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Jan 30, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

Remove all the conditions that are there and remain in one essential state and this is the aim of the vedantic teaching. One discovers that One is not this body or the mind but the inner self, the ...

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Jan 27, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

The Bhagvad Gita says wherever there is a manifestation of goodness, energy, power, position, status and knowledge – especially knowledge – it is a manifestation of the Supreme Being. But, it may b...

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Jan 26, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

Look inside our minds and we will see we have hundreds of images and it’s because of these images we get hurt, our ego expands and we have so many problems! “I believe that I am an intelligent man”...

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Jan 24, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

At the end of the 18th chapter in Bhagwad Gita, Krishna declares, “Now that you have understood everything, relax. Let go and rejoice! Do your things. Carry on. Nothing is going to happen. The roof...

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Jan 23, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

Imagination or visualization is a divine capacity given to the human mind by which it can visualize and create reality out of its visualizations. This is because it derives its capacity to create f...

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Jan 22, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

The first chapter of Bhagwad Gita is ‘Arjuna Vishada Yoga’—it begins with the sorrow of Arjuna. This is an important thing to understand. One will not turn around and try to find the truth behind t...

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Jan 21, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

The Buddhists use the term ‘paraa gati’ to mean ‘one who has walked across’ or ‘one who has gone beyond’. Such a person is called ‘Bodhi’—meaning one who has the ‘bodh’. ‘Paraa gati paraa sangati b...

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Jan 20, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

The ‘Tandav Nritya’ of Shiva is meant to free you from all the conditioning, all the images, all the attractions and repulsions that keep you rooted to the understanding that you are a different in...

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Jan 19, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

The root sorrow is about the wrong identity. One thinks one is the body. Being body-oriented, one becomes vulnerable to sorrows. One experiences the sorrows because anything that happens to the bod...

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Jan 18, 2017 Quotations

Sri M said...

When we have to go to the core of our consciousness, we have to keep all these thoughts at bay. Keep them away, go deep within and try to find out. Nothing should be allowed to intrude. A great mas...