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Jul 14, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said...

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...

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Jul 13, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said...

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...

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Jul 12, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said...

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...

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Jul 11, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said...

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...

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Jul 10, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said ...

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...

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Jul 09, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said...

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...

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Jul 08, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said…

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...

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Jul 07, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said...

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....

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Jul 06, 2015 Quotations

Sri M said...

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...