Quotes by Sri M

“When all the vrittis of the mind are completely removed, then what remains is a state that is very clear. You reach the essence of your being, and see the witness that witnesses everything but is n...”

“Everybody likes to enjoy themselves. But we think that enjoyment comes only from outside. It is within, self-sufficient bliss which is called Satchitananda in the Vedanta.”

“Sleep is a great equalizer. We feel rejuvenated after a good night's sleep because we are not aware that we exist. Only when I am aware that I exist, do I have the problems. I am bound, I want to b...”

“Truth is Truth, doesn't matter where it comes from. The appearance of the teacher is not important. What is being taught is more important.”

“Shake up your ordinary process of thinking and say, maybe there is something here which you seek, but only when all seeking stops, it is there. When all movement of the mind reaching out ends, then...”

“If that Truth is there and I am here, I need to go towards it. But what we are looking for is here, there and everywhere. Tad dure tad vadantike - It's far and yet so near. Isha vasyam idam sarvam....”

“You can only go as close as possible to the Truth. You cannot become the Truth, because as long as ‘you’ are there, there is no Truth. When ‘I am’ is gone, there is the Truth. ‘I’ is burnt off like...”

“ Upanishads are also called Aranayakas. End of the other portions of the Veda. The Sanskrit word for end is Anta. So they are known as Veda-Anta. When the Truths of the Upanishads are understood, i...”

“If you want something which gives you complete satisfaction and fulfillment, no matter what you have or what you don't have in the external world, then you are seeking the Truth. And once it is tou...”

“Why do we want to learn a technique or a mantra or want to be initiated into spiritual practice? What are we seeking? What is it that is within us that seeks to fulfill itself? So it must be that w...”

“Love is not something that exists only when the body exists. The body has to go inevitably. But love is an immaterial thing that is a part of our soul which never dies even when the body dies. If y...”

“On the spiritual journey, adopt all methods possible so that you don't fall off from the path and continue to stick to that no matter what temptations and what troubles come to you. But please don'...”

“The spiritual seeker is one who persists, so we have to persist. ”

“All human beings have some problems. But if you are spiritual, you also get the energy and the perseverance to go through them and come out unscathed.”

“The purpose of life is not merely to make money or to build houses. It is to find true happiness. Once you start pursuing the spiritual and you begin to feel happiness in the inner then all the out...”