BABA HARI DASS QUOTES
yoga master (1923- )
Everything can be a trap. A hermit goes to a cave to get out of all worldly attachments and then gets attached to the cave. If we miss the point, then everything becomes a trap.
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The Path to Enlightenment Is Not a Highway
If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.
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attributed, Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations
Q: How many teachers did you have? A: Myself.
BABA HARI DASS
The Yellow Book
Creation is the product of bliss, and bliss is its sustainer; to bliss it returns.
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Fire without Fuel: The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass
The mind is the main instrument to gain enlightenment, but enlightenment is only reached when the mind stops. Q: How can we stop the mind? A: Not hitting it with a hammer. Stop the mind by the mind.
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Silence Speaks: from the chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass
Q: Is life a dream or a meditation? A: Life is a meditation when you know it is a dream.
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Yoga Journal, May 1977
The embodied soul has two purposes to fulfill: Experience the world, and get liberation from all experiences.
BABA HARI DAS
The Path to Enlightenment Is Not a Highway
Among creations I am the beginning, the middle, and also the end, O Arjuna, I am the science of the Self, and I am the logic of all arguments.
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Srimad Bhagavad Gita
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."
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The Yellow Book
Human birth is the highest. It is for attaining liberation. If we don't consciously try for liberation, then we are misusing our human birth.
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Everyday Peace: Letters for Life
Husband and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one.
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attributed, Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations
Don't search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.
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official website
God is the only lover and He loves in different forms -- parents, husband, wife, friend, children, animals. All are His forms and He, Himself, has no form.
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Silence Speaks: from the chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass
The Self is beyond birth, death, gender, class, and religion -- only the body wears those labels.
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Fire without Fuel: The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass
Life in the world functions by ego, attachment and desire, which gives the rise to the idea of "likes" and "dislikes". In this way the mind starts identifying all experiences in the world in terms of opposites, such as pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat.
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Srimad Bhagavad Gita
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.
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Ashtanga Yoga Primer
We cannot describe it. We cannot reveal it. And when we do, we disappear.
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introduction, The Yellow Book
The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.
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Ashtanga Yoga Primer
Work honestly,
meditate daily,
meet people without fear,
and play.
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official website
Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.
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attributed, Be Here Now, Remember