning at me with great pleasure in the ride, showing/leading the way out...) Then I "discovered" the Neem Karoli Baba Ashram and Hanuman Murti in Taos, New Mexico (a mere 5 hour drive). What a shock of recognition that that funny,playful, powerful Guide was my Guru. He led me to my living teachers and still was there when I was with them. He brought me to many spiritual spaces, and pushed me into Sufism/Islam. I feel him in and around me when I remember him. He stated: "I am here and I am in America. Whoever remembers me, I go to." He is Alive, at the very least in this collection of stories. If you sincerely ask for his help, he will come..."God will give you everything you need for your spiritual development." These stories are choked with the sweetness of the Love of the teller, and reflect the sweet Love of that endearing Rascal, Neem Karoli Baba. RAMRAMRAM

I purchased this book about 20 years ago and have read every page of this book ever since many, many times. I feel like I know maharaji and he knows me. I feel like he is responsible for little miracles in my life on a regular basis. This book is usually close at hand- I may put it down for a few months, but there it is back again and I am so grateful that maharaji is there to save me, help me, protect me. I traveled to India in 1978 and took sannyas with another guru then and am still connected by heart with that master, but maharaji is something so special anyway. I will typically read from this book 8 or 10 times a week and this is after 20 years! I would like to meet Ram Dass too because I feel like I know him from the book. It has a lot of Ram Dass in it. I would also like to visit the temples in India and feel the vibe of maharaji, that would be so sweet. Hope you get to know him too.