Mahasaya Quotes

#1. Many a morning and evening found Mother and me meditating before an improvised shrine, offering flowers dipped in fragrant sandalwood paste. With frankincense and myrrh as well as our united devotions, we honored the divinity which had found full expression in Lahiri Mahasaya.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#2. It grew louder, siren crying from her the depth of very voice; Sweet melodies to
guide me to the underworld.

Chika Onyenezi

#3. Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of Kriya, learn to escape into Spirit.

Lahiri Mahasaya

#4. Mason McCarthy cut a hard, forbidding figure. It was like he'd been built for destruction. Or something far more pleasurable.

Julie Ann Walker

#5. Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the land and outward to other people.

Michael Pollan

#6. I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.

Jamie Cullum

#7. Our eagerness for worldly activity kills in us the sense of spiritual awe

Lahiri Mahasaya

#8. My worship is of a very strange kind.
In this, Ganga water is not required.
No special utensils are necessary.
Even flowers are redundant.
In this puja all gods have disappeared.
And emptiness has emerged with euphoria.

Lahiri Mahasaya

#9. Every decent man of our time is and is bound to be a coward and a slave. This is his normal condition. I am deeply convinced of that. This is how he is constituted, and this is what he is meant to be.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God

Lahiri Mahasaya

#11. Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world - so make the acquaintanceship of God now.

Lahiri Mahasaya

#12. Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing.

Lahiri Mahasaya

#13. I am ever with those who practice Kriya Yoga. I will guide you to the
Cosmic Home through your enlarging perceptions.

Lahiri Mahasaya