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Jan 26, 2024 Quotations

Sri M said....

If you change the attitude of your mind, there is tremendous energy which can be used for good. We don’t allow that tremendous energy to come, by limiting our mind and allowing it to be distracted....

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Jan 25, 2024 Quotations

Sri M said...

Through Yoga, you learn how to calm and quiet your mind and how to balance  energies in your system. When there is perfect balance and the mind is quiet and calm,  one understands the essence of on...

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Jan 24, 2024 Quotations

Sri M said...

In Chandogya Upanishad, the Rishi asks his son when he returns home after his formal education with another Rishi, ‘Have you found the truth?’  The son says ‘I think I have’. To this the fathe...

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Jan 23, 2024 Quotations

Sri M said....

The main qualities that develop in one who has taken to spiritual sadhana is that in time,  distractions become less when you meditate on your deity or inner self. The person also begins to have  b...

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Jan 22, 2024 Quotations

Sri M said...

When one realizes the impermanence of life and begins to wonder if there is anything permanent at all, the rishis step in and say ‘There is something permanent and That is You.  You don’t have to s...

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Jan 20, 2024 Quotations

Sri M said...

Ultimate completeness and happiness or satisfaction can never be achieved as long as the senses are looking for it outside.  Only if you turn inwards, perhaps you will hit upon the source.

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Jan 19, 2024 Quotations

Sri M said...

The whole movement of life and evolution is how to become complete. Why? Because even though we don't realize it, at the back of our mind, we know we have come from that which is complete. So, in e...

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Jan 18, 2024 Quotations

Sri M said...

Everybody is not interested in spiritual practice. You are trying to swim against the stream, it's not a joke. Others who don’t want to dare that, will say this is foolish, it is not going to happe...