Q: Did you start life like us with lots of demands, and wha… - Baba Hari Dass

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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."

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Baba Hari Dass (26 March 1923 - 25 September 2018) was a yoga master, a silent monk, a builder of temples, and a commentator of Indian scriptural tradition of Dharma and Moksha. He was classically trained in India in Ashtanga Yoga – Raja Yoga of Patanjali (the Yoga of Eight Limbs), as well as Kriya Yoga, Ayurveda, Samkhya, Tantra Yoga, Vedanta, and Sanskrit.

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Alternative Names: Haridas, Haridas Baba • Baba Hari Dass, Haridas, Chota Maharaji

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