“The Sadhana of Sri Shyamdas Babaji”, The Dharma Dispatch, December 29, 2025
“The profound Vaishnava saint, Sri Shyamdas Babaji is an exalted, non-sectarian saint in a state of constant blissful detachment and self-realisation.
I AM SPEAKING of an incident that happened 22 years ago. At that time, I was staying in the Sri Jagannath Kshetra, that is, in Sri Puri Dham. It was the summer season then. Every day in the afternoon, I would sometimes go out for a walk along the seashore, sometimes toward the samadhi temple of Jatiya Baba situated on the bank of Narendra Sarovar, sometimes toward Loknath Mahadev, and sometimes in other directions.
One day, at the aforementioned samadhi temple, I had a discussion on spiritual topics with my close friend Sri Makhan Ganguly. Sri Makhan Babu was an educated, humble, deeply religious, and highly experienced person. He was an initiated disciple (mantra-shishya) of Sri Vijaykrishna Goswami Mahoday. During our conversation about the local sadhus and mahatmas, he mentioned to me a naked Vedantin sadhu famous as Digambar Baba and a Vaishnava sadhu known as Shyamdas Babaji. Digambar Baba lived near Tota Gopinath……”
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