Quotes by Sri M

“Any place, where the truth is worshipped, is a temple for us. The most important temple is the body. Inside us is the heart where the Truth sits.”

“The greatest miracle is to bring about a transformation in thinking, to turn inward, and try to figure out what life is all about.  What is our link with life?   What is life itself?    Whether I a...”

“What is spirituality?  It is to find the truth, to find yourself, to find who you are, and what your link with Supreme Being is.”

“We carry so many things in our head.  Be simple.  Throw off the burdens and be free!”

“It’s more important to understand the teachings than to worship the teacher.  The sacred is always around us and in our hearts.”

“Surrender means to understand that I am helpless at a certain point and, therefore, I need to relax, let go, be patient, and wait. In that waiting, something arrives. The breeze may be from within.”

“We can’t live on our past heritage alone; we must look at the now.  The entire spiritual movement, scientific progress, is based on the understanding that ‘I don’t know’.”

“Any pleasures of the senses will always have some pain behind it. The greatest pain is to lose the pleasure we are enjoying.”

“I think all the sadhana we do is intended to mostly bring about the hunger for God – for that Truth. When that hunger has built up, then God is at your doorstep!”

“Living in this world and experiencing life, I would say is the philosopher’s stone, which eventually can purify you from base metal to pure gold.  ”

“I am not denying that we need a rational mind to find this realization.  The rational mind has to understand that there is only a limit to which it can go and after that, it has to stop and become ...”

“Babaji used to say, ‘The seeds have been planted, they have been sown but no seed will become a tree and bear fruit in three days, it takes its own time’.  So sow the seed, keep the climate clear, ...”

“The secret of visualization – creative thought, is to actually believe and picture it as one wants, as if already there. When the mind is open and when there is a great desire to achieve something ...”

“Don’t run away from the battle. Stay there and fight it out – but with love, affection, and understanding.”

“In this material world – earning one’s living, going through all the problems and travails of worldly, mundane existence is a necessary step in learning about spiritual consciousness and evolution ...”