Baba Hari Das ~ 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 ~ Vishishtadvaita

Baba Hari Dass (1923 - 2018) was an Indian yoga master, silent monk, and commentator of Indian scriptural traditions of dharma and moksha. He was classically trained in the Ashtanga of Patanjali (also known as Rāja yoga), as well as Kriya yoga, Ayurveda, Samkhya, Tantra, Vedanta, and Sanskrit.
Baba Hari Dass took a vow of silence in 1952, which he upheld through this life. Although he did not speak, he was able to communicate in several languages through writing. His literary output included scriptural commentaries to Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Bhagavad Gita, Samkhya Karika, and Vedanta, yoga training materials, and a range of others writings. Upon his arrival in North America in early 1971, Baba Hari Dass and his teachings inspired the creation of several yoga centers and retreat programs in the United States in Santa Cruz County, California, and in Canada at Salt Spring Island and in Toronto.
These excerpts of Babaji's teachings were taken from the text: "Silence Speaks"(from the chalkboard of Baba Hari Das).
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[@richstureman4229]

Met this saint in mid 1970s in Coconut Grove I Florida…his eyes were like shining black diamonds…they radiated with a shining quality…a sheen that was unmistakable …a true yogi sadhu…without speaking his teachings were and are to me as clear as it could be communicated…am not A disciple, but will always consider him a true teacher🙏

[@SamaneriJayasara]

Lovely, thanks for sharing your encounter/story Rich. Yes, I can see it and feel it clearly even in a picture of him. He is radiant, and pure. The eyes don't lie. 💜💜

[@tonycrook2955]

Thank you, deeply, for sharing this

[@elizadaphne5501]

Have loved him from first seeing his photo years ago ✨🦢🙏🏼

[@robertrideout]

I had his darshan on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia in 1991 where he gave me my spiritual name of Hari Om. Due to rain, we had a talent contest where I got to sing and play my guitar for him. His eyes were so intense that I just looked down most of the time! I was blessed big time to have this experience and I'll never forget him.

[@tonycrook2955]

@@robertrideout thank you for sharing. It did something to 'me'

[@rahjtaren5769]

Depths of Gratitude as always for these gems of Eternal Love as Knowing. “My” Heart sings Harmonic Emanations as Silence, given words do not express inner feeling(s) of this Divine message. 🙏🪷🪴🙏

[@flafaloon]

You are god and you are IN god. This is how I feel and know God to be. Looking at my hands the other day, I felt a divine love for myself as a body, yet the love was coming from ‘outside or behind’ my body. My eyes became the eyes of God looking upon an image of myself which I so loved. I was both lover and loved in a split second.

[@Always-There]

Yep - God is in everything AND everything is within God. And the recognition of God is felt as Love to us. 👍

[@marianrose1259]

Love and gratitude for all you offer, dear Jayasara🧡🙏🏻🧡

[@frankens7632]

Jai Jai , Sri Sri Babaji for your true wisdom , endless gratitude for sure , , Jai Gurudev , Sanatan

[@remorossi5487]

Food for the soul

[@ai172]

Thank you so much for sharing these pearls of wisdom , Samaneri Jayasara. A few years back, I had the fortune to meet Baba at the Mount Madonna center at Santa Cruz, USA. There was a lot of distraction and a large crowd of people hustling to see him. But just one gaze at Baba and his silent presence with those shining, smiling eyes were enough to still my mind. I can never forget that moment! ♥️

[@katherine8900]

❤

[@Always-There]

In 2019 I momentarily saw God - and God really was Love. Everything was Love. Not ‘love’ in the sense of affection but a totally fundamental, all encompassing and powerful version. It wasn’t an apparition of a human form but rather everything was revealed as being God. Everything from my coffee cup to my Self. Love was a visceral substance flowing through and around everything that I could perceive or conceive, with my eyes wide open and while fully awake. I haven’t come across Baba Hari Das until this video but his description and explanation should be taken as literal and is accurate in my experience. Since my experience, the emotion that I previously knew as ‘love’ (the love you feel for a partner or your child) is far different to the Love which underlies our world. The Love that is God could be best considered as something fully tangible or scientific, (just as you would think of gravity or microwaves for example), and is the substratum & nature of existence. Yep, I know how crazy that sounds. 🙂

[@canubeatmydeck]

Yes 🙏

[@chrisjsears3608]

Thanks 😊 so clearly it is just this

[@silkwave2778]

Thank you endlessly for putting this online. In my experience, I can listen again and again to these Masters. The words are always different, pointing to the truth, which is undiscribable. But always I feel to hear this, it is worth every second, or I need to be so thankful, that I am able to hear this.....

[@dewdrop839]

Thank you for creating this, what an awesome video! Jai Babaji! My first encounter with Baba Hari Dass was at the Mount Madonna Center in 2010 when my wife had taken up an interest in Ayurveda, and learned of an open house which the College of Ayurveda was hosting up there in the redwoods of the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California, not more than 25 miles as the crow flies from the little town of Los Gatos where I grew up in the 70's, unbeknown that a saint was living nearby. As an ordinary westerner working in the tech industry, I had no context for the experiences which were to follow. I remember standing in the main building after the long drive up the winding mountain road to register for the open house at the Mount Madonna Center, and noticed a tiny office with the word "Babaji" on the door. I quizzically repeated "Babaji" in my mind, and wondered whose office this could be. Hearing some children making jubilent noises in the large room, I peered around the corner and saw him sitting there, eyes aglow, silent, peaceful, smiling. After that, I walked over to the bookstore onsite, which is quite an amazing place if you ever get a chance to go there. The bookstore was packed to the ceilings with books, texts, bowls, beads, murtis, manuals, messages and paths, and being somewhat shy I reached for what was recognizable - a copy of the book Be Here Now by Ram Dass which I remember seeing on the shelf at a spiritual bookstore in the nearby town on Mountain View down the hill in the valley, in the machine world, not far from the headquarters of Google and the rest of Silicon Valley. I purchased a copy and started leafing through it; Being somewhat familiar with the folklore of Timothy Leary, I hadn't yet known of the experiences of his partner Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), but soon learned that the Babaji that I'd just met (Baba Hari Dass) was in fact the yogi mentioned in Be Here Now whom Neem Karoli Baba had referred Alpert to nearly 40 years earlier, to learn yoga. He was reputed to be a true "forest yogi", the real deal. "Wow" I thought. Is this for real? Shortly thereafter, I found myself attending an ashtanga yoga retreat on the mountain which Babaji oversaw - apparently the last one he personally conducted. There I was, up before dawn in the freezing winter mornings, chanting mantras at a fire ceremony, watching hypnotically as one of the priests tossed all manner of preparations into the fire for how long? It could have been days, I was mesmerized and the experience was timeless. At one point, we were given an Q&A opportunity, so me, being a wordy and nerdy type, asked Babaji for the "etymology" of the word "Gayatri" in reference to the mantra we'd been practicing. He scribbled on his notepad, and his assistant said "God's song, or God singing." I didn't know what to think of that, so I looked at Babaji and said "Thank You!" and somehow, for reasons which I still cannot explain, for the next four years, I found myself chanting this 32 syllable Gayatri mantra daily, 108 times, as the first thing I did when rolling out of bed, with a set of mala beads, no matter where life would take me in the world. Me, an ordinary western dude. What was I doing? Who knows. I just went with it. "Yoga Chitta Vrittis Nirodhah'' (Yoga is control of thought waves in the mind) was Babaji's main message to me, and practicing the mantra would help me, with my very busy western mind, to calm things down just a little bit and get a every so slightly closer to the inner peace which evidently I'd been looking, without even knowing it. Then, I might understand. On another occasion, I was waiting patiently in the lobby to ask if we could someday help with the translation of his Ashtanga Yoga Primer book - which is an excellent book. As Babaji rounded the corner with his retinue, I stood in namaskar and he stopped and looked straight into my eyes - my mind went immediately empty. There it was again - that state of complete suspension of mental activity when the seer settles into their true nature, instead of continuously being identified with the trappings of the mind. For the next 10 years, I would frequent Mount Madonna, sometimes to help at the school, or attend weekend workshops, or go hiking and camping on their beautiful 455 acre retreat grounds, or purchase more copies of Ashtanga Yoga Primer to give to my friends, or just to "be there" as it seemed to be one of those places where it was okay to just Be. As a westerner in the tech profession, my opinion leaders previously were the great intellectuals, great thinkers, great orators. And here was a being, a spiritual being, who was silent for more than half a century, and all of the magic just happened around him. No effort. No thinking. No yelling. None of the great intellectuals have the ability to completely pacify the mind. Some of them have tremendous power of concentration, but none are able to take that leap of faith into the land where there are no longer any thoughts to depend upon. Insofar as I could tell, Baba Hari Dass was able to do just that, at least that is how I experienced it when I was in his presence. Just peace. And then the magic happens naturally. If you want to know more about Baba Hari Dass' earlier life, and how he came to America in the first place, his autobiography "The Path Unfolds..." just came out a few years ago. I highly recommend anyone, no matter which spiritual path you follow, to study his translations and commentaries of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Especially if you have a western mind like I do, and are trying to dig into that. Peace, Love and Om!

[@ZackOmBaz]

Thank you for sharing, I loved reading about your experiences with Babaji!

[@Always-There]

Thanks for sharing your experiences - enjoyed reading about them. Powerful video for me too.

[@devinramos6317]

Wow!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@angeloiodice9304]

very, very potent discourse. if implemented properly, one needs no further instruction.

[@alicebjorgtryggvason6833]

💞🙏🕯🌷🕯🙏💞 Thank you 🙏 thank you 🙏

[@jigold22571]

💐🕊💐❣️🔥❣️🙏🕊❣️

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

Profound purity of an enlightened being

[@AnilPant108]

🙏🕉️❤️🌹🌹🌹🙏

[@katefrancisbatista3536]

💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

[@mortalclown3812]

You bring wisdom from different oceans; your voice is a vessel by which this truth can be carried. We're grateful for the nourishment...and it seems love grows out of the transaction. Alchemy of the best kind. Selah.

[@synappticuser7296]

Am very grateful to receive these teachings - thank you 🙏🤸

[@jonathandrake9433]

Wonderful…. ! “At the center of the universe there is a Mother-Heart.” - Swami Ashokananda

[@sajidmahmood1]

Thanks for sharing

[@esneliamunoz5082]

🕉🕉🕉🙏

[@PriyaThiele]

Jai Gurudev Jai Babaji! 🙏🙏🙏

[@lavadajunerobertsroberts7772]

My heart comes alive to this voice that reads these wonderful teachings that I don't want to end! This will definitely be a repeat. Thank you so much

[@lindagumbleton6569]

❤️🙏xx

[@elizadaphne5501]

🙏🌠beautiful thank you

[@elainereader9247]

Beautiful mediation! Thank you!

[@elainereader9247]

Meditation! Not mediation

[@pps1223]

Thank you so much! 🙏

[@meeraduttagupta6318]

Such a wonderful recitation of the Truth . Sadhu 3x

[@TheNativoamericano]

Gratitude ❤️

[@tonycrook2955]

look at that face. The radiance. Once again I'm shown a Master and taken deeper into the Substrate. Thank you 🙏

[@amandatoro2810]

❤❤❤

[@mk-ue9tx]

Nothing has to be uttered 🙏 namaste samaneri ❤❤❤

[@roblaccitello3140]

🙏

[@SimplySacred]

This was a perfect meditation for today! 🙏❤️

[@marryng9168]

Thanks you Sameneri jayasara for podcast of master wisdom 🙏🙏💌

[@magetaaaaaa]

I was looking for recordings of this guy and realized that there probably aren't many because of his vow of silence. Seemed like a very interesting person.

[@lavadajunerobertsroberts7772]

Yes I've been looking for more of his work

[@davidram361]

Swami satchit anand integral yoga inxtitute.

[@sudhaumapathy375]

Wonderful reflections !

[@bigdon37]

LOVE is the realization of the non self- the interdependance of everything (emptiness). Forget pleasures and use your precious human life in a Meaningful way. Reach to enlightement through Ethics, Concentration (meditation), Wisdom for the benefits of all sentients beigns...The way of the Boddhisattva.

[@vidyarao7651]

Sai Ram --Silence equal LOVE 💞💕

[@himachalarana3454]

Namasthê for the correction. Pranâms.

[@DonBrilliard]

Love this, Jayasara - wonderful stuff 💐

[@Liza-ur4ep]

The person or persona (per sound), is the name of the mask used by actors in Greek-Roman drama. Persona or personality is the Ego, the role that the Divine energy play in human body. "You"... can not transform the ego, with "your" devotion, with "your pray", or with "your mind", because... You Don't Exist!. "Your mind" as "Your Person" , or Ego, it's just one of many masks or roles of the Divine energy that plays throughout the entire universe. Thoughts are the words of the ego, and the ego is a creation of the mind. The body and the mind is not You. It's a illusion created by the Divine. And the illusion, with the language of the mind, can not unveil Divine. The Divine is reall You, the core of being, but not as a human, man, woman, name, title, person... If "you" can first stop to think in those terms, then to stop to think at all, "You" will maybe give a chance, to your real Self, to reveal itself, to itself. 😊 .

[@anoopgauniyal3605]

20 minutes of wisdom talk not enough for me Need atleast an hour of audio from you

[@SamaneriJayasara]

Babaji is offering you an eternity of Silence - if you have the ears of the Heart to hear it. 💗💗💗

[@In2MeUcU]

Hope your retreat is going wonderfully. When will you return for a guided meditation? Much love from Florida USA 🇺🇸❣️🙏

[@SamaneriJayasara]

Hi Paul, hope you are doing okay. I will lead a session this Monday morning (Sunday afternoon USA time) and will post a community notice for it in the next few days.

[@In2MeUcU]

@@SamaneriJayasara I'm looking forward to it. You bring such tranquility in to the world with them.❤️🙏❤️