"When I was building Kenchi Ashram, which is in Nainital District, I was told by the villagers that Hariakhan Maharaj used to live in a cave there. I preserved that cave, which is behind Hanuman Temple at Kenchi."

"The world is an abstract art. We see it as we want to see it. It is a garden of roses and it is also a forest of thorny bushes and poison oak."

"Teach to learn. Watch yourself before you teach."

"Pleasure has desire in it. Desire is pain. There is no satisfaction. So pleasure is pain."

"Your body is the temple of your soul. Your soul is God's temple."

"Using siddhis (powers) is not good for those who possess them. It can also trap the mind into desires. By being pure in mind siddhis will come by itself, and a yogi should not try to show his powers. First thing is to have siddhis and then not to get trapped in siddhis."

"The ashram [religious hermitage] protects man from the world. Man must protect himself from the ashram."

"Religion of your upbringing is like a cloak - you must know how it is made in order to take it off."

"How many teachers did you have? A: Myself."

"Q: Did you start life like us with lots of demands, and what spurred you to give it up? A: When I was six or seven, I would feel I was inside a box of earth and sky, and I would weep. Once I asked my mother: "Take me out of this box of earth and sky." She said, "I can't." Then I said, "I'm going.""

"We cannot describe it. We cannot reveal it. And when we do, we disappear."

"..it was well known to people (in Kumoan villages) that Babaji Maharaj's (Hariakhan Baba) age was several thousand years and that he was present at the War of Mahabharata at the time of Krishna."

"When a person realizes peace inside by doing yoga, he will not smoke and get peace disturbed. The peace obtained by yoga is much higher than the pleasure of smoking."

"In 1929, for the first time, I paid attention to the stories being told by older people about Sombari Maharaj and Hariakhan Maharaj."

"When the soul has become limpid,"

"No part belonging to any single one of (all) rational beings will be lost,"

"Let us beware in ourselves, my beloved,"

"The life of solitaries is higher than this world"

"And it is clear that He does not abandon them the moment they fall,"

"Now when the intellect has been illumined, even just a little,"

"So then, let us not attribute to God's actions and His dealings with us any idea of requital."

"converse and not working with any of the realities here below,"

"By saying that He will even hand us over to burning for the sake of sufferings, torment and all sorts of ills,"

"By prayer I do not mean only the fixed Hours, the Hullale of the psalter and the liturgical hymns."

"When someone receives all the time an awareness of these mysteries,"

"This is the consummation of the (ascetic) life in the body (that takes place) on the level of the soul,"

"When someone reaches insights into creation on the path of his ascetic life,"

"Mysteries are revealed,"

"What then shall we say?"

"There are times when a person sits in a stillness that is guarded and wakeful,"

"It is a matter for even more astonishment in the case of those who,"

"For every event, natural being and utterance in this creation there is a Sanctuary and a Holy of Holies."

"So these are the different kinds of paths which discerning solitaries follow,"

"When it sometimes happens that a person is held worthy of prayer of fervour as a result of the surging of grace,"

"Prayer, however, is lower in rank than being stirred in spirit: on this there is no dispute, for prayer is inferior to this mystery."

"Just as there is nothing which resembles God,"

"What is conversation with God?"

"When he is held worthy of the prayer of understanding,"

"Thus, as I have said, there are many paths for this converse which exists with God in stillness,"

"When in these matters you receive the power which stems from grace to be bound firmly to their continual stirrings,"

"On the sequence of ways by which the mind is steered towards the glorious things pertaining to God."

"And when, again, he departs from these things,"

"The mode of conduct of this (present) life provides (an opening) for the functioning of the senses,"

"Or maybe there is someone who imagines that the level and the stirring of spiritual prayer consists in one of these things."

"Again, there is the person who has reached perfection on the level of the soul,"

"By stillness of the body and ceasing from this world,"

"Once a person has, through divine assistance, become recollected from external concerns,"

"There is a spiritual perception which is born out of meditation;"

"It can also happen that from time to time a certain stillness, without any insights, can fall upon a person,"

"When the solitary has passed on to another"