Mahavatar Babaji
Mahavatar Babaji is a legendary immortal yogi and guru, who is said to be living in the Himalayas. He is said to have taught multiple revered historic yogis, including Lahiri Mahasaya (1828–1895). Babaji first became recognised 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.
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":原文："We have to return again and again to the school of life until all lessons have been learned. So long as we leave earth at death with desires unfulfilled, we have to come back again in order to fu…"
"For the faults of the many, judge not the whole. Everything on earth is of mixed character, like a mingling of sand and sugar. Be like the wise ant which seizes only the sugar, and leaves the sand unt…"
"原文：I am washing the feet of this renunciate, and then I shall clean his cooking utensils.' 'By serving wise and ignorant sadhus, I am learning the greatest of virtues, pleasing to God above all others…"
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