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Just like pure water poured in a dirty cup becomes dirty, similarly the pure ego rooted in the impure mind becomes impure ego.
The Path to Enlightenment is not a Highway (1996)
Work honestly, meditate every day, meet people without fear, and play.
Ashtanga Yoga Primer (1981)
The ego has no form and no particular center of existence. It pervades the mind, intellect, senses, and the body as 'I am'.
The Path to Enlightenment is not a Highway (1996)
The Self is beyond birth, death, gender, class, and religion - only the body wears those labels.
Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass (1986)
Religion of your upbringing is like a cloak - you must know how it is made in order to take it off.
The Yellow Book (1974)
Creation is the product of bliss, and bliss is its sustainer; to bliss it returns.
Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass (1986)
A wise person is one who sees the effect of an action before he acts.
Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass (1986)
Faith and devotion are the foundation on which meditation is built.
Ashtanga Yoga Primer (1981)
Contentment, compassion, and tolerance are the pillars of peace.
Ashtanga Yoga Primer (1981)
The ashram [religious hermitage] protects man from the world. Man must protect himself from the ashram.
The Yellow Book (1974)
When I was six or seven, I would feel I was inside a box of earth and sky, and I would weep.
The Yellow Book (1974)
Without watching ourselves we can't be aware of the tricks the mind plays. So a yogi should be alert all the time.
Silence Speaks, from the chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass (1977)
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.
The Path to Enlightenment is not a Highway (1996)
Anything that exists will never be destroyed; its disappearance is simply a transformation.
Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass (1986)
A prisoner never stops thinking about getting out of the prison. Life in the world is like sitting in a prison. One who doesn't realize that doesn't think of getting liberation.
The Path to Enlightenment is not a Highway (1996)
Don't think that you are carrying the whole world; make it easy. Make it play, make it a prayer.
Ashtanga Yoga Primer (1981)
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.
Ashtanga Yoga Primer (1981)
In 1929, for the first time, I paid attention to the stories being told by older people about Sombari Maharaj and Hariakhan Maharaj.
Hariakhan Baba: Known, Unknown (1975)
Your body is the temple of your soul. Your soul is God's temple.
The Yellow Book (1974)
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.
Silence Speaks, from the chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass (1977)