Quotes by Sri M

“A person whose mind is completely and totally on the path, he will do only what is right and forget about the rest! But it is not so easy. It can come only with spiritual maturity.”

“Sometimes it is difficult for us to distinguish what is real and what is unreal. For that, we need maximum alertness, which develops as part of our sadhana.”

“Devotion is spontaneous. We can teach all the ways leading to it but what it is, can’t be taught. Suddenly, the seed sprouts; we don’t know how. It sprouts in different ways for different people.”

“If you want to be free of ignorance, you need knowledge. But once you are free, you have to throw both away. Don’t stick the thorn of knowledge into your foot and think ‘I know everything’.”

“Whatever be the activity you are involved in, don't forget to remember at least for a few minutes in the evening that there is a Supreme Reality behind the whole universe.”

“The most important thing to remember is kindness and compassion towards others.”

“In the pilgrimage of life, stick to the truth as far as possible.”

“We can go anywhere but we carry our mind with us. We can’t escape from the mind. So, face it, examine it, look at it and handle it. It’s only then you get over it.”

“Anyone who has touched the amrita, even a drop of it, or half a drop of it, becomes so intoxicated and filled with the joy of Shivam, that nothing else is an attraction to him.”

“Let us not think that we cannot do much – let us say, ‘let us do something,’ And that ‘something’ should start in here, in the heart.”

“Inner growth is reflected and is shown by the way we act and behave with people who are close to us – when we reflect this, not what we wish to project.”

“A spiritual being is one who keeps doing his work, not worrying too much about the results. You need to have a goal, but if it doesn't work, move forward, don’t hang on to that.”

“Every day is a new day. It's not as if you have discovered, and you're finished, and it's gone. Every day there is an unveiling happening and it happens in different ways.”

“The human brain somehow seems to be wired for spiritual experience. Certain centers in the brain become active when you are in deep meditation. These are the centers that yoga and Vedanta have talked about.”

“Can there be knowledge of that which ‘Is’? When we try to understand this with our conditioned brain, we gain the insight that all things one gathers in one’s head are a memory. And if it is a memory, it is something in the past, and if it is something in the past, it cannot be the reality that is always the present.”