Lahiri Mahasaya Spiritual Quotes
Lahiri Mahasaya was born on September 30, 1828 in Ghurni, Bengal, India. He came from a Brahmin family, and even as a child, he showed signs of being deeply spiritual, he was often seen sitting in yogic postures.
When he turned 33, Lahiri Mahasaya met his guru Babaji, near Ranikhet. Babaji initiated him into Kriya Yoga, a powerful spiritual practice. From then on, Lahiri Mahasaya dedicated his life to spreading and teaching this ancient wisdom of Kriya Yoga.
Despite his spiritual pursuits, he managed to balance them with his family responsibilities. He wanted to demonstrate to all that spirituality isn’t just for monks but can be a part of anyone’s daily life.
His teachings became well-known, especially after Paramahansa Yogananda’s book, “Autobiography of a Yogi,” introduced him to the Western world. Through his life and teachings, Lahiri Mahasaya inspired countless people to integrate spirituality into their daily lives. Here are few of his notable quotes…
All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God. – Lahiri Mahasaya
Our eagerness for worldly activity kills in us the sense of spiritual awe. – Lahiri Mahasaya
No matter what the disciple’s problem, the guru advised Kriya Yoga for its solution. – Lahiri Mahasaya
If you don’t invite God to be your summer Guest, He won’t come in the winter of your life. – Lahiri Mahasaya
Entering into the realm of the soul is not possible if you do not consider yourself to be small. – Lahiri Mahasaya
The impurity of jaggery is removed by a certain process, similarly continuous Pranayama entails purification. – Lahiri Mahasaya
Seek divine wealth, not the paltry tinsel of earth. After acquiring inward treasure, you will find that outward supply is always forthcoming. – Lahiri Mahasaya
Remember that you belong to no one and no one belongs to you. Reflect that someday you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world- so make the acquaintance of God now. Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by riding daily in a balloon of divine perception. Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles. Meditate unceasingly, that you quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. Cease being a prisoner of body; using the secret key of KRIYA learn to escape into Spirit. – Lahiri Mahasaya
Kriya is an ancient science. – Lahiri Mahasaya
Special knowledge is science. This only is Atmajnana or soul- knowledge. – Lahiri Mahasaya
Ignorance spontaneously is removed through the practice of excellent Pranakarma. – Lahiri Mahasaya
The one who does not envision the Kutastha according to the Guru’s advice is blind. – Lahiri Mahasaya
Household asrama (garhastya) is the biggest asrama as other asramas are based on it. – Lahiri Mahasaya
Practising Kriya and remaining in Kriya’s transcendental state – this entails saying everything. – Lahiri Mahasaya
Prana only is the source of all power. Engrossing in Pranasadhana entails every sadhana practice. – Lahiri Mahasaya
Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing. – Lahiri Mahasaya
I am ever with those who practice Kriya Yoga. I will guide you to the Cosmic Home through your enlarging perceptions. – Lahiri Mahasaya
By serving wise and ignorant sadhus, I am learning the greatest of virtues, pleasing to God above all others — humility. – Lahiri Mahasaya
He only is wise who devotes himself to realizing, not reading only, the ancient revelations. Solve all your problems through meditation. – Lahiri Mahasaya
Divine union is possible through self-effort, and is not dependent on theological beliefs or on the arbitrary will of a ‘Cosmic Dictator’. – Lahiri Mahasaya
This Atmasurya is Mahapurusha Brahma, He only is the Container of the universe; everything evolves from here and ultimately everything merges here. – Lahiri Mahasaya
The master never counseled slavish belief. Words are only shells, he said. Win conviction of God’s presence through your own joyous contact in meditation. – Lahiri Mahasaya
Bhagavan marks His Advent as a Guru controlling His devotees and He imparts knowledge, counsel to ones whenever it is necessary for them. This Guru only is the Sadguru. – Lahiri Mahasaya
The One Who is All-pervasive infinitely in the macrocosm, visualizing that unchangeable one is soul-visualization or Brahma – visualization. He is Infinite Soul but can be realized. – Lahiri Mahasaya
To familiarize the readers about his Guru Babaji ,Yogiraj, in his personal diary, has delineated a human face and thus recounted beside it – “Ehi Babajike rupa, ehi yama, ehi dharma” – Lahiri Mahasaya
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
Settlement in the advaita (non-duality) state removes the difference between God and the devotee. The state in which the knower, known and knowledge become one; that only is the state of science. This is the true devotion or true knowledge. – Lahiri Mahasaya
The Kriya Yoga which I am giving to the world through you in this nineteenth century is a revival of the same science which Krishna gave, millenniums ago, to Arjuna, and which was later known to Patanjali, and to Christ, St. John, St. Paul, and other disciples. – Lahiri Mahasaya
The yogic key will not lose its efficiency when I am no longer present in the body to guide you. This technique cannot be bound, filed, and forgotten, in the manner of theoretical inspirations. Continue ceaselessly on your path to liberation through Kriya, whose power lies in practice. – Lahiri Mahasaya
Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh, healing waters of direct perception. Attune yourself to the active inner Guidance; the Divine Voice has the answer to every dilemma of life. Though man’s ingenuity for getting himself into trouble appears to be endless, the Infinite Succor is no less resourceful. – Lahiri Mahasaya
The dazzling sun of the sky, whose brilliance has made this macrocosm radiant, that sun’s form, fire, resplendence, heat are all Me. When there is nothing barring Me in this universe then along with the sun of the sky I only prevail amidst the total creation. Without My Immanence the resplendent sun of the sky will be absent, thus I have created and am maintaining the totality. In this manner all the forms noticeable in this world are My Form only, My manifestations only. Therefore I only am the Master of creation, preservation and mergence taken together. – Lahiri Mahasaya
If one had to travel to a distant place for a few days, some requisites would be necessary. In this instance, the traveller is conversant about the place and period of stay. Yet without the prescribed requisites, travel is impossible. But when this body is abandoned and you have to proceed to an unknown path for an indefinite period of time, then how many requisites would be necessary? No material objects will be required then. The destination and duration of stay is unknown. That requisite has to be acquired in this present life through yogasadhana and carried over and that sadhana-derived experience will be the only requisite in the form of reformation. This requisite is imperishable. – Lahiri Mahasaya