Quotes by Sri M

“If Shiva doesn’t do his ‘Tandava nritya’, then the images, shapes, and forms will not shatter and you will never see the reality behind them.”

“Understand yourself. Everything that you need is in you. There is nothing outside. Be independent and wherever possible, be kind to others.”

“We think that we are in charge of everything that is happening in this world yet we are not even in charge of anything that is happening in our body.”

“Sleep is when we are back to our original essence. The inner ‘me’ is there. You’ll say, ‘But I’m not aware of it.’ There we have shed everything, all individuality and we are what we actually are, ...”

“Once someone has drunk the wine of ‘fanaa’, not complete annihilation, but the annihilation of the ego, the small self, then only the big Self is visible to us.”

“‘Ishq’ means the ecstasy or ‘lahiri’ induced in the hearts of the devotees and the Yogis. Real Ishq is enjoying ecstasy, the lahiri of being completely one with the Inner Being which is a spark of ...”

“If you have touched the source of the fountain, you’ve touched the foundation of joy, does it matter if somebody is ignoring you or saying that you are a fool? So what!”

“Once your mind is fully absorbed, where even you don’t exist except That, there is no better well being than That. And that well-being reflects itself in daily activities, in our behaviour.”

“If you begin in earnest, then you will surely find well-being. The Ultimate well being is when the mind is quiet and calm and is resting on the Supreme Being whose very essence is Sat-Chit-Ananda, ...”

“Dharana is to develop the capacity of one-pointed attention. When the Dharana continues for some time without interruption, then it automatically becomes Dhyana or meditation.”

“  Pratyahara is the capacity, developed through practice, by which you can shift your mind from one thing to another at short notice.”

“If your mood is reflected in the pattern of your breathing, can we turn it around and adjust the pattern of our breathing so that our moods are altered? From this came the entire science of Pranayama.”

“Treat all human beings the same way, no matter how they dress, how they are. Spend some time meditating on your Inner Self and little by little one day you will touch the source of well -being whic...”

“To practice Yoga and to make your mind quiet, calm and without ripples, you should live a life of moderation. Don’t go to extremes. If you completely don’t eat food, you can’t meditate. And if you ...”

“Yoga is getting rid of all the distractions of the mind. When all the distractions of the mind are gone, then it becomes beautiful like a pond which has no ripples and in that you can see the refle...”