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The Voice of Babaji A Trilogy on Kriya Yoga

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"The Voice of Babaji A Trilogy on Kriya Yoga" is 3 books in one. Book 1 is "Mysticism Unlocked", book 2 is "Babaji's Masterkey to All Ills" and book 3 is "Babaji's Death of Death". Each book has a detailed introduction on how the author (V.T. Neelakantan) struggled to bring these writings to print with the help of Babaji. His dialogs with the immortal Master shows the readers that Babaji is not a myth but a great soul. Babaji is also mentioned in the "Autobiography of a Yogi" (by Paramahansa Yogananda).

This compilation also tells the reader the reasons for the formation of another kriya organization (Babaji's Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas) in addition to the already existing Self-Realization Fellowship. This Order acts as a complement to SRF and it is NOT a rival organization. It also shows us that Babaji has no wish for any organization to claim a monopoly over His form and name.

This work is written after the publication of "Autobiography of a Yogi" and after Yogananda's Mahasamadhi.(a yogi's conscious exist from his physical body) Thus Babaji has decided to reveal more details about his birth and life to the general public after his disciple's exit from this world. Even Yogananda was unable to disclose when his Paramguru was born to the general public. Here Babaji talks about his early life and place of birth.

Lastly, all SRF members should read this book if they desire to know more about their paramguru. This work is truly a classic and it is written in a literary style.

This books is recommended for people attracted to Babaji. By the way, I have at home copies of the three Indian editions included in this book - the review of Patricia makes no sense. You can even see that Amazon offers the original book - it was published in India (but Patricia says "it was never published by Ramaiah"???). Yes, use discernment.

This book was supposedly transmitted by the immortal Babaji to the authors, Ramaiah and Neelakantan. Ramaiah is no longer alive and I suspect that Neelakantan has also died by this time. I was a student of S.A.A. Ramaiah back in 1975-1982. I was close friends with one of his "advanced" students who was called Avvai. She traveled with S.A.A. Ramaiah to India many times. She showed me a rough draft of said book -- it was never published by Ramaiah. She told me that when she was in India she learned that the co-author, V. T. Neelakantan, had confessed that he and Ramaiah had concocted the book themselves and that it was not transmitted to them by Babaji. Yogi Ramaiah insisted it was. I don't know which is true. I am just passing this info along for the reader's discernment.

The images in the book are very few and extremely amateurish in quality and appearance. Whether these are claiming to be genuine photos or the artists impressions is unclear from the accompanying captions. The text reads in a rather patronising manner and says nothing new. It would be a surprise to this reader if the book was at all genuine.

This book did not inspire me and I did not feel Babaji "speaking".
Patricia may be right.