Kaya-Kalpa: Changing The Body Through A Yogic Process

My friends, this is going to be the most interesting, awe-inspiring, thrilling, engaging and longest thread. I advice you to read this thread totally without even skipping a word, with total concentration. This text presents an incident between Mahavtar Babaji and his disciple Baba.

One evening, Baba was sitting outside, gazing at the Bharat Court Hill, when Babaji arrived from the forest side. Baba received him with Pranam (bowing). Then both went into the holy hut (the temple of Silence), where Baba arranged the cave for Babaji. Babaji entered the cave. The next morning, Baba prepared suji (with semolina, sugar and milk) and offered it to Babaji. His body is beyond the rules of nature and, as such, does not need food; yet Baba offered it as he learned to do so from Mataji. Babaji accepted it kindly.

The following evening, Babaji proposed to move.(Here Mahavtar Babaji is called as Mahamuni Babaji or Babaji or MB)

Mahamuni Babaji (MB): I would like to take you somewhere now. Narayan, you will accompany me.

Baba (B): Now this body understands why you call it Narayana before.

MB: You will see some scenes of Narayana (Baba’s previous life) there.

B: It would be very interesting.

MB: Well, let us go!

Babaji came out of the hut; Baba locked the hut and left a message for Gobinda Singha to look after the hut.

Babaji created a balloon out of the sky using a yogic Process.

MB: Close your eyes, and concentrate between the eyebrows.

Baba closed his eyes and concentrated between the eyebrows. Babaji took Baba in his arms, and Baba had the feeling as if his body levitated from the ground, and they were moving forward in the sky while his legs hung limply. After some time, they landed from clairportation (Atibahik), airborne system.

B: Babaji! It seems that we are in Bengal. Is it not so?

MB: Yes, we are. Look, here is a hermitage where you lived with an old swami.

B: It seems we are clairported about thirteen hundred miles. What is the name of this place, Babaji?

MB: It is Sanyasgar (place of Sanyasi, or Swami, or renunciates).

SANYASGAR
where Babaji made Kaya-Kalpa (changed his body)

MB: It is Sanyasgar (place of Sanyasi, or Swami, or renunciates).

B: Where does the old swami live?

MB: Let us go see him.

We entered a room, where the bulky old swami (about seventy-five years old) was sitting, and his young student was attending him.

MB: Do you recognize this young student?

B: No.

Mahamuni Babaji touched the top of Baba’s head, and Baba remembered his previous life. The young student, Narayana, was from Baba’s previous life.

B: This is the life of this body. Is it not?

MB: Yes, this is your previous life. Look at this old swami. He will leave his body.

B: What is the name of this swami?

MB: He does not use any name.

B: By what name do people or his disciples call him?

MB: Gobinda Bhagavan, Maheswar Baba (Maheswarananda), Sadhu Baba, Babaji, etc.

B: How will the old swami leave the body?

MB: He will perform Kaya-Kalpa.

B: What is Kaya-Kalpa?

MB: It is changing the body through a yogic Process. Watch him.

The old swami informed his young student, Narayana, that he was going to leave the body.

Narayana prayed for one word (promise) that the old swami would give him a darsan (meeting) when Narayana would leave his body.

The old swami promised and asked for some relevant articles (Naibidya) for ritual worship.

The old swami exhaled loudly and a kind of white, threadlike material began coming out of his mouth. He caught it by his hand and drew it out. He cut it into three pieces. After pausing to perform ritual worship (Homa or Jajna), he held one piece in his hand, chanted some hymns and Mantras, and dropped it in the Fire (of the Homa or Jajna).

Then he took the second piece of the threadlike breath, chanted hymns and Mantras and placed it into the Fire.

Finally, he took the third piece and followed the same routine, but this time he did not put it in the Fire but simply carried it near the Fire and ate it.

After a while, the old swami’s belly began to swell. It got bigger and bigger until it burst.

A bright, young body, radiant in character, came out from the belly of the old swami. The bright, radiant young body took the dead body of the old swami and threw it into the Fire of the ceremony (Homa), and left the place.

It was very surprising for Baba to see that the body, which came out from the old swami’s belly, and Babaji’s body, which was standing beside Baba, looked identical.

It became clear that the old swami was Babaji, and that the body, which he changed through the yogic Process Kaya-Kalpa, was his present body: young, bright and radiant. As it was made through a yogic Process, it remained free from the laws of nature.

B: Babaji! The old, changed body of the swami was identical with yours. Would you kindly comment on this?

Babaji looked into Baba’s eyes and smiled gently.

B: It means you were in Bengal. Would you kindly tell me where that old swami’s body was born?

Babaji remained silent. He refused to comment.

The place is called Sanyasgar, but also Gobinda Nagar, possibly for the old swami, as he was called Gobinda Bhagavan. There is a Gobinda temple there. It may have been built in his memory. At present there is a hermitage near Gobinda Nagar at Sanyasgar.

Once Babaji wanted to leave the body but at the request of his sister, Mataji, he agreed to keep it for indefinite period of time.