Yogi Quotes

“Deja Vu All Over Again”
― Yogi Berra

“What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.”
― Osho, Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega Volume 10

“For a Siddhar yogi, time is precious. It is important to utilize every moment to evolve into ever higher states of consciousness. We understand stagnancy as decay and for growth, we constantly discard the old to welcome change as the new. We tap into the magical abilities to evolve. "Every saint was a sinner in the past" maxim holds true. In the intensity of our yogic pursuit we evolve quickly. By evolving, we know that is the greatest gift of a lifetime we could ever receive- to be angelic as a being of consciousness. Consciousness is ever evolving and dynamic in transforming.”
― Nandhi Tapasyogi, Mastery of Consciousness: Awaken the Inner Prophet: Liberate Yourself with Yogic Wisdom.

“Who is the witness of all this?
Who is looking behind your eyes?
Who is the witness of the coming & going of thoughts?
Who is the witness of the coming & going of sensations?
Who is the witness of every experience or phenomenon you perceive?

Just stay there, with that witness,
that background where everything appears & disappears.”
― SantataGamana, Kriya Yoga Exposed: The Truth About Current Kriya Yoga Gurus, Organizations & Going Beyond Kriya, Contains the Explanation of a Special Technique Never Revealed Before

“Staying in the Beingness.
Without judgement.
This is where the real progress happens.”
― SantataGamana, Kriya Yoga Exposed: The Truth About Current Kriya Yoga Gurus, Organizations & Going Beyond Kriya, Contains the Explanation of a Special Technique Never Revealed Before

“Three types of people are never able to sleep peacefully: Yogi (One who’s involved in persistent effort to better oneself so as to better the world), Bhogi (One who’s extremely involved in satisfying his/her carnal pleasures or addictions) and Rogi (One who has incurred unbearable pain through illness by abusing one’s own body and mind).”
― Mahesh Prabhu, Essentials of Vedic Wisdom for Blissful Living

“Meditation betters not only the mind but also the brain.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Kriya Yoga is more than a meditation technique; it is also a way of life, and requires acceptance by the initiate of certain spiritual disciplines and injunctions.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“Yoga is her favorite superpower.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“The number of seconds the average person spends in the present moment in a year does not amount to even a single day.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The yogi
tends to work inwardly, focusing on the body, whereas the magus directs the will
outwardly upon the objects of the greater world. This apparent distinction is misleading,
since inner world and outer world have no dividing boundary, but are an
indivisible universe perceived by a single human mind. The ultimate goal is similar
in both practices-to master the personal universe and yoke it to the higher aspirations.”
― Donald Tyson, The Magician's Workbook: Practicing the Rituals of the Western Tradition

“When you recall a scene from your past, you're actually seeing your past self as a third person, you are taking an overhead shot of that scene. Yogis can do that with their present and future scenes too.”
― Shunya

“You are not that which you experience
Because there is always
A subject to the experience.
That subject… Is YOU!”
― SantataGamana, Kriya Yoga Exposed: The Truth About Current Kriya Yoga Gurus, Organizations & Going Beyond Kriya, Contains the Explanation of a Special Technique Never Revealed Before

“Knowing Oneself by oneself
Is using our present consciousness—oneself
To know the Infinite Consciousness—Oneself,”
― SantataGamana, Kriya Yoga Exposed: The Truth About Current Kriya Yoga Gurus, Organizations & Going Beyond Kriya, Contains the Explanation of a Special Technique Never Revealed Before

“One of the best ways to start being impatient is to stop meditating.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“His body was shriveled like a leaf that has left its tree and that has been curled by time about its natural lines.”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, The Thugs & a Courtesan

“An orgasm … is by far the most pleasurable experience. To those who once experienced an orgasm and have never meditated properly or long enough, that is.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“To make man superman, add the word ‘super’ to the word ‘man’; or meditation to his day.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Power hounds the mystic that has unified the Divine. In this state one senses ascension like a dog on heat, full of potent lust.”
― Jason Cain, Nine Paths to Enlightenment and the Six Self-Deceits: A Clear Non-Sectarian Path to Spiritual Self-Realization / Enlightenment

“True Yogis, from their seat of equipoise, ser all this World as an equal manifestation of God's creative energy—men, women, children, turnips, bedrugs, coral: it's all God in disguise. But the Yogis believe that a human life is a very special opportunity, because only in a human form and only with a human mind can God-realization ever occur. The turnips, the bedrugs, the coral—they never get a chance to find out who they really are. But we do have that chance.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Yogis living alone in mountains believe that spiritual groups do exactly opposite of what they intend to do. They become plateforms for abnormal people to come together and feel normal. These abnormal people have the potential to find God if they seek Him alone.”
― Shunya

“Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of Kriya, learn to escape into Spirit.”
― Lahiri Mahasaya

“Solve all your problems through meditation.
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.”
― Lahiri Mahasaya

“Miracle story about Lahiri Mahasaya from a woman disciple, Abhoya, from Chapter 31, titled "An Interview with the Sacred Mother", in the book "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Yogananda*:

She [Abhoya] and her husband, a Calcutta lawyer, started one day for Banaras to visit the guru. Their carriage was delayed by heavy traffic; they reached the Howrah main station in Calcutta only to hear the Banaras train whistling for departure.

Abhoya, near the ticket office, stood quietly.
"Lahiri Mahasaya, I beseech thee to stop the train!" she silently prayer. "I cannot suffer the pangs of delay in waiting another day to see thee."

The wheels of the snorting train continued to move round and round, but there was no onward progress. The engineer and passengers descended to the platform to view the phenomenon.
An English railroad guard approached Abhoya and her husband. Contrary to all precedent, the guard volunteered his services. "Babu," he said, "give me the money. I will buy your tickets while you get aboard."

As soon as the couple was seated and had received the tickets, the train slowly moved forward. In panic, the engineer and passangers clambered again to their places, knowing neither how hte train started nor why it had stopped in the first place.

Arriving at hte home of Lahiri Mahasaya in Banaras, Abhoya silently prostrated herself before the master, and tried to touch his feet.
"Compose yourself, Abhoya," he remarked. "How you love to bother me! As if you could not have come here by the next train!

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*More Lahiri Mahasaya miracle stories can be found in this chapter of this book.”
― Lahiri Mahasaya

“In sabikalpa samadhi the devotee has attained realization of his oneness with Spirit but cannot maintain his cosmic consciousness except in the immobile trance state.

By continuous meditation he reaches the superior state of nirbikalpa samadhii, in which he may move freely in the world without any loss of God-perception.

pg416, Chapter 43, The resurrection of Sri Yukteswar”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“You humans never take time for thought. Only decisions reached in calm can be sure.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“A remorseful sinner is dearer to God than a yogi proud of his yoga.”
― Swami Sharnanand ji Maharaj

“Now the world is materialistic; people follow materially successful people as their ideal. Because of this tendency, Western thoughts and ways of life have influenced our people. Our knowledge is tested on their parameters and discarded like rubbish. People are neglecting our medical knowledge and medicines. We can understand how much loss humankind is suffering from this negligence.”
― Ravi Ranjan Goswami, A New Concern

“In this modern age, people find it difficult to believe that human beings are able to fly, but such things were very common in ancient times when people had strong potentialities for spiritual attainments. Milarepa, who was a great practitioner of Heruka and Vajrayogini, at one time – as explained in his life story – told a large assembly of his disciples how he had gained the ability to fly. Through various methods, including his tummo meditation, he had released the central channel knots at his heart, navel and below the navel, and because of this he developed a very special physical suppleness that pervaded his body. This made his body extremely light, like a soft feather. At first he could only levitate but gradually he was able to move through space until finally he was able to fly like an eagle.”
― Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom