Neem Karoli Baba

That he would do later also.

And he was living in sort of a… bunker below and I just watched that movie on Nim Karoli Baba and I was reminded because he would live, go down in the bunker and Sri Aurobindo would be living like that and one day his wife went down.

She didn't know that there is a political refugee out there.

So she went to clean and as he saw Sri Aurobindo, his eyes were open.

I was used to being, um, independent, and now I was dependent.

Paul Gorman and I wrote a book, How Can I Help? And now I'd write the book, How Can You Help Me? And I suffered, I suffered spiritually because I followed the sadhana of Guru Kripa, the Guru's grace, and I felt myself having my guru, Neem Karoli Baba, I felt graceful.

Ever since I known, known him, my, my life graced.

So the stroke was spiritually disappointing because if I was under his grace, the stroke... [tsking] And I spent the first month or so in the hospital.

Maharaji's grace, the stroke.

Grace, stroke.

Grace.

You know, I'd have little bits of grace all...

The timing was right and everything sort of, at least from my end, felt like it just kind of fell into place.

But for me, the whole purpose of this trip was to visit the ashram of Neem Karoli Baba in Kanchita.

I think it's funny for me, like in hindsight, it's always easy to watch the series of events that lead up to an experience.

And like in the moment to think you're doing everything and then in hindsight to see, oh, everything was done for me.

One in the life of Nimka Roli Baba, another in the life of, if you read Paramahansa Yogananda's biography.

Of course, they are known as bi-location, tri-location, multiple location, where now the movie is coming, Hanuman on Hanumanansh, which is about Neem Karoli Baba, who was known, if you read his life, who could be present in the morning in his ashram and in the evening he would be present in his home.

People would know that, you know, he is going there and the wife didn't know that basically he is there and it was literally like a bilocation.

He would go in his trance and move there.

actually so we robbed him

Maharaji.

Maharaji, yeah.

So their terms of... a being that was living completely in reality.

I mean, that's absolutely in reality.

yeah

and non-referential love or objectifying love

exactly and then within all of that was you'd look you know he not a lot would he just capture your gaze because you know the amount of energy that was involved was was more than our little guys there 20 year olds guys could take guys and girls but empty And Ram Dass, once recently, I tell this story a million times, he got into talking about Maharaji and he got just into that love place of just completely being overwhelmed in the moment by it.

Bhaj lo ji hanuman.

Shri guru charan saroj raj, nij manu mukar sudhar.

Karnaraghubar mamal jisu, jo dahaku phalachar.

Budhi hin tanu janike, sumiram pavan kuma siara.

Ganesh- Radharani tried to worship Ganesh, praying for meeting of Krishna.

And Ganeshti said, "Baba, I could- how can I accept your worship?" She bathed, Siddha Ashram.

She took white flowers.

She's worshiping Ganesh.

And Ganeshti is like, "How can I accept your supreme Shakti, your purity?" He said, "Brahman comes from your toenails." He said, "Oh, Radhe, the Brahmajyoti, effulgence of Godhead, is coming from the tip of your toenails.

Baba, I am your baccha.

You are Swarup Shakti." Radharani is very shy, but the point here is, you know, she is, uh...

I lost the track of what I was saying before that.