Studying the words and expressions of a realized master offers a glimpse into the secret workings of the Divine...

Baba on Baba

A few quotes in which Baba alludes to his divine identity...

Hariharananda is not an ordinary teacher. This is the teacher who is leading you to the Truth, to God, to Godhood. Follow me.

No one can understand who is Hariharananda. If he tries, he will become mad.

The realized monk, who can give light and who can teach disciples so that they can also be realized and spiritual, is very dear to every person.

There are many monks, but the real realized monk, who has penetrated the veil of nature's splendors, who is free from all body senses, worldly attachments, who has achieved thorough introvert stage, and those who have penetrated the veil of all religions, are very rare. In many religions there are flaws. The real realized yogis, who have perceived the super-conscious stage and cosmic consciousness, can infuse that power. I am telling you that we are purifying the fifty body parts of every human being who is taking Kriya Yoga initiation.

Within three minutes' time, Paramahamsa Hariharananda can remove all your negatives and infuse the triple divine qualities. Immediately you can get spontaneous divine sound, light and vibration.

The realized man can infuse his power during the time of initiation and can cover all the delusion, illusion and error of the initiate by his power. He can infuse shaktipata, so that the triple divine qualities arise in the devotee and the marvelous kundalini shakti can be withdrawn from the coccygeal center to the fontanel.

The touch of the guru can give divine sensation in the body. As the seeds are sown in the ground and after a short period the tree comes out and the divine fruit grows, similarly the guru can infuse his divine qualities and power through touch by which the Serpent Power [kundalini] and all the divine qualities come up in the fontanel.

At that auspicious moment, when Babaji taught this authentic, original Kriya technique to Lahiri Baba, he said, "You can be a sage everywhere, because there is no Truth anywhere. People are doing religious play, they are busy with dogmatic views, they are busy with fanatic ideas. You spread my message, which includes this scientific technique. It is higher than a common religion, it gives the quickest means of success." Babaji brought this technique and gave it to Shriyukteshwarji, and Shriyukteshwarji gave it to me. It was the desire of Shriyukteshwarji that true monks, who know the real Kriya Yoga technique, should infuse the divine power on the body and create divineness within.

When you go to a cobbler's house, certainly he will fix your shoes, when you go to a carpenter's house, he will fix whatever you need to have fixed, and when you go to a cook's house you eat. But I am only a drunkard, and when you come to a bartender's house you drink. I am a drunkard for God's love, and all I can do is offer you this wine, bliss and love, when you visit me.

If the police came to Swami and said that they had one thousand Kriyavans in prison and that they would release all of them if I would just tell one lie, I could not tell that lie!

Do not worship me...Be like me!

Hariharananda is a servant of every person. He eats like the servant, he behaves like the servant, but Hariharananda is teaching to always watch God in you and in every human body and worship them, feed them spiritual technique. Bring them up like Hariharananda. Please be Hariharananda.

Hariharananda is in every human being. I bow to him in every human being.

I am always with you. I am the Soul in you. Hari-hara-ananda. The formless power of God is abiding in you. He is pulling breath. Your breath is my presence.

Just as the professor teaches and the students follow and become professors, so I am teaching and you are following. Follow the Guru and be realized. That is why I am going everywhere, that is why I am giving my life—to distribute spirituality. What is my life? Breath only.

I am feeling the living presence of God, Jesus, in me. Any prophet, any power of God, I love them. No question of caste, creed, color, and country.

Hariharananda is trying his utmost to take all students from darkness to light, from dishonesty to honesty, from sloth to activity, from impurity to purity, from death to immortality.

Shriyukteshwar told me to go to the Western countries to teach this Kriya Yoga technique.

Only the realized monk who has attained nirvikalpa samadhi—Paramahamsa Hariharananda—and his authorized yogacharya disciples can carry seekers through the right and left lobes of the cerebrum and to the pineal gland in between them.

The needle of the compass always points towards the north. Similarly, the compass of my mind is always on the "north," that is, to my pituitary and fontanel, to His presence. Constantly I will feel "I am fortunate: I am a man in God, God in man."

I am constantly fixing my attention in the fontanel. This is the place I am talking from; I am thinking "This is not talked by me, it is my indwelling Self Who is remaining in the fontanel." He allows me to provide answers to questions. According to your question, I am giving the answer. This is called spiritual talk.

I was inside the ashram for 11 ½ years inside my room, not going out. Food was automatically coming to my room and I was meditating, so I attained the samadhi stage. Now, I am free from all centers. I am free from money. I never enjoyed sexually in my life. My food is very simple, just to keep my body all right.