Quotes by Sri M

“If you think of the thought process, you will realize when one thought is gone there is a gap before the next one rises. If this gap is not thought, it has to be something else. That something else...”

“When we have to go to the core of our consciousness, we have to keep all these thoughts at bay. Keep them away, go deep within and try to find out. Nothing should be allowed to intrude. A great mas...”

“When Patanjali defines yoga in the yoga sutras, he defines it as ‘yogas chitta vritti nirodha’ which means yoga is the stopping or the stilling of the ‘vrittis’ of the ‘chitta’. ‘Chitta’ means mind...”

“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 seemingly, but it will break its dam and begin to flow again.”

“Any pleasures of the senses will always have some pain attached to it. The greatest pain is to lose the pleasure that you are enjoying.”

“Love is the essence of religion; for it’s religion that teaches ethics, concern and compassion for others.”

“When I am clear, when I have no single thought touching my mind, when I can control what thought I want, that is not fantasizing. Fantasizing means replacing reality with something unreal. Here, in...”

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

“'Gyana' means knowledge. ‘Vignana’, according to Bhagwad Gita, is that knowledge which when understood leaves nothing more to be understood.”

“Consciousness is that from which thought arises but normally, it is haphazard. When you have the discipline to practice and go deep within to find the consciousness from which the thought arises, t...”

“We all know we are the body, we think and then we begin to realise slowly that “I cannot be the body because the body belongs to me and what belongs to me cannot be I. This is not I. Now it is I, n...”

“The ‘taught’ is listening and the teacher is teaching. A stage comes where they so intimately understand each other that the ‘taught’ becomes the teacher in turn. One who is taught becomes the teac...”

“As you sit and watch the thoughts, as in thought watching thought, one thought comes up which then becomes a chain. Here, use your thought itself as a weapon, think that you, with your mind, have m...”

“Vedanta says: when the mind understands its inability to reach out and find it, it finally rests or lets go; it surrenders, becomes still and quiet naturally, not forcibly. Then, when the mind and ...”

“Blankness is very frightful for us. This is so because the mind thinks it will lose its hold, that we will soon be free of it. It is the tendency of the mind to bind and when we are shaking ourselv...”