“‘Atman’ or the real self – this center of our consciousness can’t be exclusive to anybody. All human beings have it deep down and that is the true consciousness. The process of finding it is known ...”
The Satsang Foundation
Quotes by Sri M
Receive Sri M's quotes every morning in regional languages on our Telegram Channel.
“There is a beautiful word in Sanskrit for completeness – ‘Poorna’. Upanishads mentions ‘Poorna’ – which means fulfillment, fullness, completeness. This is the essential characteristic of one’s bein...”
“Every little thing is full of joy. The dew drop you find on the grass in the morning, the breeze that blows in quietly bringing in the perfume of the jasmine, the smell of the earth after the first...”
“The Upanishads and the Vedas suggest that there is a way to find lasting happiness within, which is independent of all external things. The great sages who have experienced it are on record saying ...”
“I am not saying that we should not enjoy the little joys that we find in life day-to-day. Please do it. We should because that’s the greatest, most wonderful thing that the world can offer us. Thes...”
“We don’t find real happiness because we are not satisfied ever with anything that we have. Maybe there is satisfaction for a short time but, in the long run, we are still looking, searching, someti...”
“What is love really, in that sense of the term? It is separation. When your beloved is with you, then what is love? When your beloved is not there, and the mind pines with longing, it is called lov...”
“Everybody says, ‘I have surrendered.’ Nobody has truly surrendered. To surrender, really, is not easy. If I surrender, it means to firstly consider what am I surrendering to? Who am I surrendering ...”
“First, I must say, ‘I cannot understand’. Then, what happens here is the same thing comes into the picture – that ‘stillness’, that ‘emptiness’ – because I am not doing anything; because I have giv...”
“All the knowledge I have gathered is confined to my mind and my brain, which can conk off at any time. You know it. One part of the brain malfunctions and one function is immediately impaired. I do...”
“When we go to a temple, we see the image there. I go down there, and I worship. I bow my head down and I fall flat worshipping. After that, I come out. What do I do next? I see a human being – a go...”
“When Jesus said, ‘Empty yourself’, I think what he meant was that we are mentally constipated. It is all the stuff that is ingested and is not being expelled. So, what he meant to say is, ‘Take it ...”
“For most of us, when we sit down and try to meditate, the mind wanders mainly because we are attracted to something or we are repulsed by something. If this had been settled in some way by understa...”
“The ‘emptiness’ that I mean is the stillness which comes when the mind is not distracted, when there is no distraction of running up and down and going here and there.”
“‘Emptying myself’ means to meet people, to see people, to react to situations every day in life situations without the heavy load of prejudices. This is what emptying means. And, also, to continue ...”