Walking Home with Baba: The Heart of Spiritual Practice

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This is an authoritative, uncompromising, altogether real guide to spiritual practice. Rohini Ralby spent eight years as head of security, appointments secretary, and personal assistant to the great Swami Muktananda, and in their many hours alone together, this world-renowned guru taught her, one on one, the essence of spiritual practice. In Walking Home with Baba, an expert guide to spiritual practice, Rohini draws on that experience and her subsequent study and work as a spiritual director to convey, in clear and concise terms, what spiritual practice truly is: walking home, and retracing our way back to God -- to Absolute Truth, Absolute Consciousness, and Absolute Bliss. Walking Home with Baba combines intimate stories about Ms Ralby's own experiences with Muktananda and others with chapters explaining the actual work of spiritual practice. She provides tools that she has developed for freeing ourselves from misery. One chapter is perhaps the most masterfully clear and concise companion to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali available today. Readers will learn not only about Ms Ralby's experience of travelling the path and being the close disciple of a great Guru; they will gain practical guidance in walking that path themselves.

Rohini Ralby was born and raised in Boston, educated in St. Louis and Oakland, CA, and now a longtime Baltimore resident, Rohini Ralby is a nondenominational spiritual director with many students and followers around the world.

In this book, Rohini has not only given us fascinating and wonderful insights into what constitutes a spiritual journey, but done much to help others make a successful journey Home. Ramesh Pattni, Trustee of Chinmaya Mission UK. Like Baba, Rohini points the way to a most subtle path to God-the experience within your own soul. The genuine spiritual understanding she expresses so simply and directly conveys a deep insight into reality, the nature of the mind, and compassion towards others. Her words will penetrate your soul and bring you back to your own heart. Kathy Matava MS The teacher-disciple relationship is at the core of the mystical tradition, and with her luminous intelligence, joyful humor, and unending love for her Baba, Rohini is an engaging and masterful guide through territory she has traversed for more than thirty years of living and teaching the practice. Savor every word here, allowing each one to vibrate within you, because the very act of reading it will take you closer to that fountain of Truth, Bliss, and Consciousness that lies hidden in the Heart. Clara Marin, Freelance Editor Walking Home with Baba is an incredible book on spiritual practice and is accessible to readers of all denominations. Rohini does an amazing job switching between her experiences with Baba and her teachings, each chapter full of lessons. It is a book that you won't be able to put down and is highly recommended. Douglas T Oppenheimer