Quotes by Sri M

“The ‘sukshma sharira’ - subtle body is much more beautiful, finer than the ‘sthula sharira’, gross body which you have.”

“Whatever potentialities that you have, whatever karmas that you performed, whatever likes and dislikes you have, most people don’t end their likes and dislikes by the time they die. It’s still ther...”

“The Gita says it beautifully saying, when the soul leaves the body and goes off carrying the seeds of it’s karmas like the wind carrying the fragrance of the flowers, you can’t see it, but it is th...”

“If you advance in your sadhana, you will come to a point where you will actually know that you are not this body.  ”

“The best thing would be to move forward in spiritual training or sadhana till we are in a position to see if we are something other than the body. If we are other than the body, then surely somewhe...”

“Shiva is a perfect example, perfect representation of a yogi. Which of the Gods sits cross legged with eyes closed but Shiva. So that meditative posture in which these two eyes are closed, which me...”

“The whole process of sublimating the lower to the higher is the meaning of ‘Shivaratri’. To free oneself from temptation, to be totally attached to the highest so when you touch that there is no mo...”

“Kashi is called the city of light. To see the light, first we need to decondition ourselves, free from all the preconceived ideas stuffed into us. Take it all out.  ”

“If this little ‘I’, when it completely disappears when it becomes the ‘I’ of the little child, then you’ll know what is ‘Turiya’. When we reach close to it, ‘you’ are not there anymore. There is on...”

“If you really want to have an anubhava (experience) of that Turiya, This little ‘I’, which says I am so and so, I am this, I know this, I don’t know this, I studied this, which also has attractions...”

“The recognition of Turiya is Self-recognition. It’s not as if a third party is recognized. In the state called Turiya, Turiya itself is the witness of itself. There is no other entity out there to ...”

“Suppose, in deep sleep, in the heavenly state of bliss, the mind wakes up as a witness and sees it. Normally it doesn’t. It remembers when you wake up. Suppose there is awareness of deep sleep. The...”

“Turiya seems to be the basis on which waking, dream and deep sleep play around. Turiya is the original background.”

“The most difficult thing about life, is that it is so difficult to say ‘I don’t know’. Unfortunately everybody knows now-a-days and there are more number of gurus than disciples now.”

“On the one hand there is this traditional thing of serving the teacher and being around. But I always keep reminding them that this is not so important. The most important thing is to listen to wha...”