Quotes by Sri M

“‘What is!’, nobody knows or nobody can know because the senses, the sensory organs or the sensory instruments which are used to know an object are themselves imperfect and relative and, therefore, ...”

“Can the Truth be found through the mind? Vedanta says ‘Well! All that the mind can do is conceive of it or try to conceive it. It can have an idea, a faint idea of it. Beyond that, even the mind fa...”

“Vedanta says ‘yes the object exists, of course, but it may not be a cube or a globe or a cone or a rectangle or what you think it is because whatever you think, it is always the result of your rela...”

“Suppose our instrument of perception, in this case the eye, is made like a telescope or a microscope, our view of the universe would be entirely different. The cube that you see before you will be ...”

“Look carefully, observantly, at the outside world, the physical world, the substance, setting aside all other preconceived ideas about it that we have, at what we think is substance, according to t...”

“The best sign of your progressing in your meditation is something which is very self-evident. Nobody has to tell you what’s happening. First is the experience of great bliss; the second is the actu...”

“So, when I sit alone, I am disturbed by various thoughts because most other people are thinking about something else. They are thinking about the world; they are thinking about different things – s...”

“‘Viveka’ means ‘intelligence’ – reasoning and trying to understand, what is permanent, and what is not permanent. And ‘Vichara’ is ‘thinking about it’ – if this is not permanent, then what is perma...”

“The Mahanirvana Tantra says, ‘Anantam Anandam Brahma’, which means ‘that Anandam which has no Antah, no end, is Brahman. And that comes about only when the thoughts have ceased, which means, the wh...”

“In Vedanta, what the Vedantist does, is to examine the world around him and find out that it is impermanent. He says, ” This world is impermanent because today it’s here and tomorrow it is gone. Al...”

“Have you opened your window and by accident, suddenly noticed a full moon – a beautiful night – and for a few seconds, you forget everything except the moon? You did not exist for the time being, t...”

“Sometimes, what you think is misfortune is ‘fortune’ which comes in the garb of misfortune. Only then, you begin to think seriously, “Where am I going?” ” What am I doing?” So, that’s another reaso...”

“So, all this fear of what will happen if I let go of my petty little self with its petty little world (mainly of my own creation) is meaningless. It is merely the ignorant little ego trying to make...”

“When I’m enjoying something, even then there is a hidden element of unhappiness there, because I’m afraid that the thing which I am enjoying might go off at any moment. If I have common sense, I mu...”

“To be truthful, there is really no little self. All the great sages who have gone deep into the question “Who am I?” have discovered that, as they begin to enquire into the origin of the ‘I’, the l...”