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Feb 26, 2020 Quotations

Sri M said...

Whatever potentialities that you have, whatever karmas that you performed, whatever likes and dislikes you have, most people don’t end their likes and dislikes by the time they die. It’s still ther...

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Feb 25, 2020 Quotations

Sri M said...

The Gita says it beautifully saying, when the soul leaves the body and goes off carrying the seeds of it’s karmas like the wind carrying the fragrance of the flowers, you can’t see it, but it is th...

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Feb 23, 2020 Quotations

Sri M said...

The best thing would be to move forward in spiritual training or sadhana till we are in a position to see if we are something other than the body. If we are other than the body, then surely somewhe...

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Feb 22, 2020 Quotations

Sri M said...

Shiva is a perfect example, perfect representation of a yogi. Which of the Gods sits cross legged with eyes closed but Shiva. So that meditative posture in which these two eyes are closed, which me...

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Feb 21, 2020 Quotations

Sri M said...

The whole process of sublimating the lower to the higher is the meaning of ‘Shivaratri’. To free oneself from temptation, to be totally attached to the highest so when you touch that there is no mo...

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Feb 20, 2020 Quotations

Sri M said...

Kashi is called the city of light. To see the light, first we need to decondition ourselves, free from all the preconceived ideas stuffed into us. Take it all out.  

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Feb 19, 2020 Quotations

Sri M said...

If this little ‘I’, when it completely disappears when it becomes the ‘I’ of the little child, then you’ll know what is ‘Turiya’. When we reach close to it, ‘you’ are not there anymore. There is on...

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Feb 18, 2020 Quotations

Sri M said...

If you really want to have an anubhava (experience) of that Turiya, This little ‘I’, which says I am so and so, I am this, I know this, I don’t know this, I studied this, which also has attractions...

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Feb 17, 2020 Quotations

Sri M said...

The recognition of Turiya is Self-recognition. It’s not as if a third party is recognized. In the state called Turiya, Turiya itself is the witness of itself. There is no other entity out there to ...