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The Walk of Hope 2015-16 team members at Kollam have come together to help create a small library on spirituality, by donating 17 significant publications on the subject to the Araya Seva Samajam a...
The relationship between the teacher and the taught — first of all, when a person begins to look for a spiritual teacher, there are certain things to be very careful about. One, I have already ment...
My Master (Babaji) once told me a story about three people who went to Himalayas to meditate. They went up the snow-clad Himalayas, sat down and meditated. After a year, one of them opened his eyes...
In the Gita, there is an exhortation to perform action and not to run away from it. It is not that one becomes inactive. On acts but one is not caught by the results of the activity. This is ‘karma...
Sri M says, "There are some laws of nature which most people do not know and a yogi knows those laws and knows how to operate them." There is nothing on this earth that donot follow some law. When ...
If one understands that one is not the body but rather the inner-self that is consciousness, then one begins to understand how to deal with sorrow. But, unless sorrow comes, one does not realize th...
The ‘taught’ is listening and the teacher is teaching. A stage comes where they so intimately understand each other that the ‘taught’ becomes the teacher in turn. One who is taught becomes the teac...
From the point of view of spiritual evolution, the greatest duty of an intelligent human being is to find the Truth. And, religions have made the duties of a human being so that we may stay togethe...
The ‘sadhak’ has to be very careful. I’m not trying to frighten anybody away from the spiritual path. The Upanishads have described the spiritual path as ‘Shurasya dhaara’—meaning it’s like walking...
"Most prejudices are also language-oriented," Sri M puts forth an interesting perspective on the concept of "thought", which is the focus of the latter part of the Retreat at Pulicherla, 2004. Watc...
The spiritual path nearly always, except in cases of certain gifted individuals who have been born with spiritual faculties, requires a guide because we are largely walking on unexplored territory....
The few, who with their great devotion and good deeds become recipients of divine grace, free themselves from likes and dislikes, the opposites of attachment and aversion. They, with their purified...