I have, in my shop, only God and nothing else!

He did not like to live on the charities from the corrupt people, who had earned their money by unfair means. So he acted fearful or arrogant or even insulting to them, depending upon the person, place and circumstances. Rana Kaiser Shumsher used to say, “Don’t go near SB. Fear him like a lion!”

To the simple folk, who approached him with love and reverence, he was kindness personified.

To those who came to see him as a “museum piece”, he acted indifferent and would even suggest going away as soon as they have seen him!

To those who came for some worldly desires, like money, name fame, position, children, relief from diseases, siddhis or powers, he would say, “I have, in my shop, only God and nothing else! If you want other articles, please go to others’ shops, where they are available”. Then, he would go to complete silence! So people had to go away!

on Charity

Charity makes us pleasant and gives us better health.

Give 10% of your property in Charity. Then your earning will be safe.

One who wants to see-God in this very life, should give away one-tenth of his Capital wealth and his Running wealth. He is sure to see God in this very life or in the next, according to one’s earnestness. If one does not do this Charity, he cannot expect to see Him in this life.

Charity, like RL, should be private. What one hand gives in charity, the other hand should not know, what to talk of your wife, etc.! You have to use a lot of Discrimination while doing charity: 

For poor people - food and clothes: Food - cooked meal is best; it is best to feed them in your house till
they are satisfied: Clothes - old clothes for the poor; not new, because it may be sold for money which may be used for drinks, etc. 

Cash for the worthy; because then he can use properly. 

Beware of ascetics while giving money; they may do prostitution or drink in the dark! If you do charity for such people, you will earn demerits instead!

Absolute Liberation

My teachings are meant for all human beings who long for God, for full perfection, for Absolute Liberation. As I have already said, they are not mine but God's. These teachings are older than the teachings of any particular religion. The Right Life I speak of is a direct way to God. If you know the way to this place and want to come here, you need no guide, you can come by yourself. So if you don't know the Right Life, the direct way to God, you need a religion, not otherwise. The Right Life contains the best in all religions and also transcends them. It is open to all who, being endowed with common sense, are open to it.

we are born to think of, and see, GOD

In Right Life, emphasis is on teachings, not on teacher.

If I write my experiences, I can fill up thousands of volumes. But this will not turn people's minds towards Right Life. Moreover, they will flock here and disturb my personal life.

Do necessary duties for maintaining life and think maximum of God.

Everything goes against us till we know God.

God can be experienced but can never be explained.

If God is seen and known, no more trouble: fears, pains, doubts and anxieties are gone for ever.

Intensify your longing for God more and more. At length, let the thought of God be alone in your mind, destroy every other thought. You will see God before you and all your problems are solved for good.

If the ocean has to flow out through a small opening only, how much its force will increase! So, if our thoughts, feelings, activities are limited to minimum duties and maximum God-contemplation, i.e., Right Life, their quality will increase enormously.

What is the greatest aim of life? To see Truth or God.

So far as my own function is concerned, it must be personal like that of a doctor treating patients. My prescription must be particular to the case in hand because people are in different circumstances. This is why I don't write any book.

For what are we born? We are born to think of, and see, God, the First Cause.

Why is it that all aspirants do not get the guidance of a Fully Enlightened Soul? Because they do not really hunger for such a perfect Teacher. It is generally due to inertia, ignorance and arrogance.

Shivapuri Baba on the Siddhis - Yogic Powers

Faith and devotion will awaken Serpentine Power (Kundalini Shakti): develop them, not Hatha Yoga.

Emperorship, Yogic Power, Contemplative Meditation i.e. Gaddhi, Siddhi, & Samadhi - all these come but you should go beyond them and see God!

2 things take a man away from God; one is Pleasure; other is Temptation offered by Powers (Siddhis).

Dama - controlling Indriyas Sama - controlling Mind.

The 26 Virtues are the following: 1. Abhayam Satwasamshuddhi gyanayoga byabasthiti Danam damasscha yagyascha swadhyastapah arajaam. 2. Ahimsa satyam akrodhtyaga shantirapaishunam. Dayaabhootesualoluptwam mardavam hrira chapalam. 3. Teja Kshema Daya dhrithih shaucham adroho matimanita Bhabanti sampadam daivim abhjatasya bharata.

Translated into English they are: 1. Fearlessness, mental purity, persistence in the practice of knowledge, charity, sense-control, sacrifice, study of scripture, penance, uprightness; 2. Nonviolence, truthfulness, freedom from wrath, renunciation, tranquility, absence of envy, kindness to living being, uncovetousness, gentleness, modesty, dignity; 3. Splendour, patience, vigor, cleanliness, non-haughtiness - these pertain to
one inheriting divine attributes.

Sankhya and Yoga - For Failed Students; RL - For Brilliant First Class Students!

In a sense these Yoga, etc. are all useless.

Modem scientific means of communication such as Radio, TV, secret information system were not available in old days. Yogis with divine powers therefore used to be maintained by kings for such information. Thus for example the secret plan of attack by the enemies and of their advance in battle could be known.

Siddhis are like money; they are Expendable as well as Bondage-Creating!

Power-worship or the way of power is the rule in the world; but in reality Purity (Suddhi) has more value than the way of Power (Shakti).

Gita’s Yoga is Yoga for or with God. Patanjali’s Yoga is Hathayoga.

Patanjali Yogi practices non violence (Ahimsa); RL person does not, e.g. Krishna advised Arjuna to kill people for RL!

Electron and Protons - Shiva-Shakti. Atoms not broken; if broken, there will be a chain reaction and total destruction.

Two things take man away from God: they are Pleasures and Temptations acquired by special powers and special experiences. Remember also that mere Ascetism is useless.

sayings on Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi was Rajasic in action, Rajasic in knowledge and Rajasic in devotion. He did no Vikarma (harmful action). He had no knowledge of right duties. He was devoted more to ideals than to God or the ultimate Truth.
(February, 1948)

Gandhi had Bhakti Yoga and Gyana Yoga (seen in high morality) but not Karma Yoga. Gandhi could use only Sama and Dana (the policies of peace and concession) Take to the Right Life as Gandhi took to working out his principles - in a firm, planned and fearless manner.
(February, 1948)

Gandhi, Tagore, etc., have no right to speak on Spiritual matters.
(October, 1954)

Gandhi will enjoy the pleasures of emperorship in his next life.

Christ realised God at the point of death, Ramakrishna a day or so before his death. Mahatma Gandhi also could have realised God, if he had begged God for His Darshan, at least at the point of death, but he was ignorant in this respect: this was the difference between Christ and Gandhi.

comments on Buddha

Buddha's teachings are M.A. texts. Beginners must study some elementary texts also. Once a Bhikshu made a moral mistake (went to a woman) and was kicked out by Buddha.

Buddha's disciples had made their mind an intelligence all right. He spoke the highest science.

Buddha also committed mistakes, admitted all and sundry, women, etc., to the order. So much corruption crept in.

Speech has value and no value. The only real Speech is e.g. Buddha's Tour Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path'. Now the Eightfold Path for you.

Only towards the end, Buddha seems to have understood the Right Life. He began saying, "Be a Lamp unto thyself".

Why are we slaves of nature, of birth, disease, death, etc? Why are we not their masters? Buddha talked of concentration, but concentration on what? His Eightfold Path good because after following it one may be fit for concentrating on the right question.

Buddha had a far superior mind and dispassion compared to Yudhisthira.

Today a great day - Buddha took such a determination - "Even if this body breaks into pieces or is eaten up by worms, I will not budge an inch from this spot till I see the Truth".

Q. Buddha ate mushroom, suffered terribly for three months and died. How can he be said to have
conquered suffering? SB: Buddha had understood only the court, not the King.

Q. My progress seems to be very, very slow? SB: Though Buddha was so earnest in his search for the Truth, he took seven years to realise It. So, you who are only partial students may require even more time.

Buddha alone knew: life is full of ills.

Remember Buddha's last message? Be a lamp unto thyself. Simple duties and simple God-rememberance. Here necessary duties for maintaining body then centring round God and seeing God. Leave off all ideas of contacting me spiritually after my departure. Duties and God will bring everything necessary. Be a lamp unto thyself, as Buddha said at the end, as Krishna said to Uddhava. Stick to duties and centre round God.

Buddha's Path and Adwaitic Path - one.

a being from another world

"The first sight of his face brought a gasp of astonishment. It had an unearthly beauty, with hair and beard of the finest texture streaming out like a halo, and eyes that had a penetrating quality that made one feel that one was standing in the presence of a being from another world. And yet Shivapuri Baba was wholly without the demeanour one might expect from a Holy Man. At no time during our many conversations did he make any suggestion that he was to be venerated or even treated as different from ordinary men."

J.G. Bennett


This man was completely different from any other man I have ever seen. He was serene. At the first interview I knew nothing of the man, of his great age and his saintly reputation. Yet I was immediately aware of his aura of serenity. I cannot teil you what it was like because I know nothing with which I can compare it...And the depths of his serenity would fill me as we talked of life and death, of God and man.

Dr. Ainslie Meares

Our Sun is Energy moving at great speed

Incidentally, Shivapuri Baba told me once:

This sun of ours is Energy moving at great speed, like a burning stick rotating at the rate of “millions” of revolutions per minute. If you look at it from a distance, it appears to be a big ball of fire! As a matter of fact, it is relatively a small object. The scientists say that Mass & Energy are same, that Energy in a great velocity makes a bigger mass, and that matter is Energy i.e., Spirit! Interesting, isn’t?

sayings of Sri Shivapuri Baba

We should always have a positive attitude. We are servants of God and shall overcome every obstacle.

Have praise and blame only for God: "Why did you create me; why don't you appear before me?". It is
really a lover's quarrel (as between husband and wife).

If you don't live the Right Life, after death you may not get another human birth for crores (hundreds of
thousands) of years.

Believe in one God. Why believe in many gods and deities?

The only child of a mother dies and how she weeps and thinks of the child. So must we think of God.

Enquiry is the only reality. Who created all this? Why? How? Where is He? What is the Source of all these things; of thought? What is this Life? What is the Source of this consciousness? Go deep in meditation; everything will become clear to you.

The urge for God must come from within oneself, others cannot give it. Only after one has got complete defeat from life can one turn to God.

These teachings must be personal. That's why I don't write any book.

Orthodox people cannot like me because I live like an up-to-date person. Up-to-date people cannot like me because I talk like an orthodox person. Only those who want to see the Beyond can like me.