Baba Hari Dass Quotes

Contentment, compassion, and tolerance are the pillars of peace.

The ego has no form and no particular center of existence. It pervades the mind, intellect, senses, and the body as 'I am'.

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.

How many teachers did you have? A: Myself.

You have everything and you want more. It's natural in human beings. You don't need to give away your house, money, and car, and leave your family to find God. The only thing necessary is to understand attachment.

Q: Is life a dream or a meditation? A: Life is a meditation when you know it is a dream.

A person knows what he knows. An animal knows, but doesn't know what he knows. In Yoga, "I" consciousness is called asmita klesha. It is classified as an affliction and a hindrance to attaining higher consciousness.

Religion of your upbringing is like a cloak - you must know how it is made in order to take it off.

Household is a chariot. The parents are its two wheels. If the wheels don't move equally, the chariot cannot run straight.

Q: Did you start life like us with lots of demands, and what spurred you to give it up?
A: 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."

The ashram [religious hermitage] protects man from the world. Man must protect himself from the ashram.

The aim of life is to attain peace. No one can give us peace. We can't buy or borrow it. We have to cultivate it by practicing yama and niyama (yoga restraints and observances).

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.

The ego rules the mind because it links the “I” with the mind and body. If the “I,” which is another name for the self, were not identified with the mind and body, the ego would have no power. Self-study, svadhyaya, therefore, is the set of practices that investigates the nature of the self to discover its origin. When the origin is found to be separate from the body, the ego loses the battle and peace is attain.

Anything that exists will never be destroyed; its disappearance is simply a transformation.