Baba Hari Dass
| Baba Hari Dass बाबा हरि दास |
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| Religion | Hinduism |
| Founder of | Sri Ram Orphanage, Haridwar, India; Hanuman Fellowship; Mount Madonna Center; Dharmasara, Salt Spring Centre, Vancouver; Ashtanga Yoga Institute; Mount Madonna Institute; Mount Madonna School |
| Philosophy | Ashtanga Yoga, Kriya Yoga, Ayurveda, Samkhya, Tantra, Vedanta |
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| Nationality | Indian |
| Born | Hari Datt Karnataka 26 March 1923 Almora, near Nainital, Uttar Pradesh (Uttarakhand), India |
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| Guru | Baba Raghubar Dassji Maharaj |
| Literary works | Baba Hari Dass bibliography |
| Influenced | Ma-Renu, Ananad Dass, Gregory Bateson, Tom Harpur, Stephen Levine, Jack Kornfield, Bhagavan Das, Ram Dass, Jeannine Parvati, Michael Tierra, Prem Das, Mahamandaleshwar Swami Shankarananda, Dr. Vasant Lad |
| Other names | Haridas; Chota Maharaji |
Work Honestly, Meditate everyday, Meet people without fear, And play
The aim of life is to live in peace
Don't think that you are carrying the whole world; make it easy; make it a play; make it a prayer;
Baba Hari Dass (Devanagari: बाबा हरि दास); born 26 March 1923 in Almora near Nainital, Uttar Pradesh, now Uttarakhand, India, is a yoga master, a silent monk, and a commentator of Indian scriptural tradition of Dharma and Moksha. He was classically trained in Ashtanga Yoga – Raja Yoga of Patanjali (the Yoga of Eight Limbs), as well as Kriya Yoga, Ayurveda, Samkhya, Tantra Yoga, Vedanta, and Sanskrit.
Born into the 13th generation of a Kumaoni Karnatak Brahmin family, in the lunar month of Chaitra, in Shukla Paksha (Rama Navami), he is also an author, playwright, martial arts teacher, sculptor and builder of temples. Upon his arrival in the US in the early 1971, he and his teachings inspired creation of several yoga centers and retreat programs in California and in Canada. His extensive literary output includes scriptural commentaries to Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Samkhya Karika, and Vedanta, collections of wisdom aphorisms about the meaning and purpose of life, essays, plays, short stories, children's stories, kirtan mantras, and in-depth instructional yoga materials that form the basis of a yoga certification-training program.
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