Baba Hari Dass Quotes

Your body is the temple of your soul. Your soul is God's temple.

Having made pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat the same, you engage in battle for the sake of battle; thus you shell win and not incur sin. (Bhagavad Gita, Ch II, verse 38) Here, Sri Krishna is saying that if Arjuna has neither desire for heaven nor for sovereignty over the earth, then he should achieve equanimity of the mind. With equanimity of the mind one can achieve success in the war of life. Without it, one cannot remain unaffected by the pairs of opposites and will be continually tossed about by the waves of egocentric likes and dislikes.

Making separate groups is human nature. No matter how much we talk about universal unity, we end up making another group.

Using siddhis (powers) is not good for those who possess them. It can also trap the mind into desires. By being pure in mind siddhis will come by itself, and a yogi should not try to show his powers. First thing is to have siddhis and then not to get trapped in siddhis.

Work honestly, meditate every day, meet people without fear, and play.

Without watching ourselves we can't be aware of the tricks the mind plays. So a yogi should be alert all the time.

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

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.

..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.

To get out of the rut is not one day's job or one hour in a day or going to temples, churches or mosques on particular days. We have to reflect on all our thoughts all the time and turn the outgoing mind inward in every second of life.

Yoga is defined as a method – the process of nirodha (mental control) – by which union (the goal of yoga) is achieved. Yoga is therefore both the process of nirodha and the unqualified state of niruddha (the perfection of that process). The word yoga (union) implies duality (as in joining of two things or principles); the result of yoga is the nondual state..., or as the union of the lower self and higher Self. The nondual state is characterized by the absence of individuality; it can be described as eternal peace, pure love, Self-realization, or liberation.

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

Q: How can we stop the mind?
A: Not hitting it with a hammer. Stop the mind by the mind.

Pleasure has desire in it. Desire is pain. There is no satisfaction. So pleasure is pain.

Greed is a sickness of the mind. The more one hoards, the more greed increases. Giving with no expectation eliminates greed.