Quotes by Sri M

“By experiencing life through the sorrows, the pleasures, the pains and the happiness, one evolves into a better and cleaner entity before touching a level that cannot be called human, but divine.”

“According to the Vedantic teaching or according to what Ramana Maharishi said (who, I think, was one of the latest teachers of ‘Vedanta’ with a genuine experience of it), “When you pursue this 'try...”

“So, it is in itself a contradiction for the limited to seek the unlimited. For the limited to understand its limitations, intelligence is required. That’s all. Need not be intellect. When the limit...”

“If what we think and how we act can go together, then meditation begins. To not bring about this dichotomy in one’s life, one has to be eternally watchful. It means, as you go about your life, a pa...”

“‘Viveka’ means ‘intelligence’; the reasoning and effort to understand what is permanent and what is not. And ‘Vichara’ is ‘thinking about it’; if this is not permanent, then what is permanent? Or t...”

“The ‘One’ who is behind all thought and action is witness to everything — the unaffected witness to all that takes place. The ‘One’ cannot be reached, by any of our known modes of communication.”

“A spiritual teacher need not necessarily be someone who lives in the Himalayas for hundreds of years. He may be living in your outhouse, your backyard or your kitchen garden. There are hundreds of ...”

“Can the Truth be found through the mind ? Vedanta says, “Well! All that the mind can do is conceive of it or try to conceive it. It can have an idea, a faint idea of it. Beyond that, even the mind ...”

“Satsang is very important; you become according to the company you keep. If you live with people who talk of the Truth, who do japa, kirtan and bhajan, then you become like them in a short while. I...”

“Here was a prime example of a manifestation of the Supreme Being, in the form of a poor ‘Fakir’. For all intents and purposes, he appeared as a poor Fakir, and taught the unity of not only Vedanta ...”

“If you read from any of the Upanishads and commentaries by Shankara and others, you find that while the intellect is a very powerful and useful weapon for us I mean this is an instrument for us. Th...”

“Don’t we look at ourselves and see how we are always occupied with ourselves? Spend some time to look at others, maybe half an hour. When we can look at others, we are progressing in our outlook.”

“We discussed the meaning of the word Upanishad. It is that which is learnt sitting close to the teacher with complete humility in order to understand the ultimate supreme truth. So the Gita itself ...”

“It is only when you come to a situation where you are face to face with sorrow that you stop and look at that which is beyond. If you are always happy, if you always get a lollipop to suck—which is...”

“A coiled snake has been the symbol of Kundalini for hundreds of years. It is so because it is also the symbol of wisdom. It is the symbol that you find on the headdress of pharaohs, for instance, o...”