made this amateur video a few years ago with a video freeware, sampling different images, mostly from an excerpt from the one and only documentary film on Tat Wale Baba (made by an italian director whose name is unhappily unknown to me) and sequences provided by Dr Ram Kumar whom I thank, plus other licence free resources, included a discourse of Tat Wale Baba at Mahesh Yogi Ashram. The excerpt of the itialian documentary can be seen here in YouTube: • Tat Wale Baba, Rishikesh
The mantra "mukto'ham" is a loop I made from a mantra session recorded live in Ellora Caves by C. Hinze.
Tat Wale Baba was born in July 24, 1890 in Punjab, India. He seems to be around 40 years old in the video, but is actually 82. Babaji entered Mahāsamādhi in 1974, but as he once said to a spiritual aspirant:
« That which is unborn, eternal, we can't talk about it in terms of time. In terms of time the Self can't be talked. »
Tat Wale Baba was famous in Hrishikesh and all over India. He was known as the “naked saint” or “the wise man of the mountains”. Tat Wale was a nickname meaning “one who wears jute”. Baba means “father”.
As an eremitic sage, he gave regular audiences to visitors for a short time but rarely left his humble Ashram. Spiritual aspirants came to get advices or simply meditate in his presence and get his blessing. Even today, many pilgrims visit his cave.
When he was still a brahmacārī full-time involved in the practive of rāja yoga, my Guru Pūjya Śrī Svāmī Yogānanda Sarasvatī spent times with Babaji in Hrishikesh in 1969.
Regards from France,
Kaviraj
The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism first revealed the involvement of the highly accomplished enlightened being, Tat Wale Baba, in His own life when unveiling the Superconscious Mutation Process which He underwent at around the age 12-13. Though many narratives circulating the internet claim he was murdered in the 1970's, the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism has declared that Tat Wale Baba is in fact alive and that he faked his death when he had no option against the threats which he faced against his life. SPH was initiated by Tat Wale Baba in around 1989, when His gurus made Him undergo the Superconscious Mutation Process for Celibacy.