Babaji's Cave - A Near Death Experience In India 2004
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- A journey to India in 2004 to find and visit Babaji's Cave almost took my life. I talk about my first trip to India and going to this sacred place. I had a near death experience after having a heart attack and falling 30 feet off a cliff.
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Thanks Gentleman for this wonderful story, next i am going to Babaji Cave...
Thanks for sharing another fantastic story, Bill 😊. Sorry to hear you went through those crazy bodily pains and rough spots but glad to hear you walked away from the experience seemingly revitalized, blessed, and accomplished! 😎
Love this story! I must reread the autobiography of paramahansa yogananda. I enjoy keeping Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, and Sri Yukteswar as well in my prayerful thoughts when I need extra enlightenment.
Diana Kelley
Hi Diana. I'm re-reading Yogananda's book. What a marvelous man you find as you pick your way through the pages. It's a real joy. Yes get yourself a copy, it's a damn good read. 🌻🙏
@@iains9405 I agree. Thank you 😊👍
Diana can i have your email id please so that i can tell you some enlightening facts?
You really believe these things?
Well, there had to be someone watching over you! No water, cold, sweats, heart attacks an seizures? Man you had the biggest blessing. You survived it! Love your hat! Cheers!
I think I met Babaji in a bookshop back in early 2000's b4 I was even spiritually aware. This young man was sitting on the floor next to the section on spiritual reading. I recommended a book he looked at me with eyes that pierced my heart and declared he'd read them all. He was drinking cider. Thought nothing of it but all these years never forgot...then I read about Babaji and intuitively knew. It's as it happened, no distortion no lie. It may not be him but man those eyes will always make me smile. Thought it was special then and now convinced I was blessed.
Ian M 🙏☀️💚🌹✨ blessings.
Never doubt. Omnipresence has no limitation.
@@brianlove6953 Thanks Brian you too man🌻🙏
@@baylorite hey thanks man, those eyes I shall never forget.
I met Babaji too...once in this coffee shop where I saw this young man drinking...what looked like coffee, Then I saw his gaze...his piercing gaze that let me know it wasn't coffee but a frappachino, I will never forget how bless I was at that moment
Thank you Bill for sharing your experience in such details, very inspiring.
You are a strong man with a big heart 🙏
Got this flashed on my 'recommended' page in youtube. Wow! hung onto every word. Thanks for sharing
India is a mystical place and to read a reverend speak of his experience is really awesome! Thanks very much for sharing I really appreciate it. You are an awesome human being
Sunina
Thank you for sharing, beautiful story
Loved listening to your account of the visit to Babaji"s cave. You are intrinsically a very good person. The very fact that you took a list of names of all the people you knew, good or bad, for getting them blessed just goes to prove that you have unconditional love. Now that's a rare thing in this world. Secondly, any disciple or seeker who has implicit faith in his Master is always protected. No wonder you were blessed, protected and bailed out of a critical situation. You deserved every bit of the blessing. Thanks for sharing this wonderful experience
Thank you
Wonderful comment, Saralaj............. & I agree with everything you wrote.
Beautiful story, Rev. Bill! Thank you for sharing it.
Thank you Mr. McDonald and Jai Babaji!
Snakes are sacred. Thanks so much, Bill. What a beautiful, but treacherous, experience. I am happy you made it back!
Thank you for the wonderful account of your journey to Babaji's cave.
You are such a lovely man, and thank you for sharing this wonderful story. X
Thank you so much!
thanks for sharing. Autobiography of a Yogi is my favorite book. Your story is awesome.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
U are amazing❤️ your excursions.
You are a very handsome man! I stumbled onto your channel by accident! I absolutely adore you sharing your experiences! God Bless you!
Michelle: Not sure I am handsome - but stumbling onto my videos may not have been so accidental as it seems. God bless you as well.
Michelle McReynolds ....same as me, a year later!
His eyes! ❤
Great Adventure. Thanks for sharing
I am enjoying your stories.
thank you for sharing this beautiful story. I have since two months when I meditate the same feeling you describe to your heart. I know that if I allow myself to leave the body I would have a ND, but I don't feel ready yet, or to say it better, I'm trying to finally find the courage to do it. Thank you again and much love
Great story, thanks . Glad it has such a happy ending
Wow Bill, That was a beautiful story. A guide is an easy way i believe, you were probably being guided by Babaji himself! You are so blessed! Thank you for sharing your story with us. :)
Beautiful lesson for us all
Thanks for sharing , very inspiring and interesting.
Thanks BIll, what an experience! loved hearing about your very special adventure!
Great experience you had! You are very good at relaying events very vividly and orderly
Bill wonderful story, one that's wonderfully retold as well. I saw the video a few days back and forgot about it, though it stuck in my mind. I revisited today after reading and watching videos about Babaji's cave. The most wonderful thing in the video is about the list of you carried with you, about your friends, relatives, and even people you don't like,, and reading their names diligently at all the places you visit so they could get the blessings as well. What a wonderful gesture. I think I am going to copy you, from now on.
A couple of months back I decided to visit Neem Karoli Baba's ashrams at Vrindavan and Kainchi, near nainital, with my wife. I was really pulled by the videos of Neem Karoli Baba and Krishna Das's Hanuman Chalisa -simply devine and out of this world. So I have done all my travel bookings based on my visit to these two Ashrams. I had also read about Somabari Baba's caves at Padampuri and Kakrighat and was panning to visit them.Then I was trying to look up what else I could visit near Nainital in Kumaon when I read about Babaji's cave and looked up the videos and now I am kind of hooked and am keen to see if I can visit Babaji's cave in the short stay that we have. Also being on the wrong side of seventy, I am not sure whether we can manage the trek, though both of us are in good shape and have done a quite a few treks. I would appreciate any leads from you. We have plans to be in Bhowali from 23rd to 25th October 2018. Do we need warm clothes as well?
Sounds like a wonderful spiritual journey - go for it!
Thank you so much and than you for your Blessings.
Kalyankrishnan Palghat and Bill, you are both an inspiration. I have been ill for years. Not in good shape, but have a couple pilgrimages I feel I need to take, if possible. Bill, as you were telling your story I was so excited. If you could do it, then I think I can....somehow. Kalyankrishnan, I love that you and your wife are out trekking in your seventies. Beautiful! I hope I will be doing the same.
@@Slsy11 As Bill says, go for it. I came back after a wonderful trip. It was just amazing. The late October weather was wonderful.
You can write to YSS Ashram at Dwarahat - you can look up their website in the Internet and write to them. You can stay at Dwarahat and take a Taxi upto the foot of the Dunagiri hills and trek the last couple of miles or so. It will take you an hour and half to climb up. The Ashram will provide you with an escort and a guide who knows the route.
You will enjoy the trek, the Meditation Room and the Cave.
December and January are likely to be too cold. So I will suggest sometime in late March or April as the best time to visit.
Wish you all the Best and a great Spiritual Experience.
Kalyankrishnan Palghat Thank you! I appreciate the information.
Wow that's amazing. Glad you lived to tell the tale. Om Shanti x
Wow, Bill. That is fascinating!! Am a long time fan of Yogananda, Babaji, India. Thanks for sharing.
I'm loving your videos, just found you today, I have read autobiography of a Yogi, nice book, thanks for sharing your experiences.
Good energy love video
Living in India is near death experience
India has yogis .. who believe in God , it’s a very spiritual place ..
Wow, Rev, you got "the keys to the kingdom" ❤️
I love it!!!! I hope my name was on your list!!!
Babaji is the Cobra
28 degrees at night and sweating during the day. Big temp swing. Sounds like where I live...
thank you sir .
Thank you so much 🙏
Brilliant video
SHARING shinning glowing beaming>>>thank you and you go bill!!!peacepeacepeace...
How sweet of you Bill. Love. Good luck.
pretty amazing journey. Happy to see you are here on earth and blessed.
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GOD bless you sir. Thank you for protecting our freedom.
no man should have to go to war to protect freedom get a grip
Thanks for sharing your story!
Great story!
Did you drink from the waterfall.
Do not think I did - I was blissed out and dizzy and disorientated and cannot recall if I did drink from that water fall. I doubt that I did - but I am not certain either way. I know I reached into the water fall seeking out the cobra snake that had crawled in behind it in a small cave like hole.
Hello Bill,
Very interesting. I have watched many videos about the NDE.
Peter Nolan.(Ph.D., experimental physics). Dublin. Ireland.
Thank you for your comments Peter.
Hello Bill,
You are most welcome indeed. Without going into detail we have so much in common even if our paths might be different but only with respect to the details. I am 63 64 next July and I have searched for decades for answers that might help me feel better than I used to. I'm not wholly out of the woods yet but altogether in a much nicer happier place than I used to be. Can I just say that if I was pressed to give to reduce it all down to one then I would say that stopping being angry with Mammy - forgiving Mammy - was the key to my life and being aware consciously so that my terrible temper had the most detrimental effect on me. There were imho other key components also and I will never know so much for sure but if I did elaborate I could paint a bigger picture that might tell the whole story. Then we have to factor in karma that is a great unknown in all our lives till we find ways to see what we bring with us into our present life from past lives.
You can tell probably I could just keep going like this so let me finish up by saying it's only a matter of time before pharmacists discover new drugs that will enable all of us - all of us - to have an NDE like yours that you will write about and speak about till the day you die. Happy days.
Peter.
Beautyfull story-. I hope you will meet him face to face / soul to soul... sometime in the future ahead
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Bill, how old were you in 1946 when you were involved with SRF? I was born in 1946 and you look a lot younger than me.
I was born into an SRF Family - my mother was a SRF lesson student in the 40's. So I count my toddler time growing up as being a member myself... I will turn 73 in a little over 90 days.
@@rev.billmcdonald576 You had a very good karma because ur mother was an SRF student. Thank you for responding. I also found out that you are a remarkable gentleman - a true doer.
Are you writing, or have you written a book ? If not, hope you consider it !..Blessings...
I have several books out there - my autobiography is on Amazon - "Warrior A Spiritual Odyssey" - and I will be having a newer memoir coming out about all my trips to India and much more by the end of this year.
www.amazon.com/Warrior-William-Rev-Bill-McDonald/dp/1515126641/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1502975613&sr=1-1&keywords=warrior+a+spiritual+odyssey
Thank you so much for your reply...I have the book now on order from Amazon and much look forward to reading it. Thank you for sharing your amazing and inspiring experiences. Jai !
Thank God for Kriya yoga and Master Yogananda ⭐️♥️
Wow, beautiful story 😊
The cobra was a sign of Shiva, who is the same as Mahavatar Babaji. He saved your life. You were dehydrated so it took you to a source of water, they are the protectors of water sources in India.
Baba ji, where do you live in US, can we talk sometime?
Near Sacramento California in the USA.
Awesome sharing & experience Rev.Bill McDonald. I read the autobiography of a Yogi when I was 15 or 16 back in 1974-75,before that I'd read the Bhagavita,studied world religions a LOT...Love your sharing & heart,whaddah expereince*s) to say the least. really appreciate it. Old Soul here, had an awakening at 8,12 & then this continued & I continued to grow and develop from that point on I AM now 58 1/2 yrs of Life Experience on Planet Earth. I Knew at age 3 that I was a spiritual being & that I had a deep purpose &reason for being here,the journey continues. Peace,Blesings and Light. Keith. PS: Oh ya might find this very helpful ,Lighthealing.com the personal rejuvenizer's.
Thank you for sharing your experience and watching my video. "The Autobiography of a Yogi" is still being sold and read around the world. It gives us an amazing view on the spiritual life that is normally unseen in the west. The message of that book is ageless. Blessings and peace to on your own personal journey.
I am from Europe. Thank you for your story. I love your videos. And thank you for what you do. God bless.
have you seen really mahavatar babaji.
Did you see a doctor, and are you healed?
Came back and had several heart operations and procedures - but the very first one after I got back to the USA they put in 5 stents. I am doing better now - but have had 12 heart attacks over the decade.
great story..
Babaji's name is nagaraj,
hi honey who is your guru, im very curious, can you type the name
Paramahansa Yogananda
@@rev.billmcdonald576 where is Yogananda now
Don't worry; your time is not too far away. Blessings.
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Serpents of wisdom......that cobra was a spirit agent
Sounds like he is a very good soul. I got to be blessed by too saints and I greatly appreciated that . I don't have the money or the energy to go to India So l got very lucky and the Divine Mother came to me and l am very very greatful for those blessings. Thank you Divine Mother. 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 Om
Babaji, oh won't you come to me
Won't you help me to face the music
Bring it out, so we can sing it out
Help us to find it before we lose it. Supertramp
Try reading "A search in secret India" .
Yes, in Bharat it's said that when you start your real quest for Divine, u will get sufferings n troubles n diseases n pains of all kind .....to hasten your return to supreme because Father is more happy to meet his prodigal son back
go to 9:58 to get the story.
grabbing a cobra several times is NOT a stupid idea!
try reading the bhagwad gita if u haven't already, the most powerful book in the universe
Have read it.
Also read the Quran .. absolutely beautiful ❤️and divine
Bill, I believe you are a 144! Love the hat! Great story.. God bless
Funny you never thought about putting YOUR name on that list of people. Wasn't this journey about liberating yourself from what you thought were your sufferings(or experiences)? If I may , I would strongly suggest you read up (or look up) about the teachings of A COURSE IN MIRACLES. It is information that I think would help you in your process! Thank-you for the message of hope you are bringing.
Good story, and well told. But the judgement of the Swami, not so good... I am glad you made it back in one piece.
OMG, Bill is it really you??? I thought your name was Bill Martin and I've looked for you for so long! If it's you, we met in Campbell Hot Springs in 1982 or 1983 for a rebirthing week. An Italian woman had just told me Babaji was calling me to Haidakhan and I was all confused, and you told me you had gone and he was God. You told me about your infected ear that was healed when you asked Baba to heal it so you knew you should go, and you told me to ask for a sign too. You told me Baba took you astral traveling to meet Jesus in a cave! Then, when our group went into the woods for a fire purification exercise and no one had a match, I asked Baba to light the fire if he wanted me to go to India and it lit!!! Is it you that I went through this with??? I arrived in Haidakhan on Halloween in 1983, and I was there when he left the body on Valentines Day in '84. I have SO many miraculous stories now, like you, and I have always remembered you for being such an influence to get me to go!!! Thank you SO SO much! I have written to churches in Florida looking for you, but until never had a lead. Please let me know if I have found the priest that guided me to God in form! Om Namah Shivay :)))
Gay3m
I also agree with you reincarnation is also a dream cause everything is God.
Saints sometimes take on the form of a snake, good story.
guiding him to the water to help since he just nearly died too
If you cry out to the most powerful name of n the universe the name Jesus for help you will be saved I did this and what I felt and saw next was mind blowing love and a cross bright shing light that got lighter and lighter and I saw Jesus felt Jesus dying on cross a mountain of sin heaped above him then it came down on his heart his heart broke he died and Jesus sang his love over me his voice like a vibrating broke many waters and arc angels voice love excstatic oceans of love pouring into me then I saw heaven split open a Lamb with light coming from it's back and my soul transformed into a Lambs this is called being born again and it says in Bible it's only way into heaven yet it's so so simple
lahiri mahasaya
i like his hat
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