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Feb 17, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

Most of the activities of the world that we perform, based on the assumption that we are the body, bind us down to the earth. Karma Yoga is the theory or teaching which says, that if you can act kn...

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Feb 16, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

If one understands that one is not the body but the inner self which is consciousness, then one begins to understand how to deal with sorrow. But unless and until some kind of sorrow comes, one doe...

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Feb 15, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

Suppose I decide that the sorrow and the problems of the world are too much for me, and I run away to the Himalayas or somewhere else, I still can’t run away from my mind. I can physically run away...

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Feb 14, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

Every practitioner of spiritual exercise should keep in mind -that when you practice and go deeper and deeper, all the tendencies that have been hidden in your subconscious mind till now-bottled up...

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Feb 13, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

Shivarathri, traditionally, is supposed to be the day when Samudra Manthan was done and the poison came out. You know that story of the churning of the ocean-the Manthan- and when the churning took...

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Feb 12, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

When the mind churns in meditation which means, when you delve deeper and deeper into the layers of your mind, the first thing that comes out is not Amrit. The first thing that comes out is poison ...

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Feb 10, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

They say Adinath dances his Tandav Nritya. When he dances his Tandav Nritya, he destroys images. He explodes all the images that we have created and nothing new can come up. Like death destroys the...

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Feb 09, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

True consciousness means to go beyond all images – not images that you see around you – but the images that we build up in our minds and the Tandav nritya is a beautiful expression of the breaking ...