Mahavatar babaji lahiri mahasaya photo
Lahiri mahasaya photo...
Mahavatar babaji lahiri mahasaya photo
Mahavatar Babaji
Hindu Yogi
Mahavatar Babaji (IAST: Mahāvatāra Bābājī; lit. 'Great Avatar(Revered) Father') is the Himalayan yogi and guru who taught Kriya Yoga to Lahiri Mahasaya (1828–1895).[2][3][a] Babaji first became recognized through the writings of Paramahansa Yogananda, who devoted a chapter of his Autobiography of a Yogi to Babaji and founded Self-Realization Fellowship, a modern yoga movement that Babaji is associated with.[3] The cave where Babaji met Lahiri Mahasaya, located near Ranikhet, is now a tourist attraction and place of pilgrimage in India.[4]: 170
In popular culture
Mahavatar Babaji was on the cover of The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.[5][1][6] He can also be seen on the cover of George Harrison's 1974 album Dark Horse. Songwriter Roger Hodgson of English rock band Supertramp composed a song called "Babaji" in