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Mar 16, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

You must remember, when you go into a cave, you can leave everything behind but you can’t leave your mind. And yes, the problem is indeed the mind, not anything else around you.

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Mar 15, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

In ancient India, the young aspirant, the neophyte known as the ‘Brahmachari’ went to the Rishis, seeking neither wealth, nor health, nor position but pure and unconditioned freedom. This pure, unc...

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Mar 14, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

From my personal experience, I would say that the Truth is in the present, an ever-living experience, and not anything that can be gathered and stored in memory, because memory is a thing of the pa...

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Mar 13, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

We think, that with our rational brain, we can solve everything! This is one of the problems faced by man when he reads the scriptures. He feels, that with his intellect, he can explain everything....

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Mar 11, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

The whole science of meditation is a way to go beyond or to go deeper into the mind, explore the deeper recesses to come up with greater abilities and understanding so much so that the mind realize...

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Mar 10, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

What it is that we would attain in the ‘Grahastha’ phase that is different from the ‘Brahmacharya’ phase? Once you are married, you cannot take independent exclusive decisions because you have one ...

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Mar 09, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

In this material world, earning one’s living and going through all the travails of worldly existence is a very necessary step to learning about spiritual consciousness and evolving to higher levels...

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Mar 08, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

In fact, the very teaching of Buddha was freedom from sorrow for all mankind. Without having sorrow, how do you get free of it? One can’t even think of being free from sorrow if they don’t know wha...

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Mar 07, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

In the Rig Veda, it says ‘Sa Esa Vaisvaanaro Visvarupah’. This is HE, the ‘Vaisvanaara’ fire, assuming every form. HE is the life and fire who arises every day. Now ‘Vaisvanaara’ is supposed to be ...