Fire of Transformation

My life with Babaji

by Guara Devi

Review by Gunnel Minett

This is a truly remarkable story told by an equally remarkable woman who gave up a potential academic career and conformable western lifestyle in search of a higher meaning in life. Her spiritual quest took her at the age of 26 to India. Before that she was part of the hippie-movement in Italy and full of ideas of how to create a better world. After experimenting with psychedelic drugs she felt drawn to India to search for a deeper meaning in life. She went to India in 1972 with only a one way ticket and minimal amount of money and met a man that came to change her entire life.
He was known as Haidakhan Baba or Babaji and regarded as a mahavatar – a high spiritual master. He was worshipped as an incarnation of Lord Shiva, one of the highest Indian gods (and the guru described in The Autobiography of a Yogi). Despite being an atheist, she immediately found herself strangely drawn to the young man and decided soon to give up everything and become his disciple.
For many years she spent all her time in his tiny ashram deep in the forest. The ashram consisted mainly of a temple and some small and very primitive huts where a small number of people worshipped and lived together. She spent 14 years with him until his death in 1984, as his truly loyal disciple, giving up absolutely everything to work for him, even when it meant living about a year on her own in the forest to practice meditation, or working 20 hours a day in the ashram.
Over the years the ashram grew and more and more people started to arrive there from all corners of the world. And today, nearly twenty years after Babaji’s death the ashram is thriving as never before, with ashrams and devotes all over the world.
Gaura Devi was one of the few people who were close to Babaji for many years and to read her diary from this time really offers a remarkable and rare insight into the life of this extraordinarily advanced spiritual being, regarded as half man / half god. But even for people who find it hard to accept the Indian view on godly incarnations, this is the story of a very remarkable man, different from most others.
I am sure that it does not take a special religious belief or any religious belief at all to find that this book presents a true story that is definitely more incredible than any fiction and that it raises a number of questions and hopefully also provides some answers.

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