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"1967 I met my Guru. That meeting changed the course of my life, for through him I came to perceive my life in spiritual terms. In him I found new depths of compassion, love, wisdom, humor and power, and his actions stretched my understanding of the human possibility. I recognized in him an alliance of the human and the divine." Miracle of Love- by Ram Dass

"From the beginning I had wanted to share him with others, but initially he forbade me bringing people directly to him. A relatively few (several hundred) Westerners nevertheless found their way  to him and were touched at the core of their beings as I had been". Be Here Now- by Ram Dass

Babaji used to say, "By taking the name of Ram, everything is accomplished. In this Kali Yuga, nobody can go for kundalini yoga; they should take the name of Ram." This was Babaji's way of scattering the seeds and giving mantra.   -By Taking the Name of Ram

One morning Babaji was in his small room in Kainchi. A sadhu with a half-dozen of his disciples came for Baba's darshan. I took them to his room. After they had taken their seat, Babaji said, "This is Mahant Digvijaynath, a great saint. Bow at his feet." When another person came, Babaji made him bow as well. Babaji smiled and asked people to bow low to the saint instead of touching his own feet. But when the third one came and Babaji repeated his words, the Mahant stood up and clasping Babaji's feet, with tears in his eyes, said, "Baba, you are the saint of saints sitting before us, and you are making people touch my feet, taking me to be a saint."

"A saint can be known only by one who himself is a saint." That is what has been said by the wise. So we cannot have - at least speaking for myself - any pretension of knowing Babaji, the great saint. In the Bbagavat Gita we learn that a saint is a person with a dual personality - the divine and the human. Many of us have seen the human person in Babaji, but that doesn't mean that we can claim to have seen the divine person in him.

In a saint, the divine person is encased in the human frame but is not entirely identical. The bottom of the human and the top of the divine stand far apart from each other. There is a co-mingling in the inner space, and in noble human beings, some of the divine qualities merge entirely with their human qualities, destroying all distinction between human and divine. I am saying this about Baba from my own experience of him- I have never seeing him wearing his divine crown, but I have always seen his divine qualities of love and compassion. He was always ready and alert to mitigate the sufferings of the helpless by taking their pains upon himself. His body became a honeycomb of diseases. This was the price he had to pay for his compassion and his readiness to help.  -by Dada Mukerjee

On September 11, 1973, he died, or, as the Indians would say, he left his body. In the succeeding years, I have found that the absence of his body has not diminished his influence upon my life. With each passing year I have increasingly experience his presence , his guidance, his love, and each time I have taken myself too seriously, his cosmic giggle .This suggested the possibility of others who have never "met" him in his body could similarly be touched by him. This suspicion has been confirmed by a surprisingly large number of people....have experienced him in a way that has graced their lives. -Ram Dass