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Sep 14, 2022 Quotations

Sri M said...

We have many imaginary ideas about ourselves and we project them.  We see ourselves as distorted, positive and negative.  The function of the teacher is to clean the mirror and show it at...

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Sep 13, 2022 Quotations

Sri M said...

Nature has this very peculiar habit: when you run behind something, it runs away from you. If you say  I am okay whether it happens or not, then it happens. Sri M's Quotes are now available in...

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Sep 12, 2022 Quotations

Sri M said..

Humility is an inner feeling that I am just nothing.  In this vast world that is in constant movement all the time, I am a small particle like a grain of sand in the sea. The great ones know t...

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Sep 11, 2022 Quotations

Sri M said...

Sound is the beginning of everything. It is from sound that light comes, it is from sound that the entire creation takes place.  The sound that we know and can link to the primordial sound is the P...

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Sep 09, 2022 Quotations

Sri M said...

Patanjali says Yoga is chitta vritti nirodha, so vritti includes thoughts, good vrittis, bad vrittis, positive vrittis, negative ones.  What is intended is to be free of  all vrittis. Sri...

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Sep 08, 2022 Quotations

Sri M said...

All the practices in any spiritual school of thought or teaching talk about cleansing.  Cleansing means making the mind free of all distractions.    Sri M's Quotes are now available ...

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Sep 07, 2022 Quotations

Sri M said...

What is the Real? The Upanishads say that which is pure existence is real. Anything seen is only because of the observer. When one is free from all conditioning offered by the five senses, then one...

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Sep 06, 2022 Quotations

Sri M said...

Moksha and freedom should come while you are still involved in the world with maybe short periods of solitude.  Running away from fear and failure is not Moksha.  Sri M's Quotes are now a...

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Sep 05, 2022 Quotations

Sri M said...

The search for the source cannot be positively identified.  It’s only when all that is not the self is negated then only the Self remains.  It's like a sculptor trying to work on an image...