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Oct 28, 2016 Quotations

Sri M said...

Most of the time, we spend all our energies on worrying about the failure. If we could only just brush it out and retain our energies, we could move forward and look to fresher avenues. A mind that...

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Oct 27, 2016 Quotations

Sri M said...

One must understand perfectly and clearly that the only way is to make the mind still or allow the mind to settle down, to become still and not get caught up in the confusion of this or that or thi...

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Oct 26, 2016 Quotations

Sri M said...

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

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Oct 25, 2016 Quotations

Sri M said...

As you read the Upanishads, you will find in many places, that the seeker of the truth is addressed ‘Satya Kama’. It could be a name, but then Sanskrit is an ancient language and every name has a m...

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Oct 24, 2016 Quotations

Sri M said...

The experience of happiness is innate, not in the object that I enjoy. The object may although be necessary to excite it or bring it out. Therefore, Vedanta says: the source of all happiness is wit...

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Oct 23, 2016 Quotations

Sri M said...

So, all this fear of what will happen if I let go of my petty little self, with its petty little world (mainly of my own creation) is meaningless. It is merely the ignorant little ego trying to mak...

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Oct 22, 2016 Quotations

Sri M said...

“Sat-chit-ananda” is a three-syllable word— ‘Sat’, ‘Chitta’ and ‘Ananda’. ‘Sat’ meaning reality, ‘Chitta’ meaning consciousness and ‘Ananda’ means bliss (not ordinary happiness which has an end). T...

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Oct 21, 2016 Quotations

Sri M said...

The ‘One’ who is behind all thought and action is witness to everything — the unaffected witness to all that takes place. The ‘One’ cannot be reached by any of our known modes of communication.