Quotes by Sri M

“If one understands that one is not the body but the inner self which is consciousness, then one begins to understand how to deal with sorrow.”

“Our entire life is sadhana – how we approach it, how we manage it, how we are moving towards our goal – this is sadhana.”

“Sit down and meditate in your heart center and whenever such thoughts come which are not related to the inner, try to keep them away.”

“Do your duties but don’t neglect your spiritual journey. Keep up your duties seriously, so that when you are mature enough, you are out of it.  ”

“True consciousness means to go beyond all images. Not images that you see around you but the images that we build up in our minds. It is because of these images that we get hurt, our ego goes up an...”

“Shraddha  has several meanings but one of the meanings is complete attention - total one-pointed attention.”

“As your feelings become more and more subtle, deeper centers of the human mind open up to form a link to that which is beyond the ordinary mind.”

“The first thing that happens as one advances in sadhana is that one develops compassion in the heart.”

“If acute desire to be free of suffering arises in a human mind, that mind need not be extraordinarily intellectual. It can be just an ordinary person with that desire; then one can completely direc...”

“Love is the essence of religion for it is a religion that teaches us ethics, concern, and compassion.”

“ I can physically run away from my situation but I can’t run away from my mind as the mind follows me, wherever I go. So stay where you are and deal with the situation.”

“The Upanishads have described the spiritual path as shurasya dhaara, it is like walking on the ‘edge of a razor’.  It is dangerous and difficult. You can fall or get cut. The sadhak has to be very ...”

“When the third eye or the agna chakra is activated and the kundalini energy reaches the agna, the mind understands the reality behind all illusion. Then all illusions are burnt to ashes and this is...”

“When the mind churns in meditation, which means, when you delve deeper and deeper into the layers of your mind, the first thing that comes out is not Amrit or nectar but poison because that’s the o...”

“Energy – once its work of creation, preservation, and destruction is done – still remains whole. The whole Cosmos is spun out of this energy or Shakti, which keeps working tirelessly and yet remain...”