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Originally posted by eputkonen

Gurusfeet is trying to build such a database. Take a look, a bunch of gurus are listed.

http://www.gurusfeet.com/homepage

~ Eric Putkonen

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Originally posted by emc


When people mention Babaji... who do they mean? I looked at Wikipedia and found these:

- Ananta Das Babaji, a leading religious figure in the contemporary -Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition.
- Gaurakisora dasa Babaji, an influential Vaishnava guru from the Gaudiya tradition.
- Haidakhan Babaji, a teacher who appeared in northern India and taught publicly from 1970–1984.
- Hariakhan Baba, appeared in many places in northern India near the Himalayas between 1861 and 1924.
- Jagannatha dasa Babaji, an acharya from the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition.
- Mahavatar Babaji, referred to by Paramahansa Yogananda in his best-selling Autobiography of a Yogi.


I have read a book about Haidakhan Babaji, so that's "Babaji" to me... Who do you mean when you talk about Babaji? Which one of these is the most wellknown?

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Originally posted by thimus

I bought on eBay the double DVD of the evening talks of
S.N.Goenka during a 10 day course of Vipassana.
Eckhart Tolle during his talks on retraits explains things so
clearly, and a good laugh is allways at hand. But this S.N.Goenka is as good ! ! ! Of course he has an Indian-Burmese accent but that is allright.
By the way : is there someone who followed this 10-day course of vipassana?

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Originally posted by emc

I have noticed I lack fundamental knowledge of which gurus/sages/great beings that are so wellknown that you just must have heard of them! Would you help me get some basic education here and join in on some namedropping? New names pop up all the time and a lot of people seem to know about them... and I don't! I'll write those I have at least heard of here, but please, fill in the list and please, mention if they are dead or not! And please, write all the name variations that exist! If you feel like it!

(I use # = dead, * = born)

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj - #1981
- Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi - #1950
- Swami Vivekananda - #1902
- Osho/Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh - # 1990
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - #2008
- Swami Janakananda - *1939
- Swami Satyananda Saraswati - *1923
- Swami Sivananda Saraswati - #1968
- Jiddu Krishnamurti - #1986
- Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa - #1886
- Babaji... but see below...

And in the 'western' corner we find:

- Byron Katie - *1942
- Eckhart Tolle - *1948
- Don Miguel Ángel Ruiz - *1952
- Barry Long - #2003
- Adyashanti - * ??
- Ram Dass/Baba Ram Dass - *1931


When people mention Babaji... who do they mean? I looked at Wikipedia and found these:

- Ananta Das Babaji, a leading religious figure in the contemporary -Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition.
- Gaurakisora dasa Babaji, an influential Vaishnava guru from the Gaudiya tradition.
- Haidakhan Babaji, a teacher who appeared in northern India and taught publicly from 1970–1984.
- Hariakhan Baba, appeared in many places in northern India near the Himalayas between 1861 and 1924.
- Jagannatha dasa Babaji, an acharya from the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition.
- Mahavatar Babaji, referred to by Paramahansa Yogananda in his best-selling Autobiography of a Yogi.


I have read a book about Haidakhan Babaji, so that's "Babaji" to me... Who do you mean when you talk about Babaji? Which one of these is the most wellknown?

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Dear emc,
You don't need any of them. You are as great as all of them combined. We all are. It's a case of duality to set up some list, many of the currently living ones are self appointed teachers. Adyashanti, Tolle and Bernie Prior, for example, come to mind:self appointed wise men. They cannot give you anything because you already possess all there is to look for. If AYP stands for anything special it is that we stand alone without a teacher beyond our own skin. Be still and know that I am God.
(Psalms 46:10)

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Originally posted by emc

...join in on some namedropping?

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