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There is always a chance for a person to break out of the cycle, but there is no such chance for an animal unless it incarnates as a human and develops "I" consciousness.
Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass (1986)
Making separate groups is human nature. No matter how much we talk about universal unity, we end up making another group.
The Path to Enlightenment is not a Highway (1996)
Teach to learn. Watch yourself before you teach.
The Yellow Book (1974)
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.
The Yellow Book (1974)
Greed is a sickness of the mind. The more one hoards, the more greed increases. Giving with no expectation eliminates greed.
The Path to Enlightenment is not a Highway (1996)
Knowledge, action, and actor are declared in the science of the gunas to be of three kinds only, according to distinctions of gunas; hear them also duly.
Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Ch. XIII-XVIII (2015)
Everything can be a trap. A hermit goes to a cave to get out of all worldly attachments and then gets attach to the cave. If we miss the point, then everything becomes a trap.
The Path to Enlightenment is not a Highway (1996)
No religion can grant enlightenment or salvation. Your own faith, devotion, and love for God can bring about enlightenment. Your spiritual practices and your desire to attain God are the main thing.
Q: Babji, if you had only two words to say to the people of the world, what would they be?
A: Attain Peace.
Household is a chariot. The parents are its two wheels. If the wheels don't move equally, the chariot cannot run straight.
The Path to Enlightenment is not a Highway (1996)
Q: How can we stop the mind?
A: Not hitting it with a hammer. Stop the mind by the mind.
Silence Speaks, from the chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass (1977)
Q: How are peace and happiness related? Is peace the only real happiness?
A: When happiness moves beyond the mind, that is happiness.
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.
Ashtanga Yoga Primer (1981)
How many teachers did you have? A: Myself.
The Yellow Book (1974)
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.
Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Ch. VII-XII (2014)
Pleasure has desire in it. Desire is pain. There is no satisfaction. So pleasure is pain.
The Yellow Book (1974)
..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.
Hariakhan Baba: Known, Unknown (1975)
Q: Is it possible for us to identify with the Self rather than the ego? A: Without knowing the ego, we can't even touch the Self.
What is mind? A heap of thoughts.
Silence Speaks, from the chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass (1977)
Traditional Hindu depiction of Patanjali as an avatar of the divine serpent Shesha, regarded as the first compilation of the formal yoga philosophy of Yoga Sutras.