Autobiography of Yogi Quotes – Flashcards

"God plants His saints sometimes in unexpected soil, lest we think that we may reduce Him to a rule!"

"You go often into the silence, but have you developed anubhava?" He was reminding me to love God more than meditation. "Do not mistake the technique for the Goal."

"People in general are more fond of Jala Yoga (union with food) than of Dhyana Yoga (union with God)"

"A knowledge of yoga, like the daylight, is free to all who will receive it."

"I am training disciples. They and their line of students will serve as living volumes, proof against the natural disintegrations of time and the unnatural interpretations of the critics"

"You have renounced riches and comforts to seek God and teach us wisdom." (student of Bhaduri Mahasay)..."You are reversing the case!" The saint's face held a mild rebuke. "I have left a few paltry rupees, a few petty pleasures for a cosmic empire of endless bliss. How then have I denied myself anything? I know the joy of sharing the treasure. Is that a sacrifice? The shortsighted worldly folk are verily the real renunciants! They relinquish an unparalleled divine possession for a poor handful of earthly toys!"

I chuckled over this paradoxical view of renunciation - one that puts the cap of Croesus on any saintly beggar, whilst transforming all proud millionaires into unconscious martyrs.

"The divine order arranges our future more wisely than any insurance company." The master's concluding words were the realized creed of his faith. "The world if full of uneasy believers in an outward security. Their bitter thoughts are like scars on their foreheads. The One who gave us air and mild from our first breath knows how to provide day by day for His devotees."

"The sacred is in the ordinary...to be looking elsewhere for miracles is a sure sign of ignorance...everything is miraculous."

"My rule of seclusion is not for my own comfort, but for that of others. Worldly people do not like the candor that shatters their delusions. Saints are not only rare but disconcerting. Even in scripture, they are often found embarrassing!"