Babaji recounts the first time He met His Guru, Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj.
It’s quite difficult, even now… I saw Him; I think that glow, those amazing vibrations which is inexplicable. Only anybody who would have experienced will understand, will know. So that simply attracted. Like, we saw in those days people got simply attracted, they used to go into a big trance and start dancing. Genuinely, they used to be simply immersed in their own selves-like. Closed the eyes and keep dancing and got attracted to Swamiji. Thousands and in lakhs came, people came to Him.
I think probably the same thing when I saw Swamiji. A big car came. He was sitting inside the car with a loin cloth on the back side, and His lips were emanating a small smile-type, then He saw hundreds had gathered and He came out and stood, then people were catching Him from both hands because it was quite difficult for Him to stand or walk when crowds would fall on Him. So, I got a chance. I was close to Him. Suddenly, I caught hold of His left hand, and nobody objected, and I walked with Swamiji to inside the hall. So, from then onwards until He left in the car again after a couple of hours, I was just watching Him, watching Him, watching Him, watching Him. That’s what now also, I just insist – watch the space in between eyebrows, watch, just watch! Repeatedly, I keep telling. So, I just had fallen in love and the ‘I’ had gone. He was sitting there for a couple of hours.
Another important point I would like to tell. After that program of one hour they washed His feet, the hosts, and they chanted some Vishnu Sahasranama and Rudrabisheka, part of all the things. I was watching Swamiji, I hardly heard them. Then people were allowed to come near Him, touch His feet and go through another door. I quietly, quickly sneaked on the right side of Swamiji. His mother was also sitting. Next to her I went and stood there, and just watching Swamiji, and repeating that mantra that had come in my dream of ‘Om Shivaya Shiva Bala Yogendra Parabrahmanaya.’ I was immersed in that and watching Him, watching Him. The person who had taken me there, an old devotee of Swamiji he was bewildered, and he was looking for me where I had disappeared. He thought I might have left bored, or something else has happened, so he was looking for me and he came in the queue in the end, to touch Swamiji’s feet. Then he saw, then he called me, “Come and touch Swamiji’s feet. It is a very rare opportunity.” I said, “I can do that later, you please go out, let me keep standing here.” At that moment, more than touching Swamiji’s feet, I just wanted to watch Him. So that was the beauty. I had fallen in love.
And then again Swamiji stood up after the Darshan was over. First He walked on and I also walked with Him. And He sat inside the car and He just glanced at me once and then He turned His eyes here and there. Others were flocking, falling on Him. I just stood there watching Him, and the car left. So, I was also gone in my mind, in my consciousness, that’s it. And all I could tell my mother, “I want Swamiji.” More than that, I could not explain anything else. After that I never looked back. I never consulted anybody, I had no doubt, I didn’t even ask Swamiji what am I supposed to do, what should I do, all these doubts generations ask – I never asked that. “I want to go to Swamiji, I want Swamiji!” That was all. Whether with Swamiji, whether with my mother, whether for three years I stayed, it was unwavering. So that was how I had just fallen in love with Swamiji.
