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Feb 12, 2023 Quotations

Sri M said...

Nothing can stop Time from stealing my life.  My teacher would say, ‘When you eat your food, remember that Kaala, time is eating you.’ You can stop your watch but time won’t stop for you. Sri M's Q...

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Feb 11, 2023 Quotations

Sri M said...

When the Upanishad says ‘shad’, it means settling down the mind. If I am here and my mind is wandering somewhere else, it’s not the Upanishadic way of sitting. Sri M's Quotes are now available in r...

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Feb 10, 2023 Quotations

Sri M said...

The source of that bliss is in us.  It cannot be outside.  In the states of waking, dreaming and deep sleep, there seems to be someone who is enjoying it, who is in deep bliss. Who is this? Sri M's...

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Feb 09, 2023 Quotations

Sri M said...

When you just keep chanting ‘Who am I’ it’s just a chant and not an inquiry.  An inquiry is to find the witness in us. Perhaps that witness is the source of all that you experience, joy and pain.  ...

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Feb 08, 2023 Quotations

Sri M said...

In this humdrum existence, we pause and question due to some painful experiences ‘is this all that life is?’  Maybe there is something more and we should look for it. It’s only then that we start r...

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Feb 07, 2023 Quotations

Sri M said...

When you become aware in deep sleep then you understand the essence of life and being.  Those who have experienced this have said that it’s an all-pervading consciousness which by its very nature i...

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Feb 06, 2023 Quotations

Sri M said...

Naama Smarana is one of the easiest and the best. Along with that you should also follow the most important root discipline which is - less for the self and more others. This is the way to the spir...

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Feb 05, 2023 Quotations

Sri M said...

When the limited mind understands its limitations and says this is not the way to find it, it becomes quiet.  It is only then, there is hope that the other will make itself known. Sri M's Quotes ar...

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Feb 04, 2023 Quotations

Sri M said...

It is by itself a contradiction for the limited to seek the unlimited. When the limited understands its limitations; that is intelligence. That’s all, it need not be the intellect.  Sri M's Quotes ...

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Feb 03, 2023 Quotations

Sri M said...

The sadhak has to be very careful.  Upanishads have described the spiritual path as shurasya dhaara,  walking on the edge of a razor. You can get cut or fall this side or that. It is quite a seriou...

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Feb 02, 2023 Quotations

Sri M Said...

The Supreme Being is the connecting link between all beings, worlds and galaxies, passing through them all like a thread holding the beads together in a rosary. Sri M's Quotes are now available in ...