Quotes by Sri M

“Krishna is depicted mostly with a flute in his hand, playing beautiful music. Music penetrates the heart. When you listen to music in rapt attention, you go so deep that you begin to hear the inner...”

“The most important thing for a human being, I believe, is not to cause pain to other human beings. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna tells Arjuna that one of the most important qualities of my bhakta, ...”

“Krishna represents love. Love is a comprehensive panacea for all ills. If you really understand the meaning of it – utter selflessness, not love for my own sake but love for Love’s sake – only then...”

“Life moves. The problem is we would like to freeze it and hold on to it. It is not possible. You can freeze it for a while, seemingly, but it will break its dam and begin to flow again.”

“If we can voluntarily extricate ourselves from the conditioning thoughts that are in our minds and open up for receiving what is beyond the three dimensional world and the ordinary way of thinking,...”

“In matters of inner exploration, the most important thing is to keep your slate clean.”

“During meditation, it is impossible to control your thoughts and make them disappear. Because the moment you try to make them disappear, you are thinking.”

“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.”

“To enquire about the Absolute, you should have freedom from the very beginning. It doesn't come at the end. If you can enquire in freedom, then you will end up in freedom. If you enquire in bondage...”

“Nirvana is not a state where you are in a trance all the time. Nirvana is when you are free while you are eating, drinking, talking, but you don't have any pretensions, when you don't have anything...”

“It is when the inner being becomes happy, that the world becomes full of joy for us. Every little thing, though previously unnoticed, begins to impart a superior joy.”

“Everything that exists in this world is constantly in motion. What is here today is not here tomorrow. Nothing that keeps changing and is temporary can be real. Reality is permanent, eternal. The o...”

“There is no human being who can live without an attachment. However, when you get more attached to your inner reality, you get more detached from the outer realities. The inner becomes more importa...”

“As long as ‘I am' there, there is no That. When That is there, ‘I am' is not. Therefore, there are no 'two' anymore but only one.”

“All the great sages who have gone deep into the question, "Who am I?" have found that as they begin to enquire into the origin of the l', the little, limited I', with which most people identify the...”