Centro Bhole Baba

The Bhole Baba Center of Cisternino (Brindisi, Apulia, Italy) was created in 1979 by the will of Mahavatar Babaji as the first Babaji Ashram in the Western world. It was created to help spread His teachings and message of Truth, Simplicity, and Love, and to help bring humanity live according to the Sanatana Dharma, the Universal Eternal Law. The Center participates to the Italian Herakhandi Samaj and is managed by Babaji devotees through the Bhole Baba Foundation (organization) and the Bhole Baba Association (administration), and with the support of donations from devotees and visitors. Life at the Cisternino ashrams unfolds according to the same model as in Babaji’s Ashram in Herakhan, alternating meditation, and prayers to communal work. Babaji’s yoga is an integral yoga, to be developed also in social activities, based on devotion (Bhakti Yoga) and the ability to act in everyday life, without attachments, offering each action to the Divine (Karma Yoga). The ashram life is a school where you learn to know your own self and to discover the presence of the Divine within you. Babaji’s teaching is universal, respectful of each religious belief. It doesn’t offer a new religion, but the thousands of years-old science of Yoga, the knowledge of the mind, and the way of the heart.