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Mahasamadhi of Yogi S.A.A. Ramaiah

     Our beloved Yogiar S.A.A. Ramaiah left the physical body on Guru Purnima Day, July 12, 2006, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at the age of  83.  He has been laid to rest in the Mahasamadhi Shrine of the Athanoor Palaniandavar Kovil.
     The great deathless Maa Siddha Kriya Babaji Nagaraj of the Himalayas initiated Yogiar into Kriya Yoga in 1948, and then assigned him to carry the art and science of  Kriya Yoga to all corners of the world.  To this end, Yogiar Ramaiah founded Kriya Babaji  Sangah in the San Thome section of Chennai, India, in 1952, and his International  Babaji Yoga Sangam now includes 50 centers worldwide.  It has always been Yogiar’s will that these centers be nourished and maintained as if they were his own natural children.  They are, and will remain, havens for those who would “seek Babaji to become a Babaji”.
     Yogiar was one of the first to bring yoga to America, establishing ten centers in the U.S.A. and Canada. Over the years, Yogiar blessed more than 2000 souls with dikshai and initiation into Babaji’s powerful techniques.  To further spread Babaji’s message of Unity in Diversity,  Yogiar presided over fifty-two consecutive, annual Parliaments of World Religion and Yoga, beginning in 1954.  His fifty-third will be held in Sedona, Arizona, on 2006 August 26 and 27.
     Yogiar pioneered in the field of Yoga Therapy.  Trained as a physical therapist at Mumbai’s G.S. Medical College from 1958-61, he subsequently operated a free rehabilitation clinic in San Thome, Chennai.  In 1986, he established a College of Yoga Therapy at Athanoor, Tamil Nadu, where he loved to treat patients and conduct classes.  A renowned scholar of the writings of the Tamil Yoga Siddhas, he published several volumes of the highly subtle works of Boganathar, Agastyar, and other Masters of the Eighteen Siddhas Tradition, and translated many of  their verses into English.
     Yogiar established temples in several locations:  The Richville Murugan Temple in New York State; the Imperial Desert Ayappa Swami Cave Shrine in California; the Parengipettai Babaji Birthplace Shrine in Tamil Nadu, India; the Yuma Babaji Ramalingeswarar and Palani Murugan Kovils in Arizona; the Washington D.C. Babaji Kovil in the U.S. capital;  the Katirgamam Babaji Kovil in Sri Lanka; the Grahamsville Kali Kovil in New York’s  Catskill Mountains; and the Athanoor Palaniandavar Kovil and Mahasamadi Shrine in Tamil Nadu, India.
     It was in 1983, after the strain of overseeing the construction of the Yuma Ramalingeswarar Temple, that Yogiar first began feeling serious cardiac symptoms.  Yogiar always said that there was great value to be discovered in all the healing arts, both traditional and modern, so in seeking treatment for his own illness, he found that while bypass surgery, pharmaceutical treatment, and  "EECP" therapy provided a lot of relief, these modern scientific methods were even more effective when supplemented with asana and prana yoga therapy and with vegetarian diet therapy.
     With almost no regard for his own comfort, and despite his cardiovascular weakness, Yogiar remained tirelessly dedicated to the work of Sathguru Babaji, right up to the end.  In this respect , he was superhuman and absolutely phenomenal; but his physical suffering was very human and full of pain that he endlessly pushed aside, so that he could continue the work on and on into the wee hours of the morning , every day with never a break.
     Yogiar built the sangam on the bedrock of family values.  With Babaji as Father and Kriya Annai Nagalakkumi as Mother, an unshakeable sense of security and shared sense of purpose binds as brothers and sisters, the sangam’s culturally and attitudinally diverse sadhaks and devotees.  The yoga centers and temples he established seem infused with the sadhanas and yogic disciplines he practiced.  These centers and temples  have been built with hammer and nail, brick and mortar, hard-earned money, and Divine Love;  they are simple refuges, where suffering humanity may resonate harmoniously with the Divine Will, and thus find relief, hope, and visions of a more compassionate future.
     It seems terribly inadequate to describe Yogiar by presenting a chronology or listing his accomplishments.   Everything he did seemed to be a channeling of Divine Love, even if we weren‘t capable of immediately appreciating and understanding this.  Indeed, so effective and consistent was this channeling, that for all intents and purposes, he was, to us, Divine Love incarnate.
    Those who wish to honor Yogiar may kindly devote their lives to God and Truth.
Om Shanti!  Shanti!!  Shanti!!!
Om Kriya Babaji Nama Aum!

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