Babaji and Spiritual Purification by Leonard Orr

  • Head shaving: a fundamental technique in spiritual
    purification in addition to constant repetition of OM NAMAHA SHIVAI
  • Yoga: owner’s manual to the human body
  • Annalee Skarin: “Physical death is a dreary backdoor into
    the other world, and there is a freight great front door of glory for
    those who have become.”
  • Hopi Indians
  • Vision quest consists of going into the wilderness by
    themselves without food until their spirit guide materializes to them.
  • Anybody who raises their consciousness and their personal
    purity to the point where they are ready to conceive of the presence of
    Babaji on this planet, become aware of him and go to visit him
  • Immortal body doesn’t look any different than mortal body.
  • Physical death is an involuntary spiritual purification
    technique: If I’m not willing to discipline myself, physical universe will
    discipline me.
  • “World is filled with darkness, and the people’s minds are
    dominated by darkness, and they run from life.”

7 BIGGIES OF SPIRITUAL PURIFICATION

The repetition of the name of god: OM NAMAHA SHIVAI (the eternal name for
God)

  • If you repeat the name 24 million times, you’ll be the
    total master of the physical universe.
  • “I am that I am:” Moses and the burning bush
  • Sitting Shiva: sit on the floor after the death of a loved
    one for a year

Thinking meditation: the affirmations of principle itself

  • Raise the quality of the content your thoughts by watching
    your thoughts constantly and replacing each negative one with a positive
    one

Earth, Air, Water & Fire

Water Purification

  • Bathe in the river twice a day (3 AM & 3 PM)
  • Cold water rebirthing
  • Sleep is death, and it’s important to bathe as soon as you
    arise in order to wash the death off your soul
  • It’s more important to clean your energy body than it is
    to clean your physical body

Air Purification

  • Rebirthing
  • Be relaxed all the time
  • Limit yourself to two 20 connected breaths until you have had
    lessons from a qualified teacher
  • Once cleaning process is not as intense, do the connected
    breathing rhythm for a few minutes a day

Fire Purification

  • Meditate on a candle
  • Go out into the forest by yourself, building a fire,
    sitting with it for 5 to 10 hours
  • Death urge has the power to destroy the physical body,
    human relationships, love, health, happiness
  • Fire purification is the most powerful in terms of wiping
    out deathist mentality, the death urge.
  • Write out your negative thoughts on paper, and put them
    into fire.
  • Take the food that you eat, and offer it to the fire

Earth Purification

1.      Walk
around your block once a day; create heaven & earth

2.      Manual
labor is a very healthy thing: True aristocrats of the world are farmers

3.      Receive
a loving massage once a week

4.      Abstinence
and nutrition: Fast at least once a week; learn baby bottle consciousness

Human Relationships

  • Getting your own energy strong enough and rich enough so
    that you can give as well as take
  • Christian practice of communion (the Lord’s Supper):
    Everybody in the room experience communion on an energy level with
    everybody else in the room
  • Become aware of your energy body enough to experience the quality
    of energy exchanges that go on all your relationships