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H.W.L Poonja ( Papaji )
A short biography of Papaji, the famous deciple of Ramana Maharshi
He was the nephew of Swami Rama Tirtha, a famous saint who died four years before Poonja's birth.
He was a spiritual seeker from a very young age. When he was a small boy he saw a picture of Buddha as a skeletal ascetic and began to starve himself.
His father had to take him to a doctor to make him eat again.
His first samadhi occurred when he was eight or nine.
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Since he lived in a Moslem part of India, he was taken to the local mosque, where his trance was diagnosed as possession.
Poonja grew up in an Indian town that is now in Pakistan.
The samadhi lasted several days.
After it ended, in an effort to re-experience it, he followed his mother's example and
