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Mar 01, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

The best thing is – better than not doing your duties is to do your duties. But don’t neglect your spiritual journey; keep that up seriously, so that when you are mature enough, you are out of it. ...

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Feb 28, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

Don’t think that the spiritual teacher should be like this….if he’s not like this, then he is not a spiritual teacher. This is not true because there may be many reasons for which a spiritual Maste...

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Feb 27, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

The root sorrow is the wrong identity. One thinks one is the body. And being body oriented, one gets all the sorrows. One experiences sorrows because anything that happens to the body and anything ...

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Feb 26, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

I am saying if that desire or intense desire to be free of suffering arises in a human mind, that mind need not be an extraordinary intellectual or any such thing. It can be just an ordinary person...

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Feb 24, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

Actually, if you are a practitioner of yoga or sadhana, your attention becomes very, very good. You are able to concentrate fully on whatever activity that you are doing. If your complete concentra...

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Feb 23, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

Most of the time we spend all our energies on worrying about failure. If we could only just brush it out and retain our energies – we could move forward and look at fresher avenues.  A mind which i...

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Feb 22, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

Praying is a beautiful psychological exercise where you deep down want to come out of the circumstances which are limiting your progress.  And not finding that in the present conditioned mind,  try...

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Feb 21, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

Freedom is our birth right. Our true self, the atman is free; it does not need to be freed from anything. It is free because it is complete, ‘poorna’. ‘Poornamadah’ that completeness is actually yo...

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Feb 20, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

Those who have transcended the external rites of religion, they should begin to look within to find the true essence. This is very essential because without the true essence, sometime or the other,...

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Feb 19, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

The highest function of the intelligence, according to the Upanishads is to realise its limitations and when it realises its limitations it just keeps quiet. It knows, ‘I’m very useful in this and ...