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Oct 23, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said....

Outwardly we can bring about a response. We can help the poor to become better. All that is social work. But we believe that ultimately one would get the sense of equality only when there is a spir...

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Oct 22, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said

Greed transfers itself even into the so-called spiritual system. I call this ‘spiritual materialism’. I don’t think real teachers are for sale. You can give a teacher millions of dollars. I don’t t...

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Oct 21, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said....

Through the practice of mysticism, whether it is Sufi, Yogic or Buddhist one, can awaken the centers that become active when you are in deep meditation. Only when these centers are awakened is ther...

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Oct 20, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said....

The human brain somehow seems to be wired for spiritual experience. Certain centers in the brain become active when you are in deep meditation. These are the centers thatyoga and Vedanta have talke...

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Oct 19, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said....

Experiencing life through the sorrows and the pleasures, the pains and the happiness that the body and the mind go through, one evolves into a better and cleaner entity before it touches a level th...

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Oct 18, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said....

When the mind becomes quiet and silent, the aim of all forms of meditation – one comes face-to-face with one’s consciousness. This is a part of all human beings irrespective of caste, creed, religi...

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Oct 17, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said....

The Upanishad says that Supreme Truth or Reality is not a thing in the past – it is right Here and Now! Because it is right here, all our acquired knowledge cannot be applied to that Supreme Being....

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Oct 16, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said....

What I am saying is that there is nothing to fear. To live with this understanding is what is called holistic living. It is to live with the understanding that the entire universe is pervaded by th...

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Oct 15, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said....

The world is such a funny place – you try to chase something and it always seems to run away from you…you leave it and it tries to follow you! It happens. Vishwamitra goes off to the forest for tap...