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Jan 19, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

I look at this world and I see, through ordinary common sense, that it is not permanent. It is not permanent, it is temporary and what is temporary cannot be real. Everything is getting destroyed. ...

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Jan 18, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

Prasna Upanishad is an Upanishad which questions and does not accept but questions before accepting. And that should be the hallmark of all enquiries. Not believe because somebody said so, but ques...

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Jan 17, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

Now, from the point of view of spiritual evolution, the greatest duty of an intelligent human being is to find the Truth. And, religions have made the duties of a human being so that we may stay to...

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Jan 16, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

However much we may try …because the brain is a very limited organism and we get limited inputs. All that the brain can think of and decide and conclude is from the information that it gets – the i...

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Jan 15, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

We have not changed. You see – the way of doing things has been polished and perfected. That’s what intellectual life has taken us to. There are other good things – we have found medicines for dise...

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Jan 13, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

How many people search for the Truth? Very few. Actually, in the Bhagvad Gita there is a beautiful statement. Krishna says, ‘Among millions of people one turns to the spiritual path. Among millions...

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Jan 12, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

According to the Vedantic teaching or according to what Ramana Maharishi said….who was, I think, one of the latest contemporary teachers of Vedanta who had the experience of it. He said that when y...

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Jan 11, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

The path which has been described by all the important teachers, unfortunately, happens to be narrow – not because of any narrowness in thinking but because the other paths are so wide and inviting...

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Jan 10, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

For a spiritual search, you need not belong to any particular section. It is an individual, personal affair. There is no need to be affiliated to anything – but be free from it. As far as spiritual...

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Jan 09, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

When I am clear, when I have not a single thought touching my mind, when I can control what thought I want, that is not fantasizing. Fantasizing automatically means replacing reality with something...