“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

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master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritu… 1923–2018

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