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.