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Pleasure has desire in it. Desire is pain. There is no satisfaction. So pleasure is pain.

— Baba Hari Dass

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Pleasure has desire in it. Desire is pain. There is no satisfaction. So pleasure is pain." in the context of "p.65" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Source: Wikiquote: "Baba Hari Dass" (Quotes, The Yellow Book (1974): Lama Foundation, San Cristobal, NM; and Sufi Community Press, Tucson, 1974.) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
Baba Hari Dass

About Baba Hari Dass

Baba Hari Dass (26 March 1923 - 25 September 2018) was a yoga master, a silent monk, a builder of temples, and a commentator of Indian scriptural tradition of Dharma and Moksha. He was classically trained in India in Ashtanga Yoga – Raja Yoga of Patanjali (the Yoga of Eight Limbs), as well as Kriya Yoga, Ayurveda, Samkhya, Tantra Yoga, Vedanta, and Sanskrit.