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Context: Control of the mind can be achieved by understanding yourself, the aim and the energy which is blocking us from progressing. Between God and the Self, the blocking energy is the ego. If the ego is pulled toward the world, it makes a wall. If the same ego is pulled toward God, it makes a ladder.
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“Yoga is defined as a method – the process of nirodha”
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book I, 1999
Context: 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. (Sutra 2, Bk I, p.5)
“Pleasure has desire in it. Desire is pain. There is no satisfaction. So pleasure is pain.”
Source: The Yellow Book, 1974, p.65
Source: The Path to Enlightenment is not a Highway, 1996, p.65
“Anything that exists will never be destroyed; its disappearance is simply a transformation.”
Source: Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass, 1986, p.18
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book I, 1999
Context: 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. (Sutra 2, Bk I, p.5)
“Teach to learn. Watch yourself before you teach.”
Source: The Yellow Book, 1974, p.55
Source: The Yellow Book, 1974, p.13
“A person knows what he knows. An animal knows, but doesn't know what he knows”
Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass, 1986
Context: 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. 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. (p.36-7)
Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Ch. I-VI, 2013
Context: In this verse Lord Krishna advises Arjuna how to fight the battle he is trying to avoid. Life in the world functions by ego, attachment and desire, which gives the rise to the idea of “likes” and “dislikes”. In this way the mind starts identifying all experiences in the world in terms of opposites, such as pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat... 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.
The Yellow Book, 1974
Context: 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." (p.33)
“Creation is the product of bliss, and bliss is its sustainer; to bliss it returns.”
Source: Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass, 1986, p.14
“The Self is beyond birth, death, gender, class, and religion - only the body wears those labels.”
Source: Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass, 1986, p.27
“We cannot describe it. We cannot reveal it. And when we do, we disappear.”
Introduction
The Yellow Book, 1974
Desire: (p.23)
The Path to Enlightenment is not a Highway, 1996
“Contentment, compassion, and tolerance are the pillars of peace.”
Source: Ashtanga Yoga Primer, 1981, p.58
Source: Silence Speaks, from the chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass, 1977, p.15
“What is mind? A heap of thoughts.”
Source: Silence Speaks, from the chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass, 1977, p.14
“Don't think that you are carrying the whole world; make it easy. Make it play, make it a prayer.”
Source: Ashtanga Yoga Primer, 1981, p.2