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Jan 08, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

The few who with their great devotion and good deeds who become recipients of divine grace, free themselves from likes and dislikes, the opposites of attachment and aversion, and with their purifie...

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Jan 06, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

If you read from any of the Upanishads and commentaries of Shankara and others, you find what they are trying to say is that while the intellect is a very powerful and useful weapon for us I mean a...

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Jan 05, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

If you think of one thought at a time, when one thought is gone, before the other comes, there is something. If it is not thought, it has to be something else. That something else is the consciousn...

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Jan 04, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

‘From the unreal feeling or from the unreal understanding or unreal imagination, that I am the body, may I be lifted to a plane where I may begin to understand that I am the Reality. May the realit...

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Jan 02, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

Intellect is essential but intellect has its limitations – it cannot take us to the inner. When we have to go to the core of our consciousness, we have to keep all these thoughts at bay. Keep them ...

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Jan 01, 2018 Quotations

Sri M said...

One thing you must remember. Is that the Gita is the first, the most ancient of the scriptures which have examined this question of how to approach the truth. This is the first scripture to declare...

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Dec 30, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

What happens is since the mind is always in motion, one cannot clearly see the reflection of one’s true self on it. Like the pool or the pond which has so many ripples on it. Suppose you drop a sto...

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Dec 29, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said..

The first chapter is Arjuna Vishada Yoga. It begins with the sorrow of Arjuna. This is a very very important thing to understand. Unless sorrow in some form comes about, one will not turn around an...