Baba Hari Dass

Baba Hari Dass (Punjabi: ਬਾਬਾ ਹਰੀਦਾਸ) was born in 1923 near Almora, India. He is a silent monk and guru who was classically trained in the tradition of Ashtanga Yoga. He has maintained a continual vow of silence since 1952. He and his teachings have inspired the Mount Madonna Center near Santa Cruz, California, The Salt Spring Centre in British Columbia and the Sri Ram Ashram in Haridwar, India. Baba Hari Dass was initiated into the Vairagi Vashnava order in 1942 by Baba Raghubar Dassji Maharaj, a renunciate and Sanskrit scholar.

Baba Hari Dass first came to the attention of the West in the book by Baba Ram Dass, Be Here Now. Maharaj-ji (Neem Karoli Baba) instructed Ram Dass to receive teachings from Baba Hari Dass who taught Ram Dass in silence only using a chalkboard.

In similar nonverbal fashion, Baba Hari Dass agreed to mentor his pregnant student Jeannine Parvati's prenatal Yoga, and supported her intuition to continue practicing asanas in some way, despite the traditionally male yogic proscriptions against it. From this, the first book in the Western world on the subject, Prenatal Yoga & Natural Childbirth was published in 1974.

Books

• The Yellow Book: The Sayings of Baba Hari Dass
• Silence Speaks: From the Chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass (ISBN 0-918100-19-4)
• Hariakhan Baba (ISBN 0-918100-00-3)
• Ashtanga Yoga Primer (ISBN 0-918100-04-6)
• Child's Garden of Yoga (ISBN 0-918100-02-X)
• Mystic Monkey (ISBN 0-918100-05-4)
• Fire With Out Fuel (ISBN 0-918100-08-9)
• Vinaya Chalisa: Forty Prayers (ISBN 0-918100-16-X)
• Everyday Peace: Letters for Life (ISBN 0-918100-21-6)
• The Path to Enlightenment is Not a Highway (ISBN 0-918100-18-6)
• "The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: A Study Guide for book I Samadhi pada" (ISBN 0-918100-20-8)
• "The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali : A Study Guide for book II Sadhana Pada" (ISBN 978-0-918100-23-8)
• "Sweeper to Saint:Stories of Holy India"

External links

• The Hanuman Fellowship
• Mount Madonna Center