“I am saying, that in our minds, deep down in our minds if we would only be ready to peel off the outer layers of dust that have gathered. If only we are ready to reframe our thinking. If we are rea...”
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Quotes by Sri M
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“Life moves. The problem is, we would like to freeze it and hold on to it. It is not possible. You can freeze it for a while but it will break its dam and come out again and begin to flow.”
“We like to think of something as we want to think about it and not as it actually is; and what is it actually? Actually everything is in a flux. Everything is constantly changing and moving; perhap...”
“We all want to be happy, we all desire that which brings happiness to us. The only problem is we think it is going to be permanent. Although life’s experience speaks otherwise, you tend to believe ...”
“According to Vedanta, the entire Cosmos is a complete seamless, continuous unity, the one which contains within itself, in not manifest, but potential form, millions of actualisations of the univer...”
“A single understanding of something is a great detriment to the understanding of one’s self and the universe because the single vision becomes the fanatical vision. It has to move, change; it has t...”
“Self realisation is to understand oneself and in the process of understanding oneself, one has to break down innumerable illusions that we have created about ourselves.”
“Divine Love is to be understood through ordinary love. If you have a rough idea about ordinary Love, expand it to a thousand times and there you have divine Love, but selfless, utterly selfless and...”
“When a person is on the spiritual journey, he/she should not cry over what he/she loses because what he/she loses may be the stepping stone to what is going to be gained, which is communion with th...”
“A teacher should be a polished mirror – so that when you look you see your actual reflection, not some kind of a distorted image. If you see your real picture then only one can change- when one doe...”
“Whenever, a sincere student, a Satya Kama, one who searches for nothing but the Truth, sits in humility before a teacher, with his mind open and unprejudiced ready to receive that which is given, t...”
“The Upanishads go further: ‘nothing that you worship here is the ‘Supreme Being’! This is what the Keno Upanishad says: Yen manasa na manuta yena ahur mano matan tadeva Brahma twam viddhi nedam yad...”
“When the mind has almost ceased to move, when the mind remains in its original state of no action and no movement, absolutely still, then, something takes place, which we may call the understanding...”
“The moment I go deep into that, my capacity to break the bonds of what has been given to me from the past expands. I learn to break the fetters one by one. When I have gone deeper and deeper into t...”
“Your question, whether you need a teacher ? Yes. You would need a teacher. For anything you need a teacher. But the teacher should not become more important than the teaching. That is the danger al...”