Baba Hari Dass Short Quotes

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Teach to learn. Watch yourself before you teach.

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

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

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Faith and devotion are the foundation on which meditation is built.

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A wise person is one who sees the effect of an action before he acts.

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

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We cannot describe it. We cannot reveal it. And when we do, we disappear.

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Creation is the product of bliss, and bliss is its sustainer; to bliss it returns.

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

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

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

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Don't think that you are carrying the whole world; make it easy. Make it play, make it a prayer.

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The Self is beyond birth, death, gender, class, and religion - only the body wears those labels.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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I am the logic of all arguments - Arguments are of three kinds: arrogant argument, destructive criticism and logical argument.

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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.

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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.

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Ch. Almora District: In 1929, for the first time, I paid attention to the stories being told by older people about Sombari Maharaj and Hariakhan Maharaj.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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