I have known Paagal Baba since 1970, he must be 10 years older than me. He’s been a Naga Baba since a child & and despite belonging to Niranjani Akhara, he’s had a very long association with Datt Akhara and my lineage. We’ve been everywhere together over the many years.
Taking the vrat of Urdhvabahu, Amar Bharti Maharaj, my dear brother, kept his arm raised in the air for 50 years. I believe we first me at the Haridwar Kumbh Mela in 1986, at which time he had already had his arm raised for a number of years. When you push human endurance, certain potentials open up, then, it’s how you exploit those potentials. We’ve had a lifetime of great conversations, he was a radical intellectual and a true Sanatan Dharmi & Naga Baba. We spent time at all the Kumbh Melas & at my ashram at Haridwar.
Amar Puri Maharaj was inseparable from Hari Puri for the last years of his life, and when Hari Puri took samadhi, he left Amloda Kund for Amar Puri’s ashra, at Siloda, Madhya Pradesh where he is buried. So at that time, Amar Puri took over the role of guru for me. He had been an alchemist and taught me many deshi secrets. But his powers were more than revealed when he was made Pir of Datt Akhara in 1979.
