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Nov 25, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said...

Now, the rishis and yogis who have gone into this subject have said that there is something called the mind, but there is no language to it. There is thought which has no language and that is the c...

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Nov 24, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said...

Thinking itself is the mind. When there are thoughts, automatically there is the mind. Therefore, it’s implied where there is no thought there is no mind, in the ordinary sense of the term.

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Nov 23, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said...

Best ‘satsang’ is to do meditation and ‘japa’, visit temples and holy places. But the mind still asks questions; so we have to try and answer those questions intellectually.

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Nov 22, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said...

Based on what I have learnt from my experience, suddenly everything grinds to a halt and there is a blank; my suggestion is that, don’t try to escape or run away from it. That is our primordial sta...

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Nov 21, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said...

Vedanta says: “Yes, the object exists, of course, but it may not be a cube or a globe or a cone or a rectangle or what you think it is because whatever you think, it is always the result of your re...

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Nov 19, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said...

It is, in that utter stillness, the Truth comes into being. One understands one’s true reality. It is as if all the impurities, or all the agitations, or all the modifications of the mind have been...

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Nov 18, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said...

Suppose our instrument of perception, in this case the eye, is made like a telescope or a microscope, our view of the universe would be entirely different. The cube that you see before you will be ...

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Nov 17, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said...

The most important kind of meditation is when a human being, one day, realises that the whole circus that is going on around him, this whole world that he has built up around him, has suddenly coll...

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Nov 16, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said...

The entire teaching of the body of scriptures called ‘Upanishad’ is regarding the kind of knowledge communicated into a mind, which is absolutely silent, absolutely quiet, so that it discovers the ...

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Nov 15, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said...

Since ‘It’ is infinite, whatever you seek cannot be confined to anything finite; and therefore, you cannot worship it exclusively from one point alone since it is multidimensional and therefore, ca...