“We are saying, “Can our sundown be in the name of God? Can we have that special whisky which is not available even in Scotland? Can we listen to that music which moves our hearts and opens the door...”
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Quotes by Sri M
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“Most of the activities of the world that we perform, based on the assumption that we are the body, binds us down to the earth. Karma Yoga is the theory or teaching that says that if you can act kno...”
“If you have faith in an infinite Supreme Being, put all your heart into what you want to do or what you want to achieve and pray hard. But pray with great feeling. The emotions help to keep our goa...”
“When we are faced with situations, we prefer to run away from them and not face them. Face your situations, stay where you are, see how you react with others and how others react with you.”
“Suppose, you have examined and found that there are a lot of things to be improved in yourself. The first step is to try moving in the positive direction; the other step is to do your ‘Sadhana’ ser...”
“Let Go! Upanishads have a beautiful saying ‘Tena tyaktena bhunjitha.’ Let go and rejoice! Normally when you say rejoice, our idea is that we have to gather things together. Here it is a completely ...”
“If you have a slate, every time you write on it, you have to rub it off to write anything else: otherwise, if you overwrite, you can neither read it, nor is there any space to do more writing. So, ...”
“All of us are deities. There is not one who is not, whether we realize it or not. This is why when you have touched the inner realm, even a little bit, you can never despise or consider anybody lower.”
“Practitioners of spiritual exercises should keep in mind that when you practice and go deeper and deeper, all the tendencies that are hidden in your subconscious mind would surface. This is the poi...”
“I may know many things but if I don’t act upon this knowledge, it makes no sense either to me, or to others. So the next chapter in Bhagwad Gita (after Sankhya Yoga, the yoga of knowledge) is Karma...”
“For a spiritual search, you need not belong to any particular sect. It is an individual and personal effort. There is no need to be affiliated to anything but to be free from it all. Nobody becomes...”
“The Mahanirvana Tantra says, ‘Anantam Anandam Brahma’ which means ‘that Anandam which has no Antah (no end) is Brahman’. And that comes about only when the thoughts have ceased, which means, the wh...”
“There is an ancient ‘shloka’ which is chanted before starting various activities. It is interesting to learn the meaning of ‘sahanaubhunakthu, sahaviryam karavavivahe. Tejasvi naavinavaditam astu, ...”
“Great literature, sublime poetry, and exquisite works of art—they have been inspired by love and compassion. It is unselfish love for humanity, which is the culmination and the highest point that l...”
“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...”