Quotes by Sri M

“Best ‘satsang’ is to do meditation and ‘japa’, visit temples and holy places. But the mind still asks questions; so we have to try and answer those questions intellectually.”

“Based on what I have learnt from my experience, suddenly everything grinds to a halt and there is a blank; my suggestion is that, don’t try to escape or run away from it. That is our primordial sta...”

“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 re...”

“Perception is always relative. It’s comparative. You can only compare. There is no absolute perception.”

“It is, in that utter stillness, the Truth comes into being. One understands one’s true reality. It is as if all the impurities, or all the agitations, or all the modifications of the mind have been...”

“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 ...”

“The most important kind of meditation is when a human being, one day, realises that the whole circus that is going on around him, this whole world that he has built up around him, has suddenly coll...”

“The entire teaching of the body of scriptures called ‘Upanishad’ is regarding the kind of knowledge communicated into a mind, which is absolutely silent, absolutely quiet, so that it discovers the ...”

“Since ‘It’ is infinite, whatever you seek cannot be confined to anything finite; and therefore, you cannot worship it exclusively from one point alone since it is multidimensional and therefore, ca...”

“When the mind has completely emptied itself, when the mind has ceased to move, when the mind remains in its original state of no action and movement, absolutely still, then something takes place wh...”

“An old proverb says: Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and lean not unto your own understanding. In all thy ways, acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths, for thou have little understanding.”

“The movement of life, the ever-expanding quality of life is Brahman. The Supreme Reality, which, if you break your illusions and look at freely, is part of you just as much as you are part of it. I...”

“We like to think of something the way we prefer it to be and not as it actually is. And, what is it actually? Essentially, everything is in a flux. Everything is constantly changing and moving; the...”

“You can enjoy the whole phenomenon of how hope works, how illusion comes and how it is all one big drama. Vedanta says—we are searching for this drama’s director, who has all these actors lined up,...”

“One of the greatest illusions that a human has is the hope that everything is everlasting; that, we are going to be like this forever, even in simple things.”