Quotes by Sri M

“Does freedom happen in stages? I would say, It’s like the wheel; the network of illusion is gradually lifted as one goes deeper and deeper into understanding one’s own self, one’s own mind.”

“Don’t unnecessarily complicate life with too many things. That does not mean that when you speak the truth you have to be blunt. There are sweet ways of speaking the truth.”

“You have a slate and you write on it.  Every time you write on it, if you want to write anything else, you have to rub it off.  So in matters of inner exploration, the most important thing is to ke...”

“All things about spiritual matters boil down to your relationships, day to day.  We can sit at home and meditate for hours but when we come out and we are still the same, it does not work.”

“When the mind is open, and when there is the great desire to achieve something then the channels for achieving it are opened.”

“If you have faith in an infinite Supreme Being, put all your heart into what you want to do or achieve.  ”

“True consciousness means to go beyond all images. Not images that you see around you but ones that we build up in our minds. It is because of these that we get hurt, our ego goes up and we have all...”

“As your feelings become more and more subtle, deeper centers of the human mind open up to form a link to that which is beyond the ordinary mind.”

“If acute desire to be free of suffering arises in a human mind, that mind need not be extraordinarily intellectual. It can be just an ordinary person with that desire; then one can completely direc...”

“When the third eye or the ajna chakra is activated and the kundalini energy reaches the ajna, the mind understands the reality behind all illusion. Then all illusions are burnt to ashes and this is...”

“Kriya Yoga is a technique or a method by which step by step you can divert your mind from distractions, bring them to one place and take it straight to the higher levels of understanding.”

“Deep sleep, Sushupti  is a state of sleep where there are no dreams. It may be very short. It is in this state that you actually recover and rejuvenate. This is because there is no inner cognition ...”

“The witness is the same. The states keep changing. So the only reality is the witness and not the states that keep changing and that reality is your true being. ”

“OM is pure sound, pranava. It is called pranava because it is life-giving, prana. It gives you the first incentive of life. It is the beginning of all life.  ”

“When the mind is free of distractions, absolutely silent, it becomes like a mirror that reflects only the Atman. You may also call it Purusha, in the language of the Yoga Darshana.”