Baba Hari Dass quotes

Work honestly, meditate everyday, meet people without fear and play. (Baba Hari Dass)
Pleasure has desire in it. Desire is pain. There is no satisfaction. So pleasure is pain.
Baba Hari Dass
Anything that exists will never be destroyed; its disappearance is simply a transformation.
Baba Hari Dass
Teach to learn. Watch yourself before you teach.
Baba Hari Dass
Religion of your upbringing is like a cloak - you must know how it is made in order to take it off.
Baba Hari Dass
Creation is the product of bliss, and bliss is its sustainer; to bliss it returns.
Baba Hari Dass
The Self is beyond birth, death, gender, class, and religion - only the body wears those labels.
Baba Hari Dass
We cannot describe it. We cannot reveal it. And when we do, we disappear.
Baba Hari Dass
Greed is a sickness of the mind. The more one hoards, the more greed increases. Giving with no expectation eliminates greed.
Baba Hari Dass
Contentment, compassion, and tolerance are the pillars of peace.
Baba Hari Dass
Q: How do you define ego? A: Ego is life. To keep the body's existence is ego. It is the part of the mind which identifies a creature with the world. Ego self tells you, "This is my body,” and also tells you, "This is my Self.” It connects the two. (Baba Hari Dass)
What is mind? A heap of thoughts.
Baba Hari Dass
The ashram [religious hermitage] protects man from the world. Man must protect himself from the ashram.
Baba Hari Dass
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.
Baba Hari Dass
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.
Baba Hari Dass
Ch. Almora District: In 1929, for the first time, I paid attention to the stories being told by older people about Sombari Maharaj and Hariakhan Maharaj.
Baba Hari Dass
The embodied soul has two purposes to fulfill: Experience the world, and get liberation from all experiences. If the self were not in bondage then the two purposes would not be fulfilled.
Baba Hari Dass
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.
Baba Hari Dass
Within the physical body every human being has a subtle body made up of invisible structures and energies (kundalini, nadis, and chakras); and within the subtle is the causal body out of which the subtle and physical bodies are formed.
Baba Hari Dass
A wise person is one who sees the effect of an action before he acts.
Baba Hari Dass
Faith and devotion are the foundation on which meditation is built. (Baba Hari Dass)
All sadhanas or methods are for simply tricking the mind. The trick is to not let the mind spread out in a form of thoughts.
Baba Hari Dass
How many teachers did you have? A: Myself.
Baba Hari Dass
Q: Is life a dream or a meditation? A: Life is a meditation when you know it is a dream.
Baba Hari Dass
If you had only two words to say to the people of the world, what would they be? Attain Peace.
Baba Hari Dass