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Mar 26, 2026 Quotations

Sri M said ...

In the Yoga Vasistha, Vasistha says to Rama, “A person who thinks everything is destined and doesn't put in any self-effort is equivalent to a donkey.” We always say it’s destiny when there is some...

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Mar 25, 2026 Quotations

Sri M said ...

The experience of happiness is innate, not in the object that l enjoy. The object may although be necessary to excite it or bring it out. Therefore, Vedanta says -  the source of all happiness is w...

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Mar 23, 2026 Quotations

Sri M said ...

Don’t carry your anger and hatred,  stupidity and poisonous feelings against others from one day to the next. When we go to sleep, can we leave it there and get up fresh in the morning and say, ‘Th...

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Mar 22, 2026 Quotations

Sri M said ...

You have a slate and you write on it.  Every time you write on it, if you want to write anything else, you have to rub it off.   Otherwise you can neither read it, nor is there space to write anyth...

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Mar 21, 2026 Quotations

Sri M said ...

The practice of yoga is the way of finding that happiness which is our true identity.  We discover that we are not what we think we are, but something entirely different. Swami Vivekananda explaine...

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Mar 20, 2026 Quotations

Sri M said ...

Babaji used to say, ‘The seeds have been planted, they have been sown but no seed will become a tree and bear fruit in three days, it takes its own time’.  So sow the seed, keep the climate clear, ...

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Mar 19, 2026 Quotations

Sri M said ...

Intelligence has to realize that from a point, it’s function is over and allow something else to take over. That instrument of perception that takes over is known as intuition, Jnana Drishti.