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Very disappointing book, about a fake Babaji, October 22, 2010
This "book" was very disappointing, and was so short, at under twelve pages, that calling it a "book" was, to say the least, very inaccurate. Calling it an article would have been much more accurate, but then fewer people would buy it so the author had an incentive to call it a book to get more people to purchase it. How many people would be willing to buy a "book" if it's under a dozen pages? Not many I would think. If the "book" were somehow super, super special it is perhaps conceivable that people would pay for such a short work - but this "book" is far from special. Actually, though, I was glad it was so short seeing that its quality was so low. This book does tell about a person who called himself Babaji, but the Babaji in this book is not the same immortal Babaji who was originally spoken of in the book Autobiography of a Yogi. The Babaji in this "book" ran an ashram in India and spoke repeatedly of the importance of karma yoga and of the importance of doing work to support his temple; he also spoke of doing ones duty lovingly, and with devotion, and of the importance of giving money, working hard, and not being idle so that he could get people to support him and his temple.
"Babaji" in this work also spoke of how it was the duty of those who visited his temple to only work in supporting his temple and that food, clothes and money should not be given to villagers where his temple was located saying that support should only go to his temple and not to any of the nearby villagers because that would make the villagers become greedy. The question which arises in my mind is, "Who now is being greedy, the villagers or "Babaji?" The emphasis he kept on placing on the importance of karma yoga was very transparently self serving. Karma yoga can indeed be extremely powerful, but not when it's used by self-styled gurus as a way of convincing others to give them money or to work for them at menial tasks, without questioning, because they are told it is their karmic "duty."
This work read as an advertisement, but it was very easy to see that the Babaji in this book is not the same immortal yogi which was described in Autobiography of a Yogi - and even the picture of Babaji in this work looked nothing like the Babaji in Yogananda's autobiography. Save your money and don't waste your time with this book. Autobiography of a Yogi, the original 1948 edition, is offered for the kindle book reader, and it's FREE. Read this version, as I have (several times) and you'll know of the real Babaji. Later versions of Yogananda's autobiography were published by SRF, the Self Realization Fellowship, and these later versions have been changed from the original version which Yogananda published so that they'd repeatedly mention and promote SRF many more times than what was Yogananda's intention in his original publication of his autobiography.
Go to the source and read the original 1948 edition of Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, available here on Amazon for free, and you will open yourself up to the real blessings which Yogananda and his line of gurus, including the immortal Babaji, intended to share with the world.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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The Teachings of the Great Guru, November 22, 2008
This review is from: The Teachings Of Babaji (Paperback)
The Teachings of the Great Guru are condensed in this wonderful book.
Enjoy reading and immersing in the Babaji Conscience.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Very good, October 30, 2008
This review is from: The Teachings Of Babaji (Paperback)
This is a small but condense book about the main Teachings of this Master. I also like that they have inserted some of the Teacher pictures!
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