Quotes by Sri M

“If you are with a genuine teacher, even if you don’t speak and there are no words exchanged. It’s possible that you’ll get something if your minds are in close contact, not only physical. It’s usua...”

“Praise and flattery can actually retard your progress while somebody who says ‘Hey! You are not doing it right’. It’s a good thing for you. Consider it as a teaching and don’t consider it as someth...”

“The word yogi can be substituted for an ideal human being. The perfect yogi is one who doesn’t live on this earth worrying about what others think about them. In fact for the Yogi, insult and prais...”

“The Yogi is able to navigate because he has an anchor which he can drop when he wants and pull it out when he wants. The art of actually negotiating life is Karma Yoga.”

“Yogi means one who can live in this world intelligently. A Karma Yogi is one who can navigate himself in this world where sometimes the currents are rough and sometimes they are smooth.”

“Can we live without depending on what others say? Who cares what others say. Let’s do what we have to do. Because otherwise you can’t move forward in this world.”

“Instead of competition and wondering and wasting time on what happens if the other guy does better than me, fix your attention on what you are doing. It’ll turn out to be good.”

“Do your work to perfection. Don’t worry about what other people are evaluating.”

“  What is it that we seek? Why are we constantly seeking to better one thing after another? Because, we are hoping that ‘if I add something I might become happier’. But, we know, we can see in...”

“What bars us from finding ‘That’ is too much knowledge, too much ego, too much feeling that ‘I know’. Nobody is ready to say ‘I don’t know’. In fact, in the present circumstances, there are more gu...”

“Sometimes things happen more through understanding and contact, than through words.”

“The only way to deal with it on a permanent basis is to come face to face with sadness. When you come face to face with it, you will see that it has lost its sting. Then, sadness becomes your frien...”

“If you don’t like to enjoy sadness, sometimes you need to survive. So it’s good to sweep it under the rug for some time.  But always pick up the rug and see where it is so that you can deal with it...”

“The root of sadness is that we are not complete, that we are missing something. We feel empty, we feel rejected, therefore we feel dejected. We feel loss of trust all around. We thought ‘this is li...”

“What we usually do when we are sad is to bring on some entertainment so that we are free of it. But that is like sweeping the sadness under the rug. Well, it might be required sometimes, like when ...”