Quotes by Sri M

“Perhaps the only way to get the mind free from the trappings of the material world is to live in the midst of it, get guidance from the teacher, and come to terms with the world so that one may tra...”

“Dependence of the Guru alone could be an obstacle and one has to be very careful about. A genuine teacher never wants you to be dependent on him. ”

“Most of the activities of the world that we perform, based on the assumption that we are the body, bind us down to the earth. Karma Yoga is the theory or teaching which says, that if you can act kn...”

“Be a bhakta more than anything else because through bhakti all jnana will dawn. ”

“The root of sorrow is the wrong identity. One thinks one is the body. And being body oriented, one gets all the sorrows. One experiences sorrows because anything that happens to the body and anythi...”

“Bhajans, kirtan , going to places where people worship and going on pilgrimages lead you to the stimulation of the emotional parts of your minds, for opening up centers that you can experience.”

“Can our ‘sundown’ be the name of God? Can we listen to that music which moves our hearts and opens the doors to extra sensory perceptions? I am not talking about powers. There are centers in the hu...”

“Naama Smarana is one of the easiest and the best. Along with that you should also take care of other aspects of life, little disciplines that one should follow. The most important root discipline f...”

“The Divine can never sleep. In the Quran, there is a beautiful verse  – ‘He’ is called ‘the Sleepless One’ because if he falls asleep, the whole world will collapse.”

“How can our brain be absolutely quiet? Only when there are no distractions whatsoever, no contradictions pulling on either side. When the brain is absolutely calm, then there is something which is ...”

“When the mind is absolutely quiet and tranquil, it becomes the tarmac from which you can take off to regions which are outside of our ordinary brain.  ”

“The science of yoga is that which can deliberately change your brain’s chemical composition. Once it has changed, you can probably explore and go beyond it. It's to free yourself from the limitatio...”

“No new thing has been found without somebody asking — is this possible? Even scientific discoveries have happened because some people were sceptical about what they thought was real and said — no, ...”

“It's the nature of the world that it protects you as long as you are not mature, like a baby in the womb. And once you are mature, the same muscles push you out. So, don't worry. Thank the world fo...”

“On the spiritual path, it's not so easy to fit in but then you can't totally break free from the world. You stay with it until you become really mature in your spiritual field. Then you have to do ...”