Unless we learn to be grateful and humble we cannot evolve.
Ganesh Baba

bits of Ganesh Baba’s wisdom plucked from
The Crazy Wisdom of Ganesh Baba, his unpublished writings, and Ira Landgarten’s recordings

from The Crazy Wisdom of Ganesh Baba, page 50:

I just discovered this excerpt in another of Baba's unpublished manuscripts, his autobiography, Search of Self. He is writing about his guru, Sri Tripura Charan Devasharma, who wrote the original book which is now being passed on as The Crazy Wisdom of Ganesh Baba:

In the spring of 1980, my guru Ganesh Baba, High Hipster, Rainbow Head, Psychedelic Swami, Naga baba, Kriya yogi, scientist, scholar, and British-Indian gentleman, decided that I should edit one of his manuscripts, Sadhana. Sadhana is Baba's translation and updating of his own guru Sri Tripura Devasharma's book by the same title.

Nothing much changed: Eve’s life hadn’t been easy for a long time. Her burdens were heavy. Her back ached from carrying what felt like the weight of the world. And for the longest time, no one even noticed.

One Sunday last summer Tom and I joined his parents for a service at their church. The nave of church, spare and white in classic Swedish Lutheran style, is undecorated except for a huge cross accented with eight glass blocks, one at the each end and four at its center.

As I listened to the pastor and looked at the cross, the language and stories he was telling took on a new meaning for me.

When asked in the late 1970's whether he believed an apocalypse was coming, Ganesh Baba responded that rather than a massive destructive shift, there would be millions of individual apocalypses, some in groups, but all ultimately individual. At the time, I found that comforting - and still do, but in a new way.

Excerpts of this wonderful interview of Ganesh Baba by Terry Clifford were published in High Times:

http://blog.theflowerraj.com/?p=556

The Flower Raj is packed with excellent, re-digitized material from the hippie era in India:

http://theflowerraj.com/