Quotes by Sri M

“This (examination, to know thyself) is possible only in the midst of society. You cannot really study your mind – which is another word for know your Self - in isolation; sitting in a cave, because...”

“I am talking about what we think and how we act. If these two things can go together, then begins meditation. To not to bring about this dichotomy in one’s life, one has to be eternally watchful. I...”

“If we can become sensitive and look around and clear things up and get out of the mess, it is possible that we might, following different ways of thinking, tap the infinite potential that is impris...”

“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...”

“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...”