Quotes by Sri M

“What I am saying is that there is nothing to fear. To live with this understanding is what is called holistic living. It is to live with the understanding that the entire universe is pervaded by th...”

“The world is such a funny place – you try to chase something and it always seems to run away from you…you leave it and it tries to follow you! It happens. Vishwamitra goes off to the forest for tap...”

“‘That which does not move’ – is that which is absolutely still like the eye of the cyclone, total motion but in the middle there is no movement – absolute calmness. And, it is from that calmness th...”

“Plato has said it brilliantly. He says ‘there are two eternal things in this universe– one ‘Is’ and is never becoming and the other ‘is not’ but is ever becoming’. That ‘becoming’ is what is known ...”

“You must have heard the famous statement that many people think is a modern English saying – 'blind leading the blind’. It is an ancient statement. It comes from the Mundaka Upanishad – ‘andhenaiva...”

“As long as you have a physical body, nobody can know everything. We need to learn. At any time, one should be prepared to learn. For learning deep things like the Upanishads – one needs to have the...”

“The avadhoot Dattatreya had twenty-four teachers in his life, and one of them was the honey–bee. The Avadhoot says, I learnt the lesson from the honeybee, collecting and storing for a rainy day; ho...”

“The meaning that Adi Shankaracharya has given for ‘shad’ in the word ‘Upanishad’ is ‘to shake up’ – shake the mind out of its delusion that happiness is outside and not inside. Of course in the ult...”

“When all the ‘maya‘ or delusion has been cleared and when all the agitations of the mind are cleared, then only the true essence is left behind. What remains is complete happiness, the Truth, known...”

“Shruti means shrotrasya – ‘that which is heard’, not ‘that which is read’. So ‘hearing’ meaning ‘listening’ is an important part of the Upanishad. And, if the mind is open and clear and not compari...”

“When I eat a fruit – it’s only when the sense organ comes into contact with the fruit, that I enjoy the taste of it. But that enjoyment is not in the fruit – it is in me. I am the one who is enjoyi...”

“The rishis–seeing how people are constantly unhappy; seeking all the time and not getting the ultimate fulfillment – discovered that there is happiness, a complete fulfillment available to every hu...”

“The most important thing for a human being, I believe, is not to cause pain to other human beings. In the Bhagvad Gita, Chapter Twelve, ‘Bhakti Yoga’, Krishna tells Arjuna that one of the most impo...”

“‘Shakti’ or Energy operates within seven centers in the human psyche. It starts with the lowest one at the end of the spine called the Muladhara Chakra, and goes up through to the other six centers...”

“In a Chakra, the Cosmic Energy operates in ‘circles’ or ‘whirls’ at certain points of the human organism. Hence, it is called a Chakra. It is also called a padma meaning a ‘lotus’ – an ancient symb...”