The purpose of creating this special abridged edition is to simplify it and better elucidate the spiritual culture of India in order to make it palatable for a larger readership. With the blessings of Babaji and great masters, may this book be more availble to all truth seekers the world over. Babaji - The Lightning Standing Still is the definitive book on Mahavatar Babaji, His divine work throughout the ages, and His secret avataric assistants, unveiling the most detailed and profound information about the Babaji mystery ever to be revealed. Sanctioned by the divine Mahavatar Shiva Goraksha Babaji Himself, and authored by his direct disciple Yogiraj Siddhanath, this book serves the highest spiritual welfare of Humanity in the coming golden age. Emerging from the depths of Yogiraj s anubhuti, his inner experience of the fathomless Ahirbudnya avastha, the Babaji phenomenon is extolled in poetic majesty. Included are the most treasured secrets of the Kriya Yoga science, the facts and origins of Babaji, Babaji s mission and purpose, and the secret history of human spiritual evolution that He is tending. It illuminates Babaji s role on earth from the cradle of consciousness to the fathomless futures of eternity, and reveals mysteries veiling Babaji s disciples like Moses, Jesus, Krishna, Bhishma, Kalki Maitreya, Vaivaswat Manu, Lahiri Mahasaya and Sri Yukteswar Giri. Also revealed are never-before details about Shamballah, the White Brotherhood, the lost sciences of Alchemy, Magic and the Hermetic mysteries, the Mahatma rays, the Root Race lineages, the true meaning of 2012, and the identities of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Yogiraj corroborates his knowingness with dozens of images, writings and quotes from and about Babaji, derived from ancient and historic sources and collected personally from the length and breadth of India, making this a research and reference book of scholarly depth. Finally, each page is inundated with the powerful vibrations of Yogiraj s consciousness, fused in the wondrous eternity of Babaji s Nothingness. To the eagle-hearted reader, craving for Divine grace, this is more than just a book; it s a pathway to the higher realms.